A personalized Kindness Catcher for someone special gives a creative twist to a traditional game. Plus it’s a playful way to encourage acts of kindness.
Inspiring Ways To Spread a Little Kindness
When we witness a kind act, it actually improves our mood, making it more likely we too will be kind. Here are a few inspiring kindness projects and activities to help you spread a little kindness into the world.
Homemade Chalk Creates Community & Art
A wonderful way to add kindness and color to our communities while we shelter-in-place is by creating chalk drawings and writing uplifting chalk messages on driveways and sidewalks. In fact, chalk art is so popular right now, it’s making chalk hard to come by. That’s when knowing how to make homemade chalk comes in handy.
Make a Nature Paintbrush to Create Kindness Cards
Nature and art make perfect companions in this sensory outdoor project. First you’ll use your keen observation skills to collect natural materials outside. Next, you’ll use those items to create a Nature Paintbrush. Finally, you’ll paint beautiful Kindness Cards to send to people you love and care about. Let’s get started!
Peacemaker Thank Yous Connect Gratitude With Peace
Introducing young children to the concept of peace helps them return to those feelings of calm and contentedness when they experience emotional overwhelm. Linking the feeling of peace with a particular person, like a parent, teacher or friend helps reinforce for kids that they’re not alone when they need help regulating.
Service at Home: Make Family Dinners Together
With a quarantine in progress across many parts of the world, now is a perfect opportunity to encourage kids to be of service at home (they might disagree, but stay with me here).
Kindness at Home: Putting Kindness Into Action
I am often urging my children to be more kind. But what does that really mean?
Mindful Parenting Round-up: Teaching Tolerance & Inclusion
Racial bias, bullying and intolerance, mistrust, hatred, discrimination- all of these issues stem from fear of the unknown. One thing we can do as parents is encourage our children to learn about others who are different from them and learn to respect, and not fear those differences. Here are some ideas we have rounded up to help parents teach tolerance and inclusion at home. Continue reading “Mindful Parenting Round-up: Teaching Tolerance & Inclusion”
Hit Your Parenting Limit? Try These Fun(ny) Alternatives to Yelling
Recently one afternoon I was at my wit's end with the girls and the verge of losing my cool. I didn't want to yell, but it was one of those parenting moments we've all experienced when our kids...