I need to remember this...

It is amazing where and how I am hit with some of my ideas. Last night, I was reading the newest issue of Mothering magazine, a book review about a woman who take infant/mother pairs into high-risk classrooms to teach empathy to the classroom. That really caught my attention because empathy and social relationships are one of my main research interests, only I believe that it need to begin way earlier, like maybe at birth! So I had a great idea for my dissertation:

Can/Does/Will a mixed age (infant through age 5) classroom increase empathy awareness with children?

Doesn't that sound fascinating?