Inside: Help your kids focus on kindness this December with these 24 daily Christmas Kindness Activities that can be turned into a Christmas Countdown Advent Calendar. Every December, we hear about the Naughty and Nice list. Kids get threatened with coal in their stockings, and we sing songs about Santa who “sees you when you’re […]
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Tattling vs. Telling and Why Kids Need to Know the Difference
Inside: How parents and teachers can teach kids the difference between tattling vs. telling and why they need to know the difference. When I was young, I worked at a florist for a boss who would often leave me to go to a bar for lunch. One day as we closed up, she got in […]
How to Help Kids Be More Thoughtful and Considerate
Inside: Help your kids be more thoughtful and considerate by using these two strategies to help kids be less self-centered. It will allow them to be kind, and avoid intentionally and unintentionally hurt people’s feelings. I took one of my kids out to get a special treat on a date. It was one of our […]
Why Our Kids Don’t Need to Be Nice
Inside: Our kids don’t need to be nice. But they do need to be something else: kind. Click here to learn the difference between nice and kind and how you can raise kinder kids. The other day, my mom was in line at Target chatting on the phone with me while she waited to check […]
25 Things Every Parent Has to Know About Raising Kind Kids
Inside: Get answers to the most common parenting questions about raising kind kids…here are 25 things every parent needs to know about how to raise kind kids. Most parents want their kids to grow up to be good people. The parents who don’t care about raising their kids to be helpful and generous and kind […]