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 […]
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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 […]
Celebrate our Differences: We Are All Shades of Brown Reader
Inside: Use this We Are All Shades of Brown Emergent Reader to celebrate our differences and also showcase how similar we are. I’m about as fair-skinned as they come. So when I first started teaching my very diverse group of Kindergartners during my first year of teaching, one of the first things I did was […]
Get Kids to Be Kind More Often with these 60 Kindness Questions
Inside: To encourage your kids to be kind, download these free printables with 60 kindness questions you can use to talk with your kids about how to be kinder people. As my daughter got in the car this afternoon after school, I asked her to tell me three things about her school day. After telling […]
What to Do When Your Child Has Been Bullied: 12 Steps
Is your child being bullied? Here’s what to do when your child has been bullied in 12 steps. 1 in 5 kids will be bullied. Is your kiddo one of them? When your child comes home with bullying stories, it can be hard to know what to do. But sadly, I’ve been there, several times: Mean […]