Counseling Corner
This week, our counseling team will be working on kindness. The definition of kindness is: the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Gratitude is defined as the quality of being thankful or a readiness to show appreciation for and return kindness. If we were to use this in a sentence, it might sound like, “She expressed her gratitude to her teachers for their kindness and support.” As you may guess, these two ideas work together. Children learn these concepts from seeing the adults in their world practice them. When is the last time you participated in a random act of kindness with a stranger?
Parenting Strategies of the Week: Practicing Kindness at Home
Dr. Malti at the University of Toronto believes that there are three components in the practice of kindness – kind emotions, kind cognitions, and kind behaviors.
Kind emotions include sympathy, empathy, respect, guilt for wrongdoing, and pride for acting ethically.
Kind cognitions come from understanding how the act of kindness affects others and ourselves.
Kind actions are the acts of prosocial behavior as simple as giving a helping hand, cooperating, or comforting another, or as complex as sharing with others or including the discriminated.
The more these three elements are incorporated into daily life activities, the more transformational power they have. For example, the more kind emotions we feel internally, the more likely we are to show kind act accordingly (and so on).
November Birthday Party: TBD
Snacks this week:
Monday- Peanut Butter Cheese Crackers OR Rice Krispy Treat
Tuesday- Cheez Its OR Fruit Snacks
Wednesday- Peanut Butter Crackers OR Honey Graham Snacks
Thursday- Apple Cinnamon Nutri Grain Bars OR Peanut Butter Cheese Crackers
Friday- Rice Krispy Treat OR Vanilla Pudding
Mrs. Rachel Haynes
