Inside: Help your kids deal with negative media influences and balance it with your family values of kindness, empathy, and compassion with these 6 strategies. My hubby and I made a list of all the movies we watched as kids we wanted to show to our kids and the top of our list was the […]
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9 Ways to Help Kids Stand Up to Peer Pressure to Make Kinder Choices
Inside: Help your kids with these 9 strategies so they can successfully stand up to peer pressure and make kinder choices towards others. Once upon a time, a little girl picked her nose at school. Ew, that’s so gross. She’s so gross. Look how gross she is. Oh my God, she’s so gross. Ew. I […]
How to Use Kindness Bookmarks to Encourage Kindness
Inside: Use these kindness bookmarks to encourage kids to remember to be kind even when they’re reading books with unkind characters. In our house, there are books stacked in every room in our house…bedrooms, the kitchen and the bathroom. We have books stashed in the car and books piled haphazardly in our several bookcases. And […]
How to Help Kids Who Are Drawn to the Mean Girls
Inside: Peer pressure is hard to deal with for our young kids…especially when they get caught up with the mean girls at school. Here are ways to help walk them through it and stay kind. My daughter came home with big news today. She has been accepted into the JoJo Siwa club on the playground. […]
How to Teach Kids to Celebrate our Differences
Inside: We need to go beyond teaching diversity and embracing multicultural studies…we need to celebrate our differences so we can truly begin to value each other. When my eldest was in 5th grade her small, but diverse Girl Scout troop wanted to have a meeting in December. The girls decided to share their December family […]