Inside: Countdown to Halloween and focus on kindness at the same time by using this Kindness Countdown to Halloween Paper Chain. October to December for any school year is especially crazy as we all try to teach all the things and celebrate all the holidays. Halloween to Winter Break can often feel like a blur […]
Deal with Mean Kids Without Being Mean: 5 Must Know Tips
Inside: 5 tips all parents need to know to deal with mean kids, unkind kids, or bullies while helping our kids stay kind. Oh my god. You can’t even cross the monkey bars yet? You’re such a baby. You can’t play with us because you don’t even know that velcro shoes are dumb. We don’t […]
Friendship Checklist to Help Kids Find Great, Real Friends
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 […]
Kindness Turkeys: Kind or Unkind Sort for SEL Curriculum
Inside: Use the kindness turkeys activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way this fall. On November 1st, the crumply, moldy jack o’lanterns get sent to the trashcans and we bring out the turkeys and Pilgrims. We have to put away the witches and the bats, but we can still keep the holiday […]
Halloween Kindness Activities for Kids
Inside: Use these Halloween kindness activities for kids to focus on and spread kindness during October. Halloween is, of course, a kid favorite holiday. It could be the costumes and dressing up to be anything you want. It could be the Halloween parties, carnivals, and costume parades. Or, it could be the obscene amounts of […]