Vids: Teaching children to be happy.

[roy-nexus-6]

Children Full of Life, a documentary about kids sharing emotions in school (includes discussions on how they feel over the death of a loved one).

Thoroughly worth checking out. Vid 1 is posted below: the link will take you to the remaining 4 vids.
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2009/07/children-full-of-life-a-moving-documentary-about-kids-sharing-emotions-in-school.html

Children Full of Life (1 of 5)

[Vindingo]

That seems like a very interesting approach to shaping young minds; teaching empathy and compassion.  I don't know if teachers would be aloud to do that here.  I don't know if parents would like it if their kids were taught like that.  I could see people being offended by another person teaching their children about life. 

The teacher seems like a great man that cares about the kids.  It's too bad that if he were in the states he would have been fired in a second for consoling the girl like he did in the second video.

[roy-nexus-6]

It's too bad that if he were in the states he would have been fired in a second for consoling the girl like he did in the second video.

Same here in Oz.