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CONTEMPLATION: The habit of carefully
weighing the facts before making an important decision.
Vs. Irrational, prone to rash or hasty decisions and actions
- SUGGESTED READING:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Judy Bloom mystery novel.
A Hardy Boys mystery novel.
FAMILY ACTIVITY:
- Parents can talk with their children about ways to keep a clear
head in a difficult situation. Emotional control is often difficult
for children. Teach them to take a deep breath and count to ten when
they get angry with someone.
CLASS ACTIVITY:
- Design a word search appropriate to your student's grade level.
Have the words in the word search describe one of three similar
objects and place those three objects on display when you hand out
the word search. Include some extra words in the word bank and tell
your students how many words are actually in the word search. The
extra words should make it impossible to guess which item is being
described without doing the word search.
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- For centuries philosophers tried to deduce human nature by
thinking in abstract and general terms. They were trying to find
human nature by examining the most common attributes of the human
race. Can human nature be discovered in this way, or is it more
evident in the daily acts of individuals?
- Discuss the proper balance of emotion and logic in making life
decisions.
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature,
since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one intends
to do." -Benjamin Franklin
"Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason
at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason."
-Voltaire
"Reason can in general, do more than blind force." -Gallus
"Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's."
-Welsh Proverb
Perform a Random Act of Kindness Each Day
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