Catherine Newman
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312 appearances
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first heard Jun 2022
last heard Jun 2022
Catherine Newman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We got a lot of feedback from kids about the first book.
The thing kids most wanted that the first book didn't include almost everything was social skills.
Kids wrote us letters that were like, But how do I make small talk with my grandma?
And how do I ask someone out on a date?
And
And we thought, Oh yeah, this is gonna be another book where we just dig deep with social skills and then because I've written that real simple column for so long.
The truth is adults are dealing with really similar stuff.
So when I distilled at some point I distilled basically all of the major kind of themes and questions of ten years of that column.
And it's a lot of stuff that's in this book for kids, you know.
How do you how do you deal with being excluded?
How do you um extend to someone
when you're not feeling necessarily generous?
How do you say no?
How do you you know, all of the skills in this book, how do you keep, keep, keep recent yourself around empathy, which I think is probably
you know, if there's one global suggestion, it's that to keep trying to imagine what it feels like to be somebody else.
And that's a really hard thing.
And I know there's controversy about whether or not empathy can be taught.
But we know it can be taught to some extent and that it is a skill that takes practice of imagining what it feels like to be somebody else.
That's if somebody smiles at you and you smile back, you're practicing empathy already.
I feel like it's a good thing to remind kids.
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