Be Your Own Superhero-Use Role Playing To Help Kids Stand Up For Themselves: Unleash the power within Explore creative role-playing ideas to empower kids and help them stand up to unkind acts. In one of our recent posts, The Mirror Of Unkindness-Tips To Empower Kids to Stand Up for Themselves This interactive approach can empower kids to navigate social challenges with more ease and resilience Teamwork Scenarios: Encourage group role-playing where kids work together to address bullying.

The themes we explore—confidence, creativity, calm, gratitude, kindness, empathy, mindfulness, and resilience—aren Teen Gardeners  find grounding in the gardening tools that build self-trust and integrity.

Shanna you were so kind and filled with such enthusiasm for this topic!

This time of year when summer starts to slip into a back to school state of mind, weeds can start to pop up, especially for kids. Today we are sharing some healthy gardening tools to help turn those weeds into seeds and help kids, Practice mindfulness: Mindfulness activities like deep breathing, meditation, and yoga can help gardeners The Summer Switch: Gardening Tools To Help Kids Cope With Back To School Stress: You Are a Gardener®

A kind word, a brave step, a creative idea, or a calming breath—these are the seeds of growth.

Getting kids to share what they experience during the day, either good or bad helps them to 'grow' through However, there are several techniques that you can try to encourage kids to share their experiences with "Who was kind to you today?" "Was anyone unkind to you today?"

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Recipe courtesy of Gardener Kim aka Bear, mother of 2 incredibly kindhearted children. We wish you a day, a year, and a lifetime of love, kindness and celebrations!

You can find beautiful shells at your local craft store, order an eco-friendly set online, or ask a beach-loving under a beach umbrella or mixing up a minty mocktail in your backyard, these simple summer crafts and kid-friendly It’s our way of saying thank you, paying it forward, and planting seeds of kindness by the sea. 👉 Read mixing up a minty mocktail, or simply soaking up some summer calm, these activities help us: Practice mindfulness through hands-on crafting & creating Explore healthy choices with kid-friendly, feel-good sips Strengthen

first connected at the NJMAC conference last year, where we quickly discovered a genuine bond as like-minded ‘gardeners’ committed to spreading seeds of peace, love, kindness, and respect within our communities It is important to cultivate peace and kindness with children of all ages. I can’t wait to start the Pine Cone Painting with my Nanny Kids!

Every day the sun is bright and the wind is blowing, we are finding ourselves outside enjoying it as You can even take a walk together to find your sticks! Then, hang in a in a place where the wind can reach it and you've got yourself a beautiful wind chime Get your kids communicating, problem-solving, and working together! Have your kids completed any of our recent crafts?

Stanhope, NJ, Byram Lakes Elementary School is the home to over 300 amazing students and an incredibly kind The staff and kids loved the assembly, many of them wear their buttons to school everyday. I believe your message is so important, it helps kids navigate their "weeds" and gets them pulled out