Developing Your Child's Compassion

Written by Anil Vij


Character is a set of qualities, or values, that shape our thoughts, actions,reactions and feelings. People with strong character show compassion are honest and fair display self-discipline in setting and meeting goals make good judgments,show respect to othersshow courage in standing up for beliefs have a strong sense of responsibility are good citizens who are concerned for their community maintain self-respect.

Compassion

Compassion, or empathy, means identifying with and being concerned about other people's feelings and needs. It providesrepparttar emotional root for caring about other people. It allows us to be understanding and tolerant of different points of views and beliefs, it makes us aware ofrepparttar 110206 suffering of others, and it allows us to empathize with them or to feel their suffering as our own.

Compassion also allows us to feel joy and excitement--rather than anger and despair--at other people's successes and achievements.

Babies may begin to cry when they hear other sounds of crying, and coo and laugh when they hear others making happy sounds. Byrepparttar 110207 age of three, many children will make an effort to hug or comfort another child or a parent who seems upset. As children grow, compassion can guide their actions and behaviors in positive ways. They underst and that by doing something wrong, they cause others pain or unhappiness.

Guide to choosing a computer system for your child

Written by Eugen Lisov


Guide to choosing a computer system for your child

Before going further into choosing computers for children, I believe that you would like to knowrepparttar answer torepparttar 110205 following question:

Why do children need computers?

The easiest answer for this one is: “A child needs a computer so that he can play computer games”. Everybody agrees. Nevertheless, let’s not just limit onrepparttar 110206 short term use ofrepparttar 110207 computer… Let’s analyze a littlerepparttar 110208 world we live in and see what can acomputer do for children.

Computers are starting to have more and more importance in our daily life. Almost everywhere you go, you find computers. At office or at home, a computer is almost indispensable.

Not knowing to use a computer, you find many difficulties. Moreover, things will not get easier inrepparttar 110209 future, becauserepparttar 110210 world is getting more and more computerized. That is why your child should get accustomed and work with computers from an early age. If your child does this, it will be much easier for him to adapt torepparttar 110211 ever-changing technology.

Educational products are nowadays released mostly on computer CD's.

More and more educational products for children are now released inrepparttar 110212 form of programs and electronic encyclopedias and can only be viewed with a computer, somehow forcing you to buy a computer for your child. Unlikerepparttar 110213 traditional learning methods, learning with a computer hasrepparttar 110214 advantage of interactivity. Children love to learn with computers, because they can controlrepparttar 110215 way they learn and what they learn.

Of course, a child will use a computer mainly to play computer games. At first,repparttar 110216 computer will be for your child like a more expensive toy. The computer will be his favorite toy. Your child will play computer gamesrepparttar 110217 entire day. However, after a while,repparttar 110218 child will settle down and start exploringrepparttar 110219 other sides ofrepparttar 110220 computer.



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