Have You Filled a Bucket Today? Kids Happiness Guide Book - Teach Children Kindness & Positive Behavior for School, Home & Social Emotional Learning

The 31 page book is a nice way to say by helping make others feel good we feel good, and when people are nice to us it makes us feel good, and when people are mean to us it makes us feel bad and they do it because they don't feel good about themselves.It was good in that it dealt with both adults and children (but it only showed children being mean to other children...I think it is important to give children permission to realize that adults can be bullies also...including their own parents and teachers. Often children think the authority figure is just "right" and accept whatever is said to them.)It was good that it said that a bully dipper was someone that says or did mean things that made others feel bad. And that they did this because they thought that the could fill their own bucket by dipping into someone else's bucket.It was good that it told the reader that when they did good to other they would feel good and fill their own bucket.BUT what I wished it had also said was just TWO more things:1. That you can help fill your own bucket by saying good things to yourself everyday.2. That when you realized someone was dipping into your bucket...that you could help stop them from empting your bucket by asking yourself, "Is this 100% true?"I would have like a few examples with each like:BULLY: You are stupid. BLOCK: My mother says I am smart, and so do my friends...or they say I am nice, loving, good.... What IS stupid? I am smarter than my little brother, does that make him stupid? Sam is smarter than the bully, does that make the bully stupid? IS what the bully said ALL the truth? (of course this needs to be a little simpler maybe...but that's the idea.)BULLY: You are ugly. BLOCK: I may not be the prettiest person, but I am OK. I like how my hair looks. My dog thinks I am beautiful! So WHAT IS the truth? I have a zit right now, but the rest of me is OK, I am NOT ugly.I think that it is IMPORTANT that we take responsibility for ourselves, and our own thoughts and feelings and not just wait for things to happen TO us. I think that is important to teach to children, that though what others say or do to us can hurt us, we can help prevent this and heal this. Otherwise we LEARN stinking thinking, and often don't change even when we become adults.