My daughter has been having a great deal of trouble with this recently. We were at a museum where they showed trash that had been left in the park and one of the trash items was a stuffed cat. She was really upset thinking about both the child who had lost it and the cat needing to be cleaned up and cared for. If we could have brought it home for her to clean, she would have done so.
On the one hand, I'm extremely glad that she is sensitive and empathetic. On the other hand, it has become so bad lately that it has become very hard to take. I don't want to discourage her from being empathetic, but am becoming exhausted. Right now, she is upset because her pet spiders despawned in Minecraft. She is making a memorial.
