Friday, March 2, 2012

How Full Is Your Bucket? for kids

How Full Is Your Bucket? for kids by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer
no awards that I'm aware of

This is a great book about feelings and supporting one another. I read it to my kids and I could tell that they "got it" from their behavior that day.

Basic idea is that we all have a bucket (which the kid in this book starts literally seeing floating above his head and other people's heads). When something happens that makes us feel good, our bucket fills up a little, when something happens that makes us feel bad, the water drips out.

Felix, the star of this book, figures out how this works. "The strange thing was that for every drop he helped put in someone else's bucket, he felt another drop in his own bucket."


Useful imagery for talking about feelings. I recommend it. 

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