Kindness Practice
MiaLisa Millares
When the Invisible Load Gets Heavy: Finding ...

For many parents, the hardest part of family life isn’t just everything we do. It’s everything we have to remember. The invisible load—the constant mental tracking, planning, anticipating, and organizing that keeps family life moving—can be exhausting.

When the Invisible Load Gets Heavy: Finding More Meaning in a Busy Family Schedule
Kindness Practice, Big Hearts in Action, Parent with Purpose
Leah Lundquist
Fill Your Summer with Kindness

As you are mapping out your summer bucket list, Doing Good Together is here to help with ideas for meaningful kindness.

Fill Your Summer with Kindness
Parent with Purpose, Holiday Traditions
Leah Lundquist
50+ Kids' Gift Ideas with Kindness at Their Core

50+ kids’ gift ideas with kindness at their core! Gift giving opportunities pop up throughout the year, from annual holiday, birthday, and anniversary celebrations, to one-time milestone moments like graduations, major accomplishments, or just because. With the overabundance of consumerism in our culture, it’s natural for parents who care about the world to want to be mindful of what they're purchasing, not wanting junk to accumulate in their homes. That’s why we assembled this tried-and-true gift guide of favorite presents with kindness at their core. You’ll find special projects and tools that keep kids busy, encourage reflection, and encourage conversations; activities, items, and games that help them explore and understand the world around them; apparel that supports good causes, and more.

50+ Kids' Gift Ideas with Kindness at Their Core
Kindness Practice
Leah Lundquist
Start a Kindness Book Club: Ideas for ...

Everything is better with friends and a party! 

How about friends and a party and an amazing book? As a parent, September feels like a fresh start, a new year. It’s full of opportunity as the school year gears up along with a new season of activities and sports. I’m going to suggest one more thing to start this year - a big-hearted book party club! 

Start a Kindness Book Club: Ideas for Elementary Age Kids
Kindness Practice
MiaLisa Millares
Kinetic Kindness: 6 Active Ways to Get Kids ...

Learn ways to include kindness lessons in educational settings and beyond! Through learning about kindness, children learn empathy and compassion and can begin viewing the world around them through the eyes of others as they appreciate diverse perspectives. By building kindness activities into regular educational practices, we prepare kids for life as an adult who cares and contributes to the world around them. If action speaks louder than words in early childhood, why not get their bodies, minds, and hearts involved in caring for their communities?

Kinetic Kindness: 6 Active Ways to Get Kids Moving — While Giving Back
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Expand Your Circle: 6 Fun Ways to Reach Out, Teach Empathy, and Embrace Differences

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Finding our tribe is good for our health. It's good for our jobs. It helps us live longer. But do our tribes limit our social experiences? We need to intentionally throw open the gates to new friendships and new social experiences if we’re going to expand our cultural boundaries and unlearn the prejudice that's unraveling our country.

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On Mindfulness: Nine Tools for a More Grateful, Peaceful, and Connected Family Life

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Unless we adopt healthy, intentional habits in our everyday family life, our best efforts at mindfulness will wind up like so many other things on our check lists: multi-tasked into meaninglessness, plowed through quickly, and crossed off before our goal is reached.

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The Wisdom of Kindness: 10 Life Lessons Children Learn by Doing Good

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Helping others is reward enough. Yet an intentional family practice of kindness and volunteering teaches lessons that will last a lifetime.