Handmade Gifts: Handprint Inspirations
We’re always on the lookout for great homemade, kid-made gift ideas.
Hand-made gift-giving fills kids with a sense of pride and accomplishment and magnanimous generosity, feelings not usually included in pre-packaged items.
My own lack...
Happy May Day!
This morning, in the words of Little Miss, we turned May Day into a verb.
“I love May Daying!” She told me as she raced her sister to our neighbors front doors.
We may not be changing the world or making an impact on the critical...
A Compassionate Compass & the Art of Flexible Resolutions
I’m tired of all the rants against resolutions. I’m seriously sick of the countless statistics predicting imminent failure.
And I might as well admit it. I’m a geek for resolutions. What’s the harm of looking ahead, digging...
3 Small Ways to Have a More Thoughtful Holiday Gathering
Perhaps you’ve been in my shoes. Maybe you’ve mentioned to family members that you use the resources at Doing Good Together to teach your kids about kindness and community. Maybe you’ve been discussing how thoughtful it was...
Repost: Gracious Receiving
Enjoy this re-post from the 2010 giving season and help your whole family practice gracious receiving.
Our family’s holiday unwrapping extravaganza is fast approaching. As much as we tried to scale back on gifts to each other and extend...
Time to Reflect (featuring DGT’s first home video)
So many good volunteer ideas are flying through my in-box and down my Facebook feed these days. I can barely read them all, much less attempt each one. Sometimes five minutes really is just four and a half minutes too many.
The truth is, this...
Thoughtful Holiday Traditions… Share yours!
What traditions of generosity does your family cherish during the holidays?
Like all of you, we’re striving to minimize the wish lists, shopping trips, and general over-consumption of the holiday. My hope is that our traditions, focusing...
A Toast & A Thanks
Happy Thanksgiving!
Let me share with you my favorite toast. It is wonderfully appropriate for every meal during Help the Hungry Month, and especially so on Thanksgiving Day. It’s actually a Latin American prayer that I adapted from Cook...
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...
Love & Appreciation
Aahh, Valentine’s Day. This holiday is tricky. It can be seen as a plague among the unintentionally single. It’s resoundingly denounced by the conscientiously anti-consumerist. For parents of young children, however, nothing’s...
