Interactive
The Helper's Dilemma
Your friend needs help but helping makes you late — help and be late, or hurry ahead?
Being a helper is easy when it doesn't cost you anything. This is the other kind.
For the Young children — ages 5 to 9 — who are learning that caring for others sometimes costs you something. Also for caregivers and educators working to build empathy as an action, not a feeling.
The Name It First Experience
Your friend dropped everything and can't pick it all up and you're already going to be late. You could stop and help. Or you could hurry ahead and let them figure it out. In The Helper's Dilemma, you choose what happens next. Each path leads somewhere different. This is a story for children who are learning that helping someone is a real choice — not a feeling — and that it sometimes means being late, or uncomfortable, or different from the crowd. The output is your Helper's Dilemma Page — the choice you made and what it meant for both of you.
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Sample questions
- What do you think the character is feeling when they see their friend needs help but they're already late?
- What would YOU choose — help and be late, or hurry ahead?
- What do you think the friend who needed help is feeling?
Research basis
Eisenberg (prosocial moral reasoning) / Hoffman (empathy and moral development) / Kohlberg (moral development stages) / Staub (roots of altruism) / Batson (empathy-altruism hypothesis)
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