How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids

GREAT BOOK FOR BUILDING SELF ESTEEM

THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK TO HELP CHILDREN UNDERSTAND WHY OUR FEELINGS
GET HURT. HOW THE JOY OR PAIN CAN BUILD IN A DAY BY HOW FULL OR EMPTY OUR BUCKET BECOMES. IT ALSO STRESSES THAT WE ARE ALL IN CHARGE OF KEEPING OUR BUCKET FULL.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Fabulous Book to Talk About Feelings

I was looking for a book to help my six year old son understand positive and negative feelings. He was struggling socially with other kids at school. After reading the book, I started asking my son each evening to tell me three things that were a "drop in his bucket" (positive) at school. This really helped him focus his energy in a positive direction and not focus on his frustrations with other kids in the classroom. A few months have passed and the topic of "drops in his bucket" is still often brought up and discussed in our home. The concept of the story is applicable (and flexible!) to help explain so many new situations that my six year old encounters! It provides a way for him to break down and better understand situations that contend with feelings and emotions. I highly recommend this book to other families looking for a story that helps younger kids grow and begin to understand the feelings and emotions that are inside of them.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

How Full is Your Bucker a must read!

Used this book in my 6th grade class as a character trait activity. The positive climate has increased because they comment on filling or dipping from "my bucket." It is a must read for families and classroom teachers.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Amazing - Great Lesson for All

I used this book as a lesson for my students. They enjoyed the book, and understood the lesson it was teaching. This was a great way to teach children to show kindness and love towards others. We use it as a great way to remind students when they are unkind to others that they are taking from other kid's buckets and how to fill each other buckets as well as their own with kindness towards others.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

GREAT BOOK FOR KIDS

My son is 6 years old and he love this book. The story is straight forward and very easy for him to understand. We used the bucket scenario all the time now to communicate.

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Great story with a wonderful message.

It is summertime and our grandchildren are out of school with time on their hands. Time better spent reading good books with great messages.
This book compliments The Seven Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey.
By the end of the summer our grandchildren will be better prepared to deal with the challenges the new school year brings.

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Great for Kids and Teachers!

I plan to use this book in my classroom in the fall at the beginning of the year. It teaches a valauable lesson about how to treat others. It is also great for a self esteem builder!

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Great book for kids!

This book is a great way to teach your children some valuable life lessons!

Wonderful book!

This is a great book to help children realize that we all react to others, and being aware of others feelings.

highly recommend this book

Bought for grand daughter because it was read to them in school. She did make reference to the book in a situation that arose. It is a great book.

Loved it!

It really helped me illustrate to my 8 year old how different things can affect how we feel and how we need to watch how we treat others. He loved it! The illustrations are wonderful.

Great for children of all ages!

As an elementary classroom teacher, I use this book frequently to introduce students to the power they have to fill their own "emotional buckets" by filling those of others. I've also found it helpful to discuss how we choose our friends. For example, it's interesting to explore how the "popular" kids often are NOT those who fll our buckets (i.e., the "mean girls"). This book truly empowers children to nurture those around them while making good decisions that nurture themselves. The illustrations are clear and esciting, as is the author's message. This is a FABULOUS book!

Perfect!

My children love this book (5 & 3 yrs). When things are not going well or one of them isn't being nice, all I have to say is, "How full is your bucket?" And attitudes change.

Bucket Filling 101

How Full Is Your Bucket? for Kids by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer perfectly complements our Bucket-Filling mindset at our elementary school. It tells the story of Felix, a young lad who inadvertently dips out of his sister's bucket by telling her she's too little to play with him. When she retaliates, he gets a taste of how it feels when someone dips out of your bucket. Using the Bucket Filling and Dipping metaphor, Grandpa steps in to help the boy understand the effect that people's behavior can have on one another. Travel with Felix as his school family makes emotional deposits and withdrawals all day long; watch what happens as he starts to see the positive effects of Bucket Filling and the negative effects of Bucket Dipping, not only on others, but also for himself. Cleverly illustrated by Maurie J. Manning - who also illustrated another one of my favorites, Getting To Know Ruben Plotnick - this adaptation from the original adult version of the book conveys the Bucket-Filling notion so comprehensively and age-appropriately that kids will easily grab ahold of such an abstract concept and apply it to their daily lives - even the family dog has an invisible bucket. Why not check out this book; I enthusiastically recommend it for your character building.

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