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Quote of the Week
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
10 Signs You're Raising A Big-Hearted Kid
"Exciting research continues to show broader and more long-lasting benefits to teaching kids compassion than most of us ever expected. It's gratifying to know doing good has an impact on so many levels!
But during the lazy, pajama-clad days of winter break, I got a glimpse of the darker side of doing good. Well... not dark exactly. Let's call it the exhausting side of doing good." [read more]
Reading Corner
 Title: Ordinary Mary's Extra Ordinary Deed
By: Emily Pearson
Ages: 4 - 8
"It can when she’s Ordinary Mary―an ordinary girl from an ordinary school, on her way to her ordinary house―who stumbles upon ordinary blueberries. When she decides to pick them for her neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, she starts a chain reaction that multiplies around the world. Mrs. Bishop makes blueberry muffins and gives them to her paperboy and four others―one of whom is Mr. Stevens, who then helps five different people with their luggage―one of whom is Maria, who then helps five people―including a man named Joseph who didn’t have enough money for his groceries―and so on, until the deed comes back to Mary.
It’s a feel-good story that inspires and celebrates a world full of ordinary deeds!" - Publishers
Recommended by Cubs Editors
Be The Change
Signs that your child is constantly mindful of little moments is really endearing. How about making time for circles of sharing at the end of each day to talk about what they learned while they practiced these small acts of kindness? Getting into their personal feelings of empathy after witnessing the act as a giver and a receiver can be a very powerful moment for the entire family.
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