empathy

Empathy between children and the world is a main developmental objective for preschool children.  They don’t differentiate between themselves and others.  Cultivating relationships with animals, both real and imagined, is one of the best ways to foster empathy during childhood.  Children want to run like deer, slither along like snakes, be clever as a fox, and quick like a rabbit (adapted from Sobel, David.
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