Can compassion be nurtured?

Hello everyone, my name is Sudeepti Chapala, PP1 teacher at Siddhi Early Learning Center, Assistant professor by profession and I have been into teaching from the past 7 years.

Today's food for thought is - Can compassion be nurtured?

Yes, compassion can be nurtured and the good time to start building compassion in a child is during the critical early years.

Compassion plays an important phase of development in a child which helps to correlate with a good societal role and is very much essential for creating compassionate and empathetical world.

These are a few plan of actions we can adapt to make the world a kinder place:

1. Encourage children to play with others: This helps them to understand others perspective and needs.
2. Reading stories together: Making sure children read stories because reading age appropriate stories of kindness, help the child to be kind themselves.
3. Connect with nature and animals: Encourage children to relate more with nature and animals. For ex: we taught our children how to grow plants right from sowing them to giving them water everyday and harvesting them. This creates a window for them to learn kindness towards nature.
4. Spend time with elders: Spending time with elders is a beautiful way to build compassion. Children learn to help in household activities and small chores.
5. Recognize and appreciate: Make sure to recognise what the child does. Most importantly appreciate the child whenever you see child's act of kindness. It keeps them going a long way.

Thank you.