Dr. Jim Taylor

Weave Compassion into the Fabric of Your Family’s Lives

Your family life is rife with rituals that can send messages of compassion, kindness, and sharing to your children. When you sit down for a meal, you are sharing your food and each other's company. When you hug and kiss your children good night, you are sharing your love. When you play games together, you [...]

5 Messages to Instill Compassion in Your Children

By Dr. Jim Taylor| 2014-07-28T07:41:53-07:00 July 28th, 2014|Categories: Parenting|Tags: charity, child development, children, compassion, family, family values, generosity, giving, hatred, helping, indifference, kindness, narcissism, parents, selfishness, values|0 Comments

Raising compassionate children is no small feat these days. Because of the egocentrism of children's early years combined with the increasingly prevalent messages of selfishness, narcissism, and indifference that popular culture communicates to them, children are not likely to readily learn compassion on their own. This means that you have to make an extra effort to [...]