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Understanding Shame, part 4: Growing up shame-based Shame is experienced as a passing emotion in almost everybody. It exists to tell us that we are at risk of losing important social relationships, or that we might be thrown out of our group.	Video: What It's Like to be a Parent in a War Zone How do parents protect their children and help them feel secure again when their homes are ripped apart by war?
10 Parenting Behaviors That Create Empathetic Children Don't suppress the child's emotions...Allow the child to see you vulnerable...Display empathy toward others...These are among 10 tips for parents to raise more empathetic children.	Parenting Style Impacts Kids’ Attitudes on Marriage, Family Supportive parenting styles -- featuring high or average values on independence paired with a high level of trust and interest shown in the child, as well as large amounts of time spent together -- is linked to not only greater academic... read more
Near-Death Experience Leads Physician to Promote Empathy Ever encountered a curt doctor? This doctor's near-death experience inspired the development of an empathy training program to help doctors better serve their patients through empathy.	Brazil's Men Helped to Become Better Fathers to Reduce Gender Violence While women who are better off financially are less likely to be involved in a violent relationship in the first place, and to have the means to leave a violent partner if she does enter that kind of relationship, Brazilian programs aimed at... read more
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us Loneliness affects our health. People with less social connections have disrupted sleep patterns, altered immune systems, greater inflammation, and higher levels of stress hormones.	Photos: Turn Your Nursing Photos into #treeoflife Brelfies Brelfies are the hottest trend to hit breastfeeding advocacy in awhile, and if you're wondering how to turn a photo of you nursing -- which everyone should have at least one of! -- into a #treeoflife brelfie, head on over to PicsArt.
Five Tips for Giving as a Family This Holiday Season The holiday season is not just a season for getting, but also for giving. Here are 5 ideas for families to remember the giving reason for the season.	A Five-Step Plan for Peace: A New Way for Young People to Change the World The Peace First Challenge empowers young advocates, ages 13-24, to fight social injustice by developing a peacemaking project.

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