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A review by angela_amman
Kindness Wins by Galit Breen
5.0
Galit Breen saw one of her online articles spur comments not about what she'd written, but about the way she looked in the accompanying wedding photograph. The unkind comments left her reeling, but they also planted the seeds of Kindness Wins, a practical guide for helping our kids practice online kindness as they come of age in a world where fingers fly over keyboards without the common courtesy filter most of us have the sense to use in face-to-face interactions.
Each chapter of Kindness Wins shares a different online "habit" kids can practice, with the goal of thoughtful, kind interaction. Reading the sections doesn't feel like a manual; it feels like you're sitting down with a friend and figuring out how to help your kids make informed, careful decisions about what they post online.
Additional resources and bullet points for each chapter make the book reference-friendly — you can come back and revisit parts as they become more pertinent in your child's life. Kindness Wins even includes contracts for internet use, for kids and their parents, which is crucial for families who are entering the world of Instagram accounts and other social media platforms.
Talking about what we share, how it can be perceived and misconstrued, and how we comment on and interact with the content our friends — and our non-friends — share, is a continuing conversation, and Kindness Wins makes it a little simpler to figure out how to have that discussion.
Each chapter of Kindness Wins shares a different online "habit" kids can practice, with the goal of thoughtful, kind interaction. Reading the sections doesn't feel like a manual; it feels like you're sitting down with a friend and figuring out how to help your kids make informed, careful decisions about what they post online.
Additional resources and bullet points for each chapter make the book reference-friendly — you can come back and revisit parts as they become more pertinent in your child's life. Kindness Wins even includes contracts for internet use, for kids and their parents, which is crucial for families who are entering the world of Instagram accounts and other social media platforms.
Talking about what we share, how it can be perceived and misconstrued, and how we comment on and interact with the content our friends — and our non-friends — share, is a continuing conversation, and Kindness Wins makes it a little simpler to figure out how to have that discussion.