3Dan

Good morning everyone, Welcome to the first full week for the term...I hope that winter sports all went off without a hitch and your children enjoyed themselves!  Character Strength of the Week... St Phillip Neri was known from a young boy as being joyous.  While being known to help others, he was also well known for his funny pranks, for reading joke books, and playing the “clown” in general.  His joviality knew no bounds and he was always laughing and causing others to laugh.  WHAT IS HUMOR? Humor means to recognize what is amusing in situations, and to offer the lighter side to others.  Humor is an important lubricant to social interactions, and can contribute to team building or moving toward group goals.  Where other strengths are more or less essential for achieving certain types of goals or dealing with certain types of problems, humor is rarely an essential component to positive social interactions, but it is often a desirable one. It is also a valuable method of coping with di