This week I’ve had fun sharing Sean Covey’s chapter 1 of his book, The 7 Habits of Happy Kids. This book is a lot of fun with 7 different characters, each written as a story to help teach each of the 7 Habits.
The first chapter is Bored! Bored! Bored! It’s a perfect story about being bored and thinking its everyone else’s job to get you unbored. Of course, it teaches kids that it’s their own job to be proactive.
ACTIVITY:
Choose one or all of the following “Baby Steps” for your students after reading the story. Or if you don’t have the book, do these anyway.
- The next time you feel boarded, do something nice for someone else, like Sammy did for Allie.
- Try doing something today that you’ve always been scared to do. Make a new friend, raise your hand in class, or clean the toilet.
- The next time you get mad and want to say something mean or rude, bit your tongue instead and don’t say it.
- If you do something wrong, say you’re sorry before someone asks you to apologize and think of what you might do next time, so you don’t make the same mistake.