Giving Thanks Together
How do YOU help your kids – along with everyone else – observe Thanksgiving mindfully? Share your ideas and have a chance to win Buddha at Bedtime!
We’re doing our best to make Thanksgiving thoughtful this year.
Thoughtful...
Acting Squirrelly with Sticks & Stones
Hibernation season is upon us. Can’t you feel it in the air? You fellow northerners anyway.
Even in the frigid months when snow blankets the ground, I still want Little Miss to be able to indulge in her favorite activity: building toad...
Kinder Book Club & Help the Hungry Week 1 Review
Our family has completed the first week of Help the Hunger month, and it has inspired me to dig up a book I raved about last year.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Buddha at Bedtime: Tales of Love and Wisdom for you to...
Literay Toolbox: Empathy and the Sensitive Child
A few months ago I posted about the possibility of too much empathy. For those of you with an extra-sensitive child, you’ve seen this phenomenon in action.
A very sensitive child can be so aggravated by the plight of another person that...
Filling an Empty Bowl
Our family is learning about hunger during this feast-focused month, and yours can too! We’re setting aside five or ten minutes a day to talk about the problem of food insecurity in a tangible way that will (hopefully) get my kids (ages...
Help the Hungry All November
I’ve been doing a little bit of prep work for November.
That’s the trick, obviously. Accomplishing even the simplest Kitchen Table Projects as a family, much less more involved efforts in the community, requires a quick look ahead...
Operation Paperback
Check out Operation Paperback for a great project that doesn’t take long and is energizing for a young, enthusiastic reader.
Miss First-Grader is consuming simple chapter books at a pace that puts me in the mood for a good Nancy Drew....
Our Kind of World
Thanks to the suggestion of another Doing Good Together family, we’ve started a doing good journal. We call it “Our Kind of World” and it has helped redouble everyone’s efforts to notice the good that happens everyday.
For...
Literary Toolbox: Above All Be Kind
Above All Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times by Zoe Wiel is the next parenting book to surface in my bedside stack. Somehow, in the serendipitous way that books often have, it seems to have the exact message I needed just now.
Maybe...
Help Your Teen Find Meaningful Service Opportunities
Guest post by Marie Schwartz, the President & Founder of TeenLife Media, founded to help families like hers find opportunities for their teens.
Volunteering as a family carries many benefits. As Jenny Friedman has shared with us, children...
