Raising Compassionate Kids
with Kendra Evans Fraka, MSW and Vibha Pathak, OTD, OTR/L
Episode 6, Season 1 | November 4, 2020
Show Notes
Join host Cindy Lopez and her guests as they discuss how a family culture of compassion can really open hearts and minds. Therapist Kendra Evans and Occupational Therapist Vibha Pathak draw from their professional experiences working with kids of all ages – and raising their own children – to help us cultivate a compassionate and unjudging community, starting at home. No surprise here: compassion starts with us.
In this episode, Kendra, Vibha and Cindy share about expanding a sense of fairness among siblings, seeing the meaning behind online/digital behavior, and how noticing differences among us can contribute to mindfulness. They also share specific strategies to teach compassion and discuss the link between compassion and mental health.
Guest Info
Kendra Evans Fraka, MSW
LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER
Kendra has nearly 20 years’ experience working with children and their families in outpatient, residential, school and home settings developing strategies with parents and teachers and using social cognitive and behavioral interventions with children who have difficulties with peers, impulse regulation or anxiety.
Vibha Pathak, OTD, OTR/L
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
Vibha discovered a passion for working with children with special needs in high school when she volunteered at an inclusive preschool. With two children herself, she realizes the value of the time and sustained energy needed for meaningful relationships as a family. She believes that therapy for the child should be so ingrained in the daily routine that it fits in naturally with the child’s schedule.
Resources
Top 3 Mindfulness Strategies to Reduce Stress podcast episode
Visit Vibha Pathak’s bio.
Visit Kendra Evans Fraka’s bio
Kendra and Vibha’s Resource Recommendations:
I am Human a Book of Empathy by Peter H. Reynolds
Listening w/ My Heart: A Story of Kindness and Self-Compassion by Gabi Garcia
She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger
Teaching Kids to be Kind: A Guide to Raising Compassionate and Caring Children By Rachel Tomlinson
Wonder (upper elementary students) by R.J. Palacio
We are all Wonders (younger students) by R.J. Palacio
The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
Come with Me by Holly M. McGhee
