Child-care expert to talk on developing empathy in children

Since 2000, youngsters in B.C. elementary schools have been taught more than reading, writing and arithmetic. They are also being taught empathy.
They are learning that through Roots of Empathy. In the past 18 years, more than 155,000 schoolchildren in B.C. have been taught how to improve their empathy, which is also known as “emotional literacy”.
The program isn’t about adults keeping track of acts of kindness or telling students how to act or feel, said Mary Gordon, the found