"Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings." — Daniel Goleman

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

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Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.