Inside: How to give your kids a low key summer filled with old school summer fun like we had when were kids. With summer fast approaching I’m already a little worried about how my kids are going to spend their days. They’re going to want the screens. And I’m all for a little screen time. […]
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How to Encourage Sibling Kindness with an Ice Cream Kindness Challenge
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, […]
How to Show Kindness to Moms on Mother’s Day
Inside: Show kindness to moms on Mother’s Day with this Mommy Is Poem free printable you can download, print and have kids fill out as a Mother’s day gift or a Mother’s Day card. Every day, our moms do everything for us. And to be honest with you, this isn’t news to you. Because if […]
How to Celebrate Earth Day with these Kind Earth Day Activities for Kids
Inside: Over 18 Earth Day Activities for kids to help them be kind to the Earth with a free printable. My daughter came home from school the other day and as she unpacked her backpack and lunchbox she made a declaration. Our school has a no trash lunch policy and I hadn’t really been following […]
How to Help Your Special Needs Kid Find Real Friends
Inside: How parents can help their special needs kids find real friends and real connections with their peers. Update: This was republished from an article written four years ago when my daughter was in elementary school. She’s now in middle school and is still on a quest to find good friends. And it all still […]