Inside: Use this New Year’s Kindness Challenge to encourage more kindness and give kids lots of chances to practice being kind this January. Every year, we get the opportunity to start over, to have a fresh start. And it comes on January 1st. Many of us start the year off on a stong foot with […]
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Christmas Kindness Challenge to Encourage More Kindness
Inside: Use this Christmas Kindness Challenge to encourage more kindness and give kids lots of chances to practice being kind this December. December is the most wonderful time of the year. Well, maybe. For our kids, it can feel overwhelming, overstimulating, and overscheduled. One simple way to slow December and the holiday craziness down is […]
Apple Back to School Kindness Challenge to Encourage More Kindness
Inside: Use this Apple Back to School Kindness Challenge to encourage more kindness and give kids lots of chances to practice being kind. As we head into back to school season, teachers are setting up classrooms, creating lesson plans, and unjamming the copier. But they’re also spending time getting their class lists and crossing their […]
Pizza Kindness Challenge to Encourage More Kindness
Inside: Use this Pizza Kindness Challenge to encourage more kindness and give kids lots of chances to practice being kind. When I was a kid, the best reward was a pizza party. If we did our homework, we could earn a pizza party. If we were celebrating a holiday, we had a pizza party. We […]
Back to School Role Playing to Practice Kindness
Inside: Use these Back to School Role Playing Kindness Cards with kids to practice how to be kind towards others as they head back to school. While there is no one way to be kind, there are many ways to be unkind. And when kids are headed into a new situation, like heading to school, […]