Inside: Help kids figure out who their great, true, real friends are with this friendship checklist they can use to decide for themselves. When I was in middle school, I had a few friends my mom didn’t like. She told me she would let me decide if I was going to continue my friendship with […]
bully prevention
Celebrate our Differences: We Are All Shades of Brown Reader
Inside: Use this We Are All Shades of Brown Emergent Reader to celebrate our differences and also showcase how similar we are. I’m about as fair-skinned as they come. So when I first started teaching my very diverse group of Kindergartners during my first year of teaching, one of the first things I did was […]
Get Kids to Be Kind More Often with these 60 Kindness Questions
Inside: To encourage your kids to be kind, download these free printables with 60 kindness questions you can use to talk with your kids about how to be kinder people. As my daughter got in the car this afternoon after school, I asked her to tell me three things about her school day. After telling […]
What to Do When Your Child Has Been Bullied: 12 Steps
Is your child being bullied? Here’s what to do when your child has been bullied in 12 steps. 1 in 5 kids will be bullied. Is your kiddo one of them? When your child comes home with bullying stories, it can be hard to know what to do. But sadly, I’ve been there, several times: Mean […]
How to Use The Skittles Game to Encourage Your Kids to Be Kinder
Inside: Use this Skittles Game printable to talk to your kids about kindness, being a good friend, bullies and being a helper. My third-grade son came home with stories of being teased by his “friends” the other day. Apparently, he’s been assigned to be reading partners with one of the sweetest girls ever and he’s […]