Author, Daniel Leary writes, ‘When the heart is grateful, the mind is healthy. When you appreciate who you are, enjoying the gifts within you and around you in your family, neighbourhood, nature, then the odds are you are in a good place responding in a balanced and positive way to the pain and wonder of your life’. 

This year our staff members and students are involved in The Resilience Project.  Throughout the project, students explore one of the principles of the program, gratitude– paying attention to what we have rather than worrying about what we don’t have.

The Resilience Project suggests parents can support the program and practise developing gratitude in children by asking:

• What three things went well for you today? 
• Who is someone you feel grateful for? Why?
• What is something you are looking forward to tomorrow?
• What makes our home a special place?

These questions are useful for we the adults, as well as the children. As Daniel Leary says ‘When the heart is grateful, the mind is healthy’.

 

God bless

Geraldine