Empathy in young children

Empathy is the ability to sense other people's emotions, understand their feelings. Nowadays is more important than ever to nurture empathy in young children.  Some of the things that parents and teachers can do if first of all remember thar we are role models, we are our children's example; we need to talk with them about others' feelings, acknowledge his or her own feelings, read stories about feelings and emotions, recreate those stories, ask children question about the different characters.