Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed In Our All-About-Me World

Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood - and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future.Is the Selfie Syndrome Undermining Our Kids? Future? Teens today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were thirty years ago. Why is a lack of empathy - which goes hand-in-hand with the self-absorption epidemic Dr. Michele Borba calls the Selfie Syndrome - so dangerous? First, it hurts kids? academic performance and leads to bullying behaviors. Also, it correlates with more cheating and less resilience. And once children grow up, a lack of empathy hampers their ability to collaborate, innovate, and problem-solve - all must-have skills for the global economy.In UnSelfie Dr. Borba pinpoints the forces causing the empathy crisis and shares a revolutionary, researched-based, 9-step plan for reversing it.