Kindness Counts : Cultivating Self-Compassion In Children




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In the course of their lives, children face innumerable losses, challenges, heartbreaks and disappointments. Children’s resilience depends, in part, on the quality of their relationships with themselves. In other words, how well children persevere through adversity appears to be strongly associated with their ability to relate to themselves with kindness and compassion.

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