This uplifting book was the winner of 8 Mom’s Choice Awards. It is a great reminder for everyone about the importance of kindness and lifting each other up. I referenced a lot of thoughts and ideas that I had while reading this book during several conversations with educators in school age programs. It made me think about positive group reinforcements for being kind to one another every day. Through conversations with both the educators and children, we came up with an idea to have physical buckets for each child in the program and a big jar of pom poms to put in another child’s bucket when someone noticed them doing something nice for a peer, or just being kind throughout the afternoon.

I hope this book will also inspire you to continue the conversation of passing along kindness and filling other’s buckets as you fill yours.

Find it in the CISS Resource Library here

Meghan Hightower Smith, RECE
CISS Resource Consultant