I think it’s safe to assume kindness and empathy are values we all want to embody and instill in our children. At Bloom, this is certainly something we strongly value in our classrooms and in our work with clients and families. But how do we really teach kids what kindness is and how to do it? How do we teach empathy?  If you look up the definition of empathy in the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, you’ll get something like this “ the action of understanding, being aware of

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