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Empathy | Your Child’s Most Important Gift

Meghan Phillips, child empathy, photography by Peechaya Burroughs
Photograph by Peechaya Burroughs

Child empathy is a critical construct for parenting. Instilling empathy in our children requires intention and awareness, but can be fun for both parties, and can produce happy young citizens.

I spent the latter part of my 30s searching for my purpose and the answer to the question, “Why was I put on this earth?” At the time, I was recently divorced and trying to raise my two little kids as a single, working, divorced mother. I wasn’t feeling joy. I wasn’t feelingand something had to give. I started reading all the self-improvement books I could get my hands on, because feeling like I was feeling wasn’t serving me. I stumbled upon the Law of Attraction, and it intrigued me. If we could create or manifest joy and abundance in our lives, I wanted to know how! So I kept reading and learning about gratitude and how to change my thoughts from lack to abundance, from fear to allowing, and from negative to positive.

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