Skip to main content

What Makes You Happy?

I have spent far too much time away from blogging for BeWellEDU, but it's time for me to make this a priority again.



This is my beautiful daughter, Ava.  She is on the verge of so many changes in her life - she turns 13 in April, and she is in her first year of junior high.  She makes me happy.  She also inspired this post.  Recently, she was texting with a boy and she showed me the texts, at one point she asked him, "What makes you happy?"  He responded by saying that nobody had ever asked him that.  I felt both proud, and sad.  We all should have someone ask us that and mean it.  I was proud that she was truly interested in the answer, and she made him feel good and likely put a smile on his face.  He went on to respond with a list of things, and then asked her for her list.  What a great little conversation for two 12 year olds. 

She makes me happy.

What makes you happy?

Comments

  1. Unknown29 January 2019 at 14:53

    My mom makes me happy and how hardworking and amazing she is!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Breathe

My daughter recently took part in a poetry workshop at school.  Once it was over, her assignment for class was to write a poem and then deliver it in a spoken word performance to her class.  If chosen, she would then compete against the other top poems from the other 5 classes in her grade.  What she wrote and performed was so intensely personal.  I was blown away by her courage to share, but more so by the profound words, technique and delivery of the poem itself (the English teacher in me!). She was extremely self-conscious about sharing with others in her school about her experience with anxiety, but I told her that she was likely helping others by sharing about what she has dealt with.  A friend of mine, who is a teacher at her school commented on how she impacted other students with her words.  My friend shared that at school she appears to be such a confident, composed and self-assured young lady, so in sharing her story and poetry, my friend overh...
2 comments
Read more

It's Been a While... Hello Again

 Hi friends, Today a colleague (I am at a new school in a new role - big, big update and a lot to catch up on, perhaps another post for this) was talking about her book club she runs on the book Teacher Take Care .  I admire the work this colleague does on trying to instill wellness and mindfulness amongst staff.  In our conversation, I was reminded of this blog - something I have neglected for a LONG time.  I jumped back in and re-read some posts and shared the "Boundaries" post with my colleague, as it aligned with her mission.  She will now be sharing it with the cohort of readers she is working with. Reading some of my old posts and being reminded of the work I have done on here made me want to get back in and blog again.  Is blogging still a thing or have we all moved on to TikTok?   I am still working on being my best self, and a little insight into my new job - as I coach new staff at our school and new teachers, I share with them my little...
Post a Comment
Read more

There's Nothing Like...

Browsing my Twitter feed this morning and I ran across a tweet from a friend in California.  @TechCoachSusan tweeted, "Woooooot! Nothing like a little Springsteen to start you going in the morning!" and this made me think - "YES!!  I love a good tune to get me going." Music is so essential in life, in my opinion.  There is rarely a quiet moment in our house, as we always have music playing in the background, or turned up loud so we can enjoy a tune or two.  One of our favourite things to do is to ask Google to play a song, and we wait to see what kind of playlist it keeps going with.  Just this morning, my youngest daughter started our day off with "Footloose" and the next song was A-HA's "Take On Me" - there was not a grumpy morning person in the house! Music can change a mood, and I love that this morning it amped up @TechCoachSusan so much that she tweeted about it.  Wellness can be brought into our lives in so many ways, so let...
Post a Comment
Read more