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Fast Company magazine in the United States asks how we can raise children to be more empathetic:

“Reading emotional cues, being familiar with the language of emotions, and ‘feeling with’ the other is what empathy is all about,” says Mary Gordon, the founder of the Roots of Empathy classroom program, which has been shown to reduce levels of aggression among schoolchildren. “Parents and teachers have powerful opportunities every day to nurture empathy in children,” says Gordon. “They do this when they interact and speak with others, including the child, in an empathic way.”

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