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 […]
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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 […]
How to Not Blow Up and Yell When Our Kids Are Unkind
Inside: How to keep our parenting emotions in check and not blow up when our kids are unkind. Sitting at my daughter’s soccer practice, there were two little kiddos on the sidelines playing together and one of them had a toy. They couldn’t have been older than three. And one boy hit the other one […]
The Dangers of Telling Secrets and What We Teach Our Kids Instead
Inside: There are several dangers of telling secrets. But we can teach our kids these strategies instead they stay safe and stay kind. My daughter was outside playing with some friends when two of them were huddled in the corner, whispering secrets into each other’s ears. “Let me tell you a secret.” And the […]