Summer is around the corner and I could not be more excited. No more alarm clocks and packing school lunches and checking homework. This mama is checked out. And if you’re an educator, those get me to summer feelings are quadrupled. When I taught it wasn’t just waiting for summer, it was a desperate […]
Raising Kind Kids
Kindness Water Splashes Kind or Unkind Sort for SEL Curriculum
Inside: Use this kindness water splashes hands-on activity to help students decide what is kind and what is not kind in this sel curriculum sort. As a student and then as a teacher and now as a mom with kids in school, we love summer around here. It’s days with no alarm clocks, no summer […]
When Your Tween Yells At You-How to Respond in a Calm Way
Inside: When your tween yells at you, it’s hard to know what to do and how to respond. But during their tween tantrum and their lack of control during their hormone surge, parents have to do one thing. Ugh. You never listen to me. You don’t care about me. I won’t do it. You can’t […]
Kindness Suns: Kind or Unkind Sort for SEL Curriculum
Inside: Use the kindness suns activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way this summer. I often joke that I’m solar powered…I refill and recharge when I’m in the sun because I always feel physically and mentally better after a day in the sun. Growing up in Southern California, the sun was a […]
How to Countdown to Summer Break as You Spread Kindness
Inside: Countdown to Summer Break and focus on kindness at the same time by using this Kindness Countdown to Summer Break Paper Chain. I will never forget my last year teaching…the burnout was real. And the stretch from Spring Break to Summer break felt longer than before and my mental health was in the toilet. […]