Greater Good

What does it mean to raise a resilient child?

Resilience is a skill set that combines emotional awareness, problem solving, and flexibility—

“Do what I say, or you’re not invited to my birthday party!”

“I’m not going to be your partner on the project unless you give me the treat from your lunch!”

These kinds of threats are tactics many school-age kids use to solve conflicts. Parents and teachers sometimes assume these common threats are basically harmless.

After all, are they so different f...

In Ukraine, school goes on even when nothing feels stable. Lessons restart after nights in shelters, teachers log on from cities under attack, and students join from apartments without windows or from friends’ homes in other countries. The fact that learning continues at all is a testament to the creativity, adaptability, and commitment of educators and students who have spen...

At a compassion education conference in 2018, Buddhist scholar Thupten Jinpa described new scientific evidence on the effectiveness and benefits of compassion training. Why, he asked, despite the growing popularity of this training, were we not seeing much of an impact in the world? Compassion did not seem to be “scaling up.” “If we want to make a real change,” he said, “we h...