This week, we spent our Giving Friday at Target :). Tyler's after-school program through YMCA was doing a service learning project in which they were collecting toys for a local charity. We went to Target to support this effort, talking on the way about how it would feel to not get gifts at Christmastime. We talked about what kind of gifts their "friends" may like and then we spent quite a bit of time in the store picking out the perfect gifts.
Although they still were a bit upset at the end that they didn't get to keep what they selected, I did see a transformation in them from the beginning to the end. As the excitement about making someone else happy with their gifts grew, they seemed just a little less hung up on the fact that they had to give the gift away. I hope that it is these small transformations that will continue to strengthen their empathy muscles.
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