Our Family is Filling Buckets!

Our family is filling buckets!  Yep, filling buckets!  Little Miss Muffet was taught about filling/emptying buckets (of kindness & self-esteem) last year during her first year of Preschool!  We've hung onto the tenets of that teaching, and decided to take it to a tangible level for Little Jack Horner!  


There are a couple of books on the topic, but my kids seem to relate to this one!  "How Full is your Bucket for kids," by Tom Rath & Mary Reckmeyer.  If you've never heard of this idea before, the basic idea is that we all have a bucket & it can be filled or emptied by our circumstances & the way we treat others. 


My children are typical siblings - they bicker, they fight & they forgive.  We want to work to decrease the bickering and fighting!  So, we are implementing the "Bucket filling" idea into our every day lives!  


Little Miss Muffet, and I made a visual reminder of how we can fill each other's buckets!  We hung it on the wall nearest their PlaySchool Station in the living room.  


We also picked up a couple of "buckets" & a bunch of colorful pom poms.  I started each of the kids out with 5 pom poms in their buckets, and they can earn more by doing the things on our chart, for one another or our family/friends!  


I'm hoping that Little Miss Muffet will blaze the trail for Little Jack Horner!  We'll take it a day at a time, but, hopefully the bickering & fighting will lessen!  


Maybe your family would benefit from this lesson as well?!  I hope it will bless your lives too. 





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