Tag: Empathy

Teaching Children Empathy Prevents Bullying

September 8, 2015 | By Sinta Ebersohn

“Empathy, an understanding that other people have feelings and that those feelings count, is a learned behaviour. There is no gene for empathy. That learning begins in infancy.” Says Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, research scientist in psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. Why is empathy so vitally important for success in life and work? Empathy […]

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Rapid Rules for Elections in South Africa

Is your child eligible to vote for the first time this year? Give him/her an unbiased perspective on the upcoming elections, in a nutshell. No politics, just logic answers to their most burning questions. Rapid Rules takes a neutral look at the basics of elections. In the first interactive online presentation, we explore the following […]

#BOOtoBullies

#BOOtoBullies Two boys who were physically and emotionally bullied at their primary school, put their eight- and twelve year old heads together in 2014 and came up with a plan to make young children aware of the impact of bullying. The brothers, Timeon and Reuben Jansen van Rensburg, with the help of their mother, Sinta Ebersohn, created […]