"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” -- Anaïs Nin
Dead Poets Society (movie)
This week we invite you to gather with teenage children and watch 'Dead Poets Society', a 1989 coming-of-age story of a maverick teacher at a prestigious New England boys' boarding school who uses poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression at an instiution that finds merits in conformity and tradition.
Trailer is here
Reading Corner
Title: The Lion Women of Tehran
By: Marjan Kamali
Ages: 12+
Welcome to this epic tale of friendship, betrayal and redemption!
"In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams for a friend to alleviate her isolation.
Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions of becoming “lion women.”
But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.
Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences." -- GoodReads
Bonus: The author shares food recipes related to this book, we invite you to try with children.
Recommended by KindfulKids Editors
Be the Change
Friends and relations formed in early years mold children's worldviews and expression. Friendships are also a delicate topic amongst children and teens, considering the social-media driven, often-lonely world we inhabit. Invite children to discuss what friendships mean to them, what may be some of their most profound experiences around friends as yet and how have they shaped them.
