Malala Yousafzai addresses a session. Gaza children travelling in search of safety on a truck. — Reuters/File Pakistan Nobel Laureate and global girls’ education rights advocate Malala Yousafzai announced another batch of emergency grants for charities working to provide humanitarian assistance to the children in war-torn Gaza. Taking to her official social media accounts, Yousafzai … Read more
MUNIGI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — Esther Mwema assumed her 4-year-old son had chicken pox. He was lucky enough to get a medical exam at this camp for displaced people, where many families live in tents and even clean water is at a premium. But the diagnosis was something else: mpox, a virus that’s sweeping … Read more
How is empathy “passed down” in this way? When parents respond to children’s distress in a supportive, empathetic way, it gives children a model for how to respond to the distress of others. Friendships in the teen years may then give children a chance to practice and hone the empathy skills that they learned from … Read more