TPP 206: Empathy and Perspective-Building: Why We Need it Now More Than Ever
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is empathy and why is it essential for children today?
There's really a lot going on with kids. There's a lot going on in their inner their inner thoughts. There's a lot of misunderstanding between kids. And to be able to show what it looks like from both sides, I think really gives your kids an opportunity to walk through that perspective taking. And really see that everybody has their own perspective. Has faults, has flaws, but also has things to celebrate.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. This week's episode is all about empathy. Something that has come up many, many times on this show, but somehow in over 200 episodes, we've never had an entire episode devoted to empathy as a topic. So I'd say it's about time. And there's no better person to talk about empathy than frequent friend of the show and all around awesome human Amanda Morin. For those of you who might not be familiar with Amanda's work yet, she's a writer, a parent advocate, a former teacher, and current in house expert for one of my favorite go to resources, Understood.
Amanda's newest book is called What Is Empathy, a bullying storybook for kids, which I had the chance to review, and I just have to say it is so well done. In our conversation, we talk about Amanda's new book and how it differs from other anti-bullying books, as well as how to cultivate empathy in our children, how empathy relates to differently wired kids, and the importance and power of parenting from a place of empathy. This is such an important topic for the time we're living in, and I'm so grateful for Amanda's insights and her gentle demeanor. I guarantee you're gonna feel more calm and mindful after you listen to this episode. Thanks so much, and now here is my conversation with Amanda. Hello Amanda, welcome back to the podcast.
Hi, thanks for having me again. It's good to talk to you. Again. It's always a pleasure. And I'm really excited about this conversation because I had a chance to check out your book in advance and I just absolutely loved it. And it sparked such an important conversation on so many levels for this community. So I'm excited about that. And I would love before we get to our main topic. Would you just take a few minutes to introduce yourself in whatever way you like to introduce yourself?
Sure. I'm Amanda Morin. I'm a parent to differently wired kids. I'm a writer and senior expert with understood.org. A former teacher and an author of a number of books, including the new one that is just coming out called What is Empathy a Bullying Storybook for Kids, which is why we're having this conversation today.
That was a very concise introduction. Well done. Well done. Thank you. So okay, we're gonna talk about empathy through many different lenses today. I wanna hear about your book, but even before we get into that, let's just talk about empathy. It's something that I feel like I've learned and continue to learn more and more about just as a parent and how I use it and the importance of it in day to day life. And I know Brene Brown has done so much work around introducing this idea of empathy versus sympathy. So can you talk about empathy as a concept? You know, how do you define it and why is it so important?
So it's a skill, I think, first of all. And so when you say you're learning it over and over again, you keep learning it, I feel the same way. I think it's a skill that we just develop over time. Um, and I love the way Brene Brown talks about it as being different from sympathy. I think empathy is A way of being compassionate towards other people and learning to think of things in other perspectives and Putting aside your own feelings to sort through what they're thinking about. why it they may be acting the way they are, why you maybe seeing um them feel sad or feel happy or or any of those kinds of things. I think the difference between empathy and sympathy is really important because when we look at somebody with sympathy, it's more of a sort of like, this is happening to you and I feel
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is empathy and why is it essential for children today?
0:00–5:27
2
How does Amanda define empathy and differentiate it from sympathy?
5:27–10:17
3
What are cognitive, affective, and compassionate empathy and how do they work?
10:17–14:48
4
How does the book *What Is Empathy?* teach perspective‑taking to kids?
14:48–19:35
5
Why is the ‘platinum rule’ more effective than the golden rule for parenting?
19:35–25:05
6
What open‑ended questions help children express their feelings and needs?
25:05–29:38
7
How can parents use empathy to support differently‑wired children during tough moments?
29:38–33:31
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Where can listeners connect with Amanda Morin and find the new book?
33:31–38:08
Speakers
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