Well, kindness is the quality
we work into it to instill in
our children and one that many
adults forget to employ every d.
And now there's a new book filld
with inspirational messages abot
treating others kindly, winning,
and it's winning all kinds of awards.
It's really a stunning book.
It is called Be Nice, The End.
We have Brian Scavennek and
also she's the author and Wendy
Schrag is the illustrator.
It's nice to meet both of you.
Well, you know, there are a lotf
books that have this, this mess,
but I mean the way the way you t
together and the pictures that went along,
I mean they just the pictures jt
really speak to so many and it's become,
you know, obviously with so many accolades,
you guys met during the pandemic
over Zoom and didn't even really meet
in person until this came out. w
did that come about?
We have a mutual friend,
and she suggested that I reach out to Brian.
She knew that he had this fantac
verbiage and I had the images of the kids
and thought they would be a perfect match.
So I reached out to him and said, hey,
I've got an idea, what do you t?
And he said, heck yeah, let's d.
The rest is history. Yeah.
And so the the the the
background the place that this
all happens is the playground,
which is you know for so many,
we all know it.
We all have you know good
memories and difficult memories
from the playground, right.
I visit a lot of schools and I
kind of see that that the the
conflict happens there the most.
So it's we just wanted to kind o
something that's simple enough r
the kids to understand but share with
others or the the teachers can e
for them too and just kind of make it
easier to have everybody be hapr
on the playground or just in sc.
Yeah. And I do think that we learn a lot
from kids because they, they just come
straight from God with empathy. Right.
But it is something that we neeo
continue to teach them, right. Empathy.
Exactly. Right. Yeah.
It's just one of those.
You got to understand the
differences and kind of
embrace those differences, too.
And that's what we try to do.
And inclusion's a big part of i.
So that's why we kind of wrote this thing.
Yeah. And people do need help.
And sometimes help is just like,
you know, being just,
I mean really simple little
things can help a lot of people.
Just pulling them into the circle. Right.
Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I.
I mean the kids, their, their innocence,
their wisdom is is truly amazin.
And what about perspective,
how you wrote about perspective? It's
it's more of how we all look at
different things and we can't negatively,
you know look at someone and go,
oh, your your opinion is wrong.
We can't do it that way.
We have to kind of embrace whath
other kind of sees and understand that
we come from different places ae
might like one thing and someone else
might like something else and it's okay.
It's totally fine.
And as adults all know,
parenting is perseverance.
My goodness, every day you got to wake
up and start over, right? Right.
But being a kid and having perseverance
and and being maybe the hero,
that that doesn't just go
along with the crowd, right?
Is that something that you kind of wanted
to hit on? Yeah, absolutely.
And and you know, being unique,
being yourself not being afraid to be
yourself and and giving it your.
You know, something seems
insurmountable. Keep going,
keep going. I think that's why
when you drew all these super cl
pictures of these kids too and they're
awesome and just everybody's different.
That's what's that's what's so good about.
Look at these these pictures
are they really just speak to.
It's just phenomenal.
It started as part of an Instagram challenge,
the 100 day project and I challenged myself.
I had never drawn faces before.
I always left faces blank If I did anything.
I was afraid of the judgment anI
thought you know what I need to try this.
So I started to create them and they were
just basic drawings in the very beginning.
And I continued to push every d.
The perseverance for 100 days, 100 days.
And this is what developed as a result.
And I I knew I'm looking into their eyes.
I knew that there was a message
they had and Brian was the one
who helped bring that to life.
Oh, it's a wonderful book.
Congratulations on all the accolades and
congratulations on this beautiful book.
It has got some great messages for sure,
for all of us, that's for sure.
And it won't let everyone know t
it's available at bookstores all over
the place and we will be right .