Inside: Teaching our kids to be includers, to welcome and include other kids, is incredible. These books about including others will help teach that. Imagine a playground full of loud, happy, busy kids. Everyone is playing basketball or on the jungle gym or eating their snack under the shade of a tree. Well, almost everyone. […]
Family Volunteer Challenge for January
Inside: This year to spread more kindness, more giving and more generosity, join us in our family volunteer challenge. You can start any month! My family and I spent a Saturday morning standing in front of a grocery store together. We weren’t selling anything. But were asking for something: As people headed into the grocery […]
How to Teach Your Kids to Be Kind Without Being Taken Advantage Of
Inside: How to help our kids be kind without being taken advantage of or becoming a doormat. Learning to say no and be kind to yourself is a necessary life skill. I was on a crowded freeway the other day and tons of cars were trying to merge into my lane. Here in Los Angeles, […]
How to Spread Kindness with this Friendship Plate
Inside: Want a simple kindness gesture that’s easy to do with your kids? Spread cookies and kindness with this friendship plate that’s meant to be passed from friend to friend. When we moved into our new home, neighbors all around brought us goodies when they came to introduce themselves. Homemade banana bread. A store-bought pie. […]
How to Make Friendship Cookies to Bake with Friends
Inside: To help build up friendships, host a baking playdate with friends and ask each person to bring a special ingredient to make and then eat Friendship Cookies. When I was a young girl in Girl Scouts, we used to make something called a Friendship Salad. Each girl would bring a piece of cut-up fruit […]