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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]