81. Teaching Empathy and Kindness to Young Children with Cara Zelas

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cara Zelas is an author, educator, kindness advocate, and the founder of Big World of Little Dude is an educational platform teaching children, aged 3-7, social and emotional skills through a book series and curriculum.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She is a mom of 2 and fur mom to Little Dude, a real life Therapy Dog with the Good Dog Foundation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode we talk all about</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the concept of Big World of Little Dude was created out of seeing the lack of social and emotional skills taught in schools</span></li> <li>Tips on teaching young children empathy</li> <li>How she pivoted her business during the Pandemic</li> <li>Moving her family from NYC to her hometown, a small 2,500 person town in Australia, during the Pandemic</li> <li>Survival tips for jet lag with toddlers</li> </ul> <p>Follow Cara at:</p> <ul> <li>Website: <a style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" href= "http://www.worldoflittledude.com">www.worldoflittledude.com</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li> <li>IG: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/worldoflittledude/">@worldoflittledude</a></li> </ul> <p>-----</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.</span></p> <p><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mommys-on-a-call-motherhood-business-wellness/id1478021376"> Subscribe</a> and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!</p> <p>For show notes, visit <a href="http://www.mommysonacall.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.MommysonaCall.com</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.stephanieuchima.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Stephanie's Website</a></li> <li>IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/momm