{"id":897,"date":"2016-05-01T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohmotherdear.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2021-04-13T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:14:18","slug":"empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-898 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-e1618337636539.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"3974\" height=\"1442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-e1618337636539.jpeg 3974w, https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-e1618337636539-300x109.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-e1618337636539-768x279.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-e1618337636539-510x185.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-e1618337636539-1536x557.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-e1618337636539-2048x743.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3974px) 100vw, 3974px\" \/><br \/>\nI remember talking to another mom and she was talking about trying to teach her son empathy. I thought to myself, when do we start understanding the meaning of empathy?<\/p>\n<p>When Olivia was younger, if she saw me tear up a bit or bump into something, she would laugh. I had to explain that it&#8217;s not good to laugh when someone is sad or hurt. I know she is still trying to understand.it was hard at times when I would see her laugh at me if I bumped into things, etc.<\/p>\n<p>One day I was just having a crazy day and I just cried. She was pretending to be a monster with a Lego box and when she took it off she saw me crying. She asked me what was wrong and said, &#8220;Daddy will be home later, do you want some milk to feel better? Do you want to hold Bobo?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It made my day. She offered me Bobo, which was so sweet.<br \/>\nIt made me feel like, yay, she is starting to know the meaning of empathy.<br \/>\nDespite dealing with tantrums, there is still hope:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember talking to another mom and she was talking about trying to teach her son empathy. I thought to myself, when do we start understanding the meaning of empathy? When Olivia was younger, if she saw me tear up a bit or bump into something, she would laugh. I had to explain that it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-random-doodle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}