Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness: Three Rules for a Happier Life

by Carol McCloud, Penny Weber (Illustrator)

Overview

Updated and revised, this 10th Anniversary Edition sequel to the blockbuster hit, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids, advances the bucketfilling concept for pre-teens, teens, and adults. Growing Up breaks new ground through expanded language as it teaches the value of kindness, self-control, resilience, and forgiveness in a world that is not always kind. Readers gain a better understanding of all the ways they can fill and dip into buckets and how to use their lid to keep their own bucket full. Easy-to-read chapters, poignant illustrations, and daily self-reflection questions encourage readers to use their individual power of choice to be daily bucket fillers. Join the thousands of people of all ages and occupations who have read this book, taken the pledge, and practiced the daily skills to happier living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996099998
Publisher:	Cardinal Rule Press
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Edition description:	Second edition
Pages:	88
Sales rank:	281,698
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	860L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 - 18 Years

About the Author

Carol McCloud, the "Bucket Lady," is the author of ten books, which began with the ever-popular Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids in 2006. By trade, Carol is a speaker, author, and certified emotional intelligence trainer. Her books have sold three million copies and have been translated into many different languages. A champion for bucket filling, Carol works with a powerful presenter team who strive to help all ages and occupations grow in kindness, self-control, resilience, and forgiveness, all leading to a happier life. For more information, visit bucketfillers101.com. Penny Weber is a full time illustrator from Long Island, New York. Penny attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City where she studied graphic design and illustration. She works on Photoshop creating digital paintings and has illustrated many picture books for the trade and educational markets. Penny lives with her husband, three children, and their fat cat, Tiger. For more information, visit pennyweberart.com.

Editorial Reviews

". . . illuminating to children trying to figure out their responsibilities to others—and will clarify the thinking of adults as well. An inviting guide for children (and their parents) to cultivating happiness and helping others.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-07-06
An illustrated manual focuses on seizing happiness.

McCloud and illustrator Weber reissue on its 10th anniversary the sequel to their 2006 book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? The work lays out three rules for readers—children as well as adults—to find happiness in their lives. All three revolve around the author’s concept of people having buckets they can either fill for themselves or others. Rule 1: Be a bucket filler. “Every time you say or do something caring or thoughtful, you add good thoughts and feelings to someone’s bucket,” McCloud writes, adding a crucial detail: “This makes your bucket fuller.” Rule 2 stems directly from this: Don’t dip into buckets, your own or others, because “while bucket filling adds good stuff to buckets, bucket dipping takes the good stuff out.” And Rule 3 is a bit counterintuitive: Use the “lid” on your bucket, because “if you haven’t learned how to stop others from dipping into your bucket, how will your bucket ever stay filled?” In all cases, the author elaborates on the rule in question, giving dozens of variations and examples of how it applies in everyday life. Opportunities to fill buckets abound. As McCloud points out, every instance of simple kindness helps to fill buckets. And likewise, dipping into buckets can be common: Are you complaining? Are you selfish? The author’s valuable reminder throughout this section is that engaging in these kinds of dipping behaviors depletes your own bucket—and ultimately diminishes your happiness. The section on the third rule—being aware of the lid on your bucket—is the book’s most intriguing and nuanced part, assuring readers that using their lids isn’t an act of selfishness but quite the opposite. The manual, featuring Weber’s colorful images, will be illuminating to children trying to figure out their responsibilities to others—and will clarify the thinking of adults as well.

An inviting guide for children (and their parents) to cultivating happiness and helping others.

Kirkus Reviews