What Kids Need: Empathy

What Kids Need: Empathy Empathy is the ability to understand and share the deep feelings of another person.  It often happens when a good friend listens to you when you’re frustrated, and they can rephrase what you’re saying with the same passion,...

What Kids Need: Helping Others

What Kids Need: Helping Others In this photo, you see a teenager helping an elementary student play a game or with homework.  A survey on youth by the Search Institute shows that kids believe that it is essential to help others and work to help them improve their...

What Kids Need: Homework

What Kids Need: Homework There is a movement in schools today where teachers do not assign homework.  They give the kids time to do it all in class, or so they say.  But what is the value of doing homework?  Is there a value?  I believe that there is value in doing...