Each newsletter we will be sharing a virtue that will be the focus in our school over the following three weeks.  

What is Consideration? Consideration is being thoughtful about other people and their feelings.  It is thinking about how your actions affect them and caring about how they feel.  It is paying attention to what other people like and don't like, and doing things that give them happiness.

Why Practice it? When people behave selfishly and don't practice consideration, other people feel hurt.  If we play music too loud, or forget someone's birthday, or leave things around that people can trip on, we are being inconsiderate.  When we are considerate, others know they are important to us.  We bring them happiness, and they feel like making us happy too.

How do you practice it? Consideration begins by noticing what people need and thinking about how your actions are affecting them.  You care about how they feel.  You act as if other people are just as important as you are.  You do little things to bring happiness to others.  In giving a gift to someone, think carefully about what would please that person.  Give tender attention to people who are sad.

Signs of Success Congratulations!  You are practicing Consideration when you...

• Respect other people's needs and feelings.
• Consider others' needs as important as your own.
• Stop and think how your actions will affect others.
• Put yourself in other people's shoes.
• Give tender attention.
• Think of little things to bring others happiness.

"The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love"  William Wordsworth, "Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey"