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Tell Me Something Kind You Did Today

Tell Me Something Kind You Did Today

Last school year I asked the same question each day on the drive home from school: What did you do today that was kind? It started for a few different reasons, but caught on and turned into more of an important conversation starter than I expected. In the days ahead, we’ll all start to send our kids back to school…. Read More

20 Books About Race & Racism for Children

20 Books About Race & Racism for Children

I’ve thought so many times over the past few days: we must do better. For me, right now, that means making sure I am teaching my 5 children about race, racism and how to treat all people. I almost always turn to books when it comes to teaching my children, especially the hard things for me to explain. I didn’t… Read More

Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed: Teaching Kids Kindness

Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed: Teaching Kids Kindness

Back in January, Julie and I decided that one thing we wanted to focus on this year, was sharing ways to teach kids about kindness. Children are never too young to learn about kindness, but it’s not always easy to teach very young children about how to show kindness to others. Of course, the best way to teach little ones… Read More

Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed: A School Lesson Plan

Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed: A School Lesson Plan

As part of our big day of sharing “ordinary kindness”, I’m excited to have my cousin Kristin guest posting on the blog. Kristin is a teacher, and read the book Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed to her class.  She also came up with a great lesson plan to go along with the story. – Courtney Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed: A School Lesson Plan … Read More

Spread the Love for Valentine’s Day with Kids!

Spread the Love for Valentine’s Day with Kids!

For more Valentine inspiration,  please follow our Pinterest boards for our latest pins or visit our Seasonal tab for all of our Valentine related posts! We have another fun post for you all as part of our Kids and Kindness series.  Today, I am sharing two easy ideas on how to spread a little love for Valentine’s Day (or really any time of the… Read More

Join the Challenge and Card It Forward! (& Giveaway)

Join the Challenge and Card It Forward! (& Giveaway)

Everything in our world is digital now.  Magazines, books, and even e-cards.  But I have to tell you that as a stay at home mom one of the highlights of my day is that short little trip to the mailbox and back in the hopes for something exciting to appear.  Most often it is bills or junk mail, but there’s… Read More

Valentine’s Day Kindness

Valentine’s Day Kindness

It’s Valentine’s Week at The Chirping Moms! To keep up with all the Valentine posts this week, browse around or visit our “Seasonal” tab up top. Be sure to enter the giant Valentine’s Giveaway here. Last week we introduced you to a new series on our blog, called Kids & Kindness. I think Valentine’s Day is an important time to… Read More

Kids and Kindness

Kids and Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is never wasted. – Aesop We want to introduce a series that we will be sharing all year long called Kids and Kindness. Watching my kids during the holiday season, I realized how much joy that they have in “giving” to others may it be dropping some change in the Salvation Army… Read More