A message from Kim
Three Great Things
We have been doing some work in some of your children’s classrooms to help children to be able to identify 'Three Great Things’ about their day. Too often children (and we as adults!) can get caught up on focussing on the things that haven’t gone well in our day or on the negatives. If it is not something you already do in your families it might be a worthwhile thing to try out. Whether it be in the car on your way home from school, over the dinner table or before bed. Sometimes by the time they have got to the end of talking about the ‘Three Great Things’ they have forgotten about the things that didn’t go so well!
A psychologist by the name of Martin Seligman undertook some research into this and found that writing about three good things was associated with increased happiness immediately after documenting the three things, as well as one week, one month, three months and six months later. He says that if you can write them down and then also write why they went so well it helps you to reflect on, and immerse yourself, in the events and think in more detail about the quality of them. Martin says that in his work he often doesn’t need to recommend people do it for more than a week as once they have started doing it they love it so much that they just keep doing it anyway!
Check out this article by the Raising Children Network for some other ways of looking at this strategy -
Positive thinking: kids, teens & parents | Raising Children Network
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