Inside: Want a simple way to spread the message of kindness with your kids? Help them make these kindness rocks and hide kind messages for others to find. I took my kids to a fast food restaurant today and there was a young adult who worked there who offered to help us. He greeted us […]
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Books You Need to Raise Kind Kids and Encourage More Kindness
Inside: When we purposefully raise kind kids, one simple way to do it is to read books with messages about kindness and friendship. These are the must-have books you need to raise kind kids plus discussion starter questions about friendship and how to be a kind person. Kindness needs to be explicitly taught. It needs […]
Celebrate Differences and Diversity with the Rainbow Colors of Me
Inside: Celebrate differences and diversity with the Rainbow of Me free printable to help kids see how colorful our world is. During the height of the pandemic, we decided to homeschool our kids for a year rather than do online learning through the schools. And for the first time since they were super little kids, […]
How to Teach Kids to Be Considerate and Mindful of Others
Inside: Raising Kind Kids has to include raising our kids to be considerate and mindful of others. This has a list of ideas of how you can you teach your kids to be more considerate and mindful of others. Yesterday I was in a last minute IEP meeting for my daughter. It was a just […]
Black History Emergent Reader for Social Emotional Learning
Inside: Use this Black History Emergent Reader to focus on and learn about amazing Black Americans during Black History Month in February. As an elementary school teacher, I always laughed when February came around because we were expected to fit so much in. February has Valentine’s Day, Groundhog Day, the 100th Day of School, and […]