Sympathy Fuels Connection

Compassion is learned through experience and seeing those less fortunate; it brings out sympathy because one cannot ignore it when unfortunate people are everywhere.

Sympathy has a very relative hold in the lives of people. It is not something humans teach; sympathy has been here since the beginning. We develop it from our own failure and use it to understand when or when not to use mercy when someone else fails. The Iroquois constitution states that their leaders should “be

If a child makes a disclosure I will listen to them, I will let them have their say uninterrupted as not to put words into their mouths, I will take notes of actual words, times and dates where possible/necessary. I will use appropriate facial expressions (not frowning or cross) make eye contact and be at their level. I will not make promises, not to tell anyone else or keep secrets and I will explain that it’s not their fault, their not to blame and that they are not bad. I will value and respect them and try my best to keep them comforted.

A good way to try and get a child to tell you a secret they may have is to make a secret for the whole class to write down a secret of their choice and put it in the secret box, no one would be allowed to read this secret apart from the teacher. A positive of this method would be that children will feel more comfortable writing down a problem instead of speaking it, they will also be telling someone without having to go through the embarrassment. The negatives of this may be that there could be a number of issues of abuse at one time and trying to link it to a child may be confusing, and a mix-up could occur.

The benefit for the child is that they have someone who they can talk to in confidence

They should remind their child constantly of being careful but I do not think parents should spy on their child. Parents should also tell their child that if they are in a dangerous situation, they need to let them know because parents are there to help.

Self-Protection: Another reason we may not express our feelings is we don’t want to give others information that could affect how they perceive or act toward us. We fear that they won’t like us.

When trying to help some-one that is distressed, you first need to find out what sort of support they want and need. Some-times it is as simple as someone to listen to them or a hand to hold and

In both of the episodes that I listened to for this assignment, the speaker interviewed Adele Faber, mainly discussing her book titled “How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk”. According to Faber, this book talks about how to be a better listener to children and how to better communication between the two generations. There were several main points that she mentions in the podcast, one of them being the acknowledgement of both the child’s and the parent’s feelings. Basically, parents shouldn’t tell their kids how they’re feeling. One example would be a child telling the parent that something hurts and then the parent telling them it doesn’t, that it’s just a papercut. Instead, the proposed response is repeating to the child that it does in fact hurt, or asking them how to make it feel better. This is the foundation of the relationship between parent and child.

The loss of a loved one can help us find compassion. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the boy is the most compassionate person in the whole novel. At the end of the novel, when the boy 's father dies, the boy is not thinking about hisself and the challenges he will now have to face. He is thinking about covering his deceased father with a potentially useful blanket, something that may seem trivial to us, but is important to the boy. "Could we cover him with one of the blankets?" (McCarthy 279). Another example of love found with the loss of a loved one is in Harrison Bergeron. In this story, there is an absence of love for individuality by the government, but the people still possess some type of love and that is present in the scene where Harrison is killed. As the mother watches

Sympathy differs from empathy, in that with empathy one experiences an objective understanding of what another person is feeling. For example, when a nurse is showing empathy, he/she accurately perceives and understands what the patient is feeling. On the other hand, sympathy is the actual sharing of another’s feelings.

I'm doing this article because I sometimes have trouble feeling for another one's emotions also known as empathy, this could also help me and others with caring for people and their situations.

Most definitions of empathy are based on the same core idea - empathy is the ability to understand and identify someone else’s thoughts and feelings, as if they were one’s own (wordreference online dictionary, 2016). Although it’s been said “there are probably nearly as many definitions of empathy as people working on the topic.” (de Vignemont & Singer, 2006, p.435) suggesting that there is no singular way to even define empathy, let alone explain its impact on our behaviour. Due to the sheer depth and complexity of empathy it’s understandable that each discipline within psychology presents it’s own explanation for why we experience it, and how it can affect our interaction with the world around us. Psychologists have been exploring empathy for decades, in hope of gaining a complete grasp of what it means and how it can vary between each person, therefore its important we look at different psychological perspectives to try to understand it’s many dimensions.

Parents should encourage the child to share their feelings with them. The child

Sympathy is a word countless hear, but few accurately understand. It is often confused with empathy, and many times true sympathy is occasional. Countless