Some Helpful Tips for a Better World

This is simply wonderful!

"Some Helpful Tips for a Better World" by Rebecca Doughty is about making the most of your life. Sounds easy and it is. We just have to take the time to remember them and of course create a few of our own. Here is a sampling...

Begin each day by making funny faces in the mirror.

Why?

I think because it reminds us not to take things too seriously. It makes us laugh and laughter always helps us to feel better.


Invent occasions for celebrations.

Why?

Who doesn't like to celebrate? If sure beats complaining!

Be a hero.

You are a hero if you help a chick across a path (or a lost dog find its owner). Easy and doesn't it make you feel better?

Can hardly wait to share this one. And I adore the pictures.... redheaded girl plus grey cat = Alison and Lulu

Say Something

Very powerful.

"Say Something" by Peggy Moss is so true in that by ignoring a problem we see happening to someone else we are contributing to it. This picture book is great for all ages but I think our older students should hear it, feel it and ask themselves - is this them?

Listen...

A girl who rides on my bus always sits alone. Sometimes kids throw things at her and call her names. The girls who sit behind her laugh.
I don't laugh.
I don't say anything.

But when the narrator is the one being teased and after those teasers leave, she notices all the other students around her..... looking at her.... feeling sorry for her....
but saying.....

nothing.

And when her brother hears her say she was mad at those other students around her...

He shrugged and said , "Why? They didn't do anything."

"Right," I said.

Guess who she sits beside on the bus the next day?

"One person speaking up makes more noise than a thousand people who remain silent." Thom Harnett - Civil Right Attorney

Very powerful.