In the News: The Fierceness of Mister Rogers
In this article on the Harvard Graduate School of Education website, Making Caring Common’s Rick Weissbourd says that he has found that men can sometimes tune out when terms like “empathy” and “listening” are used to talk about the importance of caring, but they can be more engaged by terms like “courage” and “respect.”
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