empathy

Sarah Fader shares why she believes that few things are more important for her son to learn than empathy.

"I'm your neighbor, and a couple of months ago you hit my car. I’m writing to you because…" I write draft after draft, obsessing about this woman.

This has been a week of shitty news. And for me, the eternally glass-half-full kind of girl, that says a lot.

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You see, every time we watch The Lion King — every freakin’ time Mufasa dies — her small fists ball up, her nose and brows furrow, and tears well up in her eyes. But instead of worrying about herself, she asks “Mommy, what happen? Dis sad?” She pauses and waits for my response, but when I let silence linger a moment too long, she asks again, “Dis sad, Mommy? Dis sad?”