Inside: Gratitude can’t just be taught during Thanksgiving. We need to purposefully teach our kids to be grateful and we can use these meaningful year-round gratitude activities to do focus on it. I offered my daughter a cookie the other day and she immediately counteroffered. “Can I have two cookies?” she asked. I just stared […]
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Kindness Zoo Bundle for SEL Curriculum
Inside: Use this Kindness Zoo Bundle with kindness emergent reader, and writing prompts to teach SEL Curriculum and connect to language arts skills at the same time. What’s your favorite animal? Chances are, it’s probably an animal you’ll find in a zoo. When I was young, I wrote a whole persuasive essay on why I […]
How to Easily Spread Kindness to Neighbors
Inside: These 6 easy ways to spread kindness to neighbors will brighten their day and make their days easier. Last year we moved from one lovely neighborhood to another. In our last neighborhood where we lived for 15 years, we were close with only one neighbor. But we really didn’t know anyone else well or […]
Family Volunteer Challenge for May
Inside: Spread kindness as a family through this Family Volunteer Challenge for May by helping people who are food insecure. There are so many different causes in the world to help. So many volunteer opportunities. So many ways to give to others. But the one that has always pulled me in, and affected me the […]
Summer Kindness Bucket List to Fight Summer Boredom
Inside: Use this summer kindness bucket list to fight summer boredom and to help kids speak and act with more kindness this summer. We’re on countdown mode to the end of school. Summer is always a welcome reprieve after the long school year (and the craziness of May), the early morning rush to get to […]