“Boys, do you know what being grateful means?”
“No.”
“No.”
“It means to be happy about something, something that helped you, that makes
you feel good, feel thankful.
It can be someone who’s done something for you, or a thing like a pretty
butterfly flying in a ray of sunlight,
or it can be something that was not good or hurt you at the time but that you
can think about and be glad that it is in the past and you’re ok.”
“There is a good exercise, a way of thinking called a reflection, where we
think of things to be grateful for.”
“Can you think of five things to be grateful for?”
Liam was quick to respond.
“Ok, like I am grateful for Mum because she made me a nice lunch, and I’m
grateful for adventure quest, and I’m grateful for my best friend Luke, and I’m
grateful for reading time.
Does there have to be five?”
“No. Why are you grateful......
