Hajiya Binta Bakari
Teach children love and empathy through example
“We have to show children what love and empathy are all about.”
— Hajiya Binta Bakari
- Speaker
- Hajiya Binta Bakari
- Country
- Nigeria
- Published
- December 2020
Director's Note
A pratical teaching from Nigeria about what neuroscientist call mirror neurones: people mirror what we do. Why would that be any different for children when they see us?
Full Transcript
Children are children. Children are innocent. They use us as a mirror: they take a look at their lives. We as parents, as adults, need to teach this children empathy by showing an example. And that's what children see. You don't teach, practice makes pratice, you have to show them what love and empathy is all about. If they don't experience it, if they don't get it, they can't give it. You can't give what you don't have. So it still, the whole response lies on our shoulder, as parents, as individual, as a community, as a religious leaders, as members of the same religion. To show children what love and empathy is all about, you have to practice it, you have to give it. If you don't give a child an education, you don't expect him to behave like an educated person. It's the same thing.
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