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Choosing Kindness: Part 2 - Teaching Kids to Choose Kindness
Earlier this month, I discussed how one of my son’s middle-school
teachers focused on his kindness towards others as the highlight of our
parent-teacher conference, and how it inspired me to look at my own behavior
and seek ways to choose kindness and reinforce the same with our children.
In this
week’s post, the story continues with a reflection on kindness and tips
for teaching children to choose kindness.
Our son has always been a kind soul. From the time he was
young, he had wha
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Sep 24th 2018
Choosing Kindness: Part 1 - Learning from Our Children
School conferences have generally been good experiences for
my husband and me. With few exceptions, we often hear about our kids’
achievements, how they seem to be doing in class or at school, and hear very
positive things about their behavior.But when our son (who is now entering 10th grade)
was in sixth grade, he hit a rough patch in school. He was doing fine overall,
but definitely not living up to his potential in some classes. Homework had been
missed, projects not done to completion,
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Sep 10th 2018