Inside: This Winter Kindness Challenge is a fun and simple way to encourage our kids to spread kindness this winter. There are 4 activities for December, January and February. I was holiday shopping with my daughters and this gorgeous Christmas tree was in the center of the store. The tree was covered in paper angels […]
How to Raise Kids Who Are Helpers Who Want to be Helpful
Inside: Want to raise kids who are helpers? Kids who help others because they are genuinely kind people and want to help? Here are 8 ways to help teach them to be helpers and 20 ideas they can do right now. I was standing in a crowd of people with my family and I looked […]
How to Pick Out a Teacher Gift They Really Want
Inside: A teacher gift can be hard to choose. It’s hard to know what they really want. But this list, created by an elementary school teacher and vetted by her elementary school teacher friends has exactly what teachers want for the holidays. Choose from this list and you can’t go wrong. As an elementary school […]
How to Learn and Celebrate Multicultural Holidays with Kids
Inside: Use this We Celebrate Differently Interactive Emergent Reader to help learn and celebrate multicultural holidays with kids. When my daughter was in fourth grade, we had a Girl Scout meeting in December where each girl got to share about their culture and December holiday. And luckily, we had a very diverse group of girls […]
35+ Gifts for Kind Kids to Inspire Them to Be Even Kinder
Want to raise kind kids? Pick out something from this Gifts for Kind Kids list that will encourage your kids to be kinder every day. My daughter came home from school today wearing her older brother’s long sleeve shirt. “What are you wearing,” I asked her? She nonchalantly told me that since she was cold at […]