Inside: Spread kindness as a family through this Family Volunteer Challenge for April by making fleece blankets for animal shelters and pets waiting to get adopted. I hadn’t really ever spent much time at an animal shelter. Until the summer we decided to get a dog. Our last dog had passed away years before and […]
Easter Egg Hunt Idea to Make Easter More Kind and Special
Inside: Spread some kindness with these Easter kindness notes that can be hidden inside Easter Eggs to make your Easter egg hunt more meaningful. My kids love everything about Easter morning. They come downstairs in their matching bunny jammies and we eat bunny shaped pancakes, and they desperately try to wait patiently to go on their […]
Volunteer Challenge for March for Families to Spread Kindness
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 […]
Holiday SEL Bundle of Activities to Teach Character Education
Inside: Use this Holiday SEL Bundle to teach social-emotional learning and character education for each major holiday. In our house, we absolutely live for the holidays. As soon as one holiday is over, we tear down the decorations, put up the new ones and start the countdown to the next holiday. Maybe it’s because in […]
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Welcome and we’re so glad you found us! At Coffee and Carpool: Raising Kind Kids we help parents and educators intentionally teach kids how to be kind, create a stronger family connection, and bully-proof their kids. Nicole Black is a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and mostly survives on […]