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Wednesday Wee-view: Honeycake - A Circle Of Trust

The Wee-view for today is on  Honeycake: A Circle Of Trust by Medea Kalantar.  This sweet read-aloud book follows Nala, an inquisitive and creative character most kids will easily relate to. When she accidentally breaks an item belonging to her Papa, Nala feels awful but isn’t sure what to do. Her parents show what building trust looks like and how their family is a safe place to always tell the truth. Now Nala must decide how she can help keep the family’s “circle of trust” strong and growing.  The author did a nice job of simplifying the concept of truthfulness and trust into an understandable and entertaining children’s story. These kinds of conversations should be ongoing from the time our kids are babies, so this was a fun way to reinforce those ideas. I also appreciated the emphasis that parents need to first create and model an environment of trust if they want their kids to absorb that message into their own thinking and behavior. While the activity of building the

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