Inside: How to keep our parenting emotions in check and not blow up when our kids are unkind. Sitting at my daughter’s soccer practice, there were two little kiddos on the sidelines playing together. They couldn’t have been older than three. And one hit the other one. Let’s pause: Hitting is not okay because […]
18 Ways to Stay Sane When You’re Stuck Indoors With Kids
Inside: Stuck at home with kids because of school closures, rainy days, snow days or the Coronavirus/COVID-9? Use these 18 ideas to help keep your sanity when you’re stuck indoors with your kids. We all know parenting is a tough job on a good day. But when you’re stuck indoors because of 10 feet of […]
How to Help Your Kids Be Includers
Inside: Do you want to raise kind kids? Then you also need to know how to help your kids to be includers, welcomers, a person who invites others to join in. It’s the highest form of kindness there is. “Do you want to play with me?” My daughter was playing a game with a friend […]
How to Use Kindness Affirmations to Help Kids Be Kind
Inside: Help your kids be kinder to themselves and kinder to others with these kindness affirmations to remind them to speak and act with kindness. Ugh. I’m such a bad drawer. This is so ugly. I suck at soccer. I’m never going to score a goal. This dress looks bad on me. My legs aren’t […]
Family Volunteer Challenge for March
Inside: Spread kindness as a family through this Family Volunteer Challenge for March by helping cheer up and connect with senior citizens with this simple art project. After my grandma passed away years ago, my mom handed me a gigantic accordion folder. Inside, it was almost every note, card and drawing I had ever made […]