Inside: Use these 8 strategies to help you stay calm as a parent when you’re triggered by your kids’ behavior. If you want to yell less and stay calm more, this will help. Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about. Big girls don’t cry. Act your age. Pull it together. Put on […]
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Social Emotional Learning 180 Daily Questions for Classrooms
Inside: Use these Social Emotional Learning 180 Daily Questions to start conversations about kindness, empathy, compassion, and being a good friend. When I taught third grade, we were focused on multiplication, cursive, the solar system, Native American and Indigenous studies, and of course reading and math. But one day, someone passing by our class dropped […]
Easter Kindness Challenge for Kids for April
Inside: Use this Easter Kindness Challenge to encourage more kindness during March and April and give kids lots of chances to practice being kind. Easter has always been a favorite holiday, even though in family it’s not a religious holiday. So we celebrate the holiday and have fun with egg hunts, and Easter bunny visits, […]
How to Help Siblings Adjust to a New Baby with Kindness
Inside: Use these 12 gentle parenting strategies to help siblings adjust to a new baby with kindness and with less resentment and frustration. When I was pregnant with my second child everyone starting warning me, it’s triple the work so good luck… And they always said it with a hint of I know something you […]
Valentine’s Day Kindness Challenge for Kids in February
Inside: Use this Valentine’s Day Kindness Challenge to encourage more kindness during the month of February and give kids lots of chances to practice being kind. Valentine’s Day is filled with chocolate and cards and goodies…it’s also the perfect time for kindness, like when we give Valentine cards to classmates, we give valentines to all […]