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That ‘Bully’ is Your Child
My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it’s wrong! What’s really going on? Try not to make somebody else’s life miserable because you are. – Joe Nichols Let me begin by saying that I...
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Educating Your Child in Body Safety
We teach our children water safety and road safety — it is equally important to teach our children ‘body safety’ from a very young age. As both a teacher and a mother, I strongly recommend to all...
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Building Mindful, Resilient and Focused Learners
As a mother of three teenage daughters and an experienced elementary school teacher, I am deeply concerned about our kids. Let me explain. Children today live in a world filled with technology — ipad...
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Crumpled Paper Bullying Exercise 4 All Ages
A teacher in New York used the crumpled paper exercise to show her students the last impact that bullying can have. She gave her kids take a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up and stomp on...
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Hypnotizing Your Children For Positive Self-Esteem
When you look back on your childhood, I imagine one thing that comes to mind are particular phrases or saying you heard your parents say on a regular basis. These are most likely the same things they...
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Service Learning: Knit For Service Club
The Knit-For Service Club began in 2004 with twenty members and has grown to eighty-plus boys and girls who knit to help others. The first year, we made one patchwork blanket to donate to Harold, the...
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Substitute Mother – Teaching My Daughter Empathy
My daughter has been having difficulty with a girl at school. This girl “Mary” became a bit of a stalker and it became quite intense. It was manageable during school hours, but it was the constancy of...
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Is Baby Proofing Disadvantaging Your Child?
13 years ago I was expecting my first child. It had taken us a while to get pregnant with our first as I had undiagnosed health problems, so we were delighted with the news. We did everything that...
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Why Affirmations Are Important For Children
As important as it is for parents to encourage, love and support their children, it is just as important that children learn to create this within themselves. It is very empowering for a child to...
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The Parent-Teacher Partnership
You’ve heard the old saying “it takes a village to raise a child”. When it comes to their education, the same principle should be applied in the form of a positive and proactive partnership between...
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Students… The Teachers of Kindness in Schools
Some children spend more of their time awake at school than they do in their own homes. That’s a big thing when you’re still growing and learning. It’s a big thing too for parents to entrust their...
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Creating a Happier Classroom With Gratitude
Gratitude … goes beyond the “mine” and “thine” and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past, I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts...
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This Teacher Reduces Bullying by Teaching Kindness
In the book, Wonder by R.J. Palacio, she writes about Choosing Kind as the best option in life. This phrase resonated with me and sparked a new appreciation on how I discuss bullying with my 6th...
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15 Inspiring Kindness Trees Found In Schools
A Kindness Tree is a beautiful way to focus on and acknowledge the importance of showing kindness within a school. The tree helps foster more kind, supportive relationships amongst students and...
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11 Heartwarming Examples of Kids Being Kind
Image supplied by Love for the Elderly. Image supplied by Andrew Mead, George Waters Middle School. Image supplied by Barbara Gruener, Westwood Bales Elementary. Image supplied by Coffee Cups...
View ArticleMy Teacher Cared About ME!
You often talk about the positive influences of teachers on Ripple Kindness and I couldn’t agree more, and I want to share how a teacher has helped me. I’m a student and I was struggling recently with...
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5 Tips for Teaching Children to be Kind to Animals
World Kindness Day is a celebration of what most people consider our species’ best set of qualities: compassion, consideration for others, respect and generosity. Kindness shouldn’t be limited to any...
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Could Well Behaved Children Be At Greater Risk?
My children are very well behaved. They are well-mannered, obedient, and they ‘do as they are told.’ Great right? I’m not so sure. I became increasingly aware that my kids were blindly following...
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Why Is Kindness Good For You?
When people, especially strangers, go out of their way to do a good deed for us, it touches our heart. My children and I were sitting in a doctor’s office recently and I was blown away by the kindness...
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Books for bedtime
A book. One single book. Many people don’t realize how important having one book can be in the life of a child. The post Books for bedtime appeared first on Ripple Kindness Project.
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