Inside: How to have a parenting growth mindset to help our kids succeed and grow and learn they can keep on getting better at hard things. Last night, around my family dinner table, we threw a party for my 9-year-old son. We toasted him, we praised him, and we whooped and hollered. My son, who […]
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Holiday Art with Pointillism
Inside: Celebrate the holidays around the year with these pointillism art projects that are fun and easy to do with kids at home or in the classroom. In our family, we love holidays. We have boxes and boxes of holiday decorations for each and every holiday. And no holiday is too “small” to have its […]
6 Ways to Help your Child be Kind Online
Inside: Learn 6 ways to help your child be kind online as you guide them to use the internet in this digital age. Imagine your child comes home in tears because a rumor about them is being spread. They’re devastated. And embarrassed. And hurt. And sad. And confused. And mad. As their parent, you’re feeling […]
Books to Help Kids Be Includers
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 […]