This year the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is kindness. And that is more important than ever before in these challenging times, when just the smallest act of kindness can make all the difference.
And if there is one book to recommend on the theme of kindness, it has to be "Wonder" by R J Palacio. Let us know any other suggestions.
"If you have a choice between being right and being kind, choose kind" Dr Wayne W. Dyer.
On Auggie's first day of school Mr Browne the teacher introduces this precept to his class. Ten year old Auggie just wants to be normal, to be like everyone else. Inside he feels, normal, he is normal but he was born with a facial anomaly which marks him out as different. As Auggie starts school for the first time in his life he has to learn to overcome challenges, deal with bullying and what it is to have true friends. And above all we learn about kindness. So for this upcoming anti-bullying week there couldn't be a better novel to read than "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio.
