Today’s Excerpt:

Sentence stem: “I can show compassion by…”

We can become more compassionate by imagining how someone else might feel and deciding how to respond.

Read these scenarios and imagine a compassionate response:

• You are playing a game with your friend during recess. You win and your friend gets really upset and starts crying.
• Your sibling is riding their scooter outside and falls off. They didn’t get badly injured, but they are sad and hurt.
• At lunch you notice a new student sitting alone. They have their head down and shoulders slumped as they eat lunch.
• Your friend hates getting shots. They have a doctor’s appointment and have to get vaccinated soon and are very scared.

Consider:

• Who in the situation needs compassion? How do you know?
• How could you show compassion?
• Have you ever felt like any of the people in the scenarios?