Bullying – The Empathy Solution
- Dec
- 17
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Mary Gordon and Dr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl. Remember those names. With a Mary Gordon’s program, called Roots of Empathy, and the research done by Dr. Schonert-Reichl and others, there may be a breakthrough on the important issue of bullying / aggressive behavior in children. I have written about the topic of bullying. These women are doing the actual “in the trenches” work to solve it with the “Roots of Empathy” program in Canada. Dr. Schonert-Reichl has been nice enough to begin corresponding with me about this study and further work they are doing. I hope that the dialogue grows and continues.
I have no other purpose for this post but to share some bullet point results from her research and link you back to her work, and the program itself.
They bring a baby and a parent into school to interact with the children!
What They Found:
They found that, in short, this approach is effective in improving all universally accepted factors in the behaviors that contribute to bullying. Furthermore, they found that bullying itself (or aggressive behavior period) decreased significantly.
Read more by clicking on the “Roots of Empathy” link above.
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P.S. I love babiiiiieeeeesss!
We cannot solve violence with violence. That has never worked. That’s why we still have violence.
We will not solve this by criminalizing kids, nor spanking them, nor by putting them in time out.
It is time to be innovative, creative, understanding with consistency. If we are going to shape and mold the brain, let’s first understand how it works.