Saturday, May 30, 2009

Roots of Empathy Celebration


As many of you know, Cade and I have been participating in the Roots of Empathy Program. In short, this is a Canadian program that is proven to reduce aggression and increase emotional intelligence, empathy and compassion in children. We are lucky enough to be a part of the United States pilot program, so we are a part of a small group of mothers and children in the Seattle area to participate. Yesterday was the Mother & Child celebration and it was so fun! All the mothers and children, facilitators, teachers, and principals were there, as well as the news.
Well, needless to say, Cade had a GREAT time. Here are just a few videos from our time there....


As you can tell from that video, he's still nursing ;)

Like I said, the news was there and they put together a pretty nice story about the program. Here is the link:

http://www.nwcn.com/video/featured-index.html?nvid=366692&shu=1

There are many more videos from the celebration but in order to get something up on the blog, I will just post these two for now!

1 comment:

Mare said...

What a great news piece about the program's influence.

And what an adorable baby-fest! Cade just couldn't get enough of all of his little friends - the bonus was watching you trying to corral him, haha. That was really fun to see.