Career discussion with Diya

Diya - Mamma, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
Me - Do something in technology or psychology. In the future either people are going to be engineers or mad (to not be engineers).
Diya - hmm, I took an online quiz and it said I will be a good counselor/ psychologist person.
Me - ok
Diya - ... but I don't have time for other people's problems.
Mamma - ok then become an engineer and create your own problems !!!!

Stick figures by Aadi

Paddington 2

Empathy 1

This year we have decided that we will all learn more about Empathy and have made it part of the family meeting discussions. I am trying to find appropriate material and examples to seed the discussion – like Ted talks, youtube videos, pictures etc and then we talk about how these ideas apply to us. Here is the first session –

1/1/18

#1 The definition and the need (what and why)

Brene Brown you tube cartoon on Empathy.

Brené Brown on Empathy

Aadi found the example hilarious "I think my marriage is falling apart; atleast you have a marriage". I don’t know what he understood from the example but he is the highest frequency user of the word "atleast" ….

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