Hailed as “an absolute must-read” (Jean Twenge) and a book that “will change your kids’ lives” (Jack Canfield), UnSelfie by Dr. Michele Borba clarifies what parents and teachers Should do to combat the growing empathy turmoil among children today-including a 9-step empathy-building plan with ideas to guide children from birth through university, and beyond.

Teenagers today are 40 percent less empathetic than these were thirty years back. Why is too little empathy-which will go hand-in-hand with the personal- about UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Children Flourish in Our All-About-Me Globe absorption epidemic Dr. Michele Borba calls the Selfie Syndrome-so dangerous? Initial, it hurts children’ academic functionality and prospects to bullying behaviors. Also, it correlates with an increase of cheating and much less resilience. And once children develop up, a lack of empathy hampers their ability to collaborate, innovate, and problem-solve-all must-have abilities for the global overall economy.

In UnSelfie Dr. Borba pinpoints the causes leading to the empathy crisis and stocks a groundbreaking, researched-based, nine-step plan for reversing it.

The good thing? Empathy is certainly a trait that can be trained and nurtured. Dr. Borba gives a platform for parenting that yields the results most of us want: successful, happy kids who are also kind, moral, courageous, and resilient. UnSelfie is certainly a blueprint for parents and teachers who want to kids shift their concentrate from I, me, and mine…to we, us, and ours.