2 or 3 posts ago, I listed some thoughts I imagined sharing with my middle school students (but never did), and the last few were about judgement, specifically:

- Are we more interested in judging someone or being curious about them?

- If you don’t believe in judging people, don’t judge people who do.

Then last week, the NY Times published this article, titled:

How to Stop Being So Judgy

Here’s what you should do instead.

It gave three specific suggestions on what to do instead and the third one was:

"Swap judgment for curiosity and empathy."

I love those - two such powerful and often challenging practices in trying to replace judgement, but both helpful and productive both for oneself as well as the person we may be tempted to be "judgy" about.