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 […]
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Want to Raise Kind Kids? 15 Surprising Things to Ban to Make it Happen
Inside: We all want to raise kind kids. When you ban these 15 surprising things, you will raise kinder kids, and have a kinder home. My goal is to raise kind kids. And I will have done my job right if I raise my kids to help others without being asked, they know how to […]
Ice Cream Kindness Challenge to Encourage Sibling Kindness
Inside: A fun way to encourage sibling kindness when they need extra reminders or more practice with an ice cream kindness challenge. My eldest daughter is a very kind kid. She is the first to help or volunteer or offer up a compliment. To everyone except her siblings. I don’t know what it is, […]
Free Family Activities to Do Together to Connect as a Family
Inside: Use this list of free family activities to do together to connect as a family and build an even stronger family connection. Family is everything. And as my kids are growing up way too fast, they’re all headed in more directions, spending more time away from me and our home. Which means it’s more […]
Kindness Craft: Kind Heart, Happy Heart to Tie Emotions to Kindness
Inside: This kindness craft is the perfect way to connect kindness to feelings of happiness so kids want to speak and act with kindness more often. It’s a great way to focus on social-emotional learning. Last summer, I was a guest speaker at a convention for volunteer Girl Scout troop leaders and we were talking […]