Have You Filled a Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids (Bucketfilling Books) Paperback – Illustrated, October 1, 2015 by Carol McCloud

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Author: McCloud Carol

Brand: Bucket Fillers

Edition: 10th Anniversary

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• TURNAROUND PUBLISHER SERVICES

Format: Illustrated

Package Dimensions: 5x262x159

Number Of Pages: 32

Release Date: 01-10-2015

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“Children are not the only ones that need to learn how to be truly happy.
It’s all in the bucket, that invisible bucket that follows you everywhere. . . teaches young readers valuable lessons about giving, sharing, and caring. This guide to daily happiness, though, is not just for kids. We all need reminders of the benefits of positive thinking and positive behavior. It’s an important lesson to teach and remind us all . . . that showing kindness and appreciation of others goes a long way to making this world a happier place for everyone, including ourselves. A classic tale, beautifully told and beautifully shared.”
-Emily-Jane Hills Orford, Readers’ Favorite Book Reviews

While using a simple metaphor of a bucket and a dipper, author Carol McCloud illustrates that when we choose to be kind, we not only fill the buckets of those around us, but also fill our OWN bucket!

Conversely, when we choose to say or do mean things, we are dipping into buckets.
All day long, we are either filling up or dipping into each other’s buckets by what we say and what we do.
When you’re a bucket filler, you make the world a better place to be! This 32-page picture book is perfect for children, parents, grandparents,
teachers and people that want to teach empathy, nurture kindness and create a positive environment in their home, classroom, workplace and community.

Bucket Fillers is committed to giving 50% of all proceeds to non-profits that serve children and families. For more information on bucket filling or free downloadables and resources, please visit bucketfillers101.com.

Publications by Bucket Fillers:

Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
Fill a Bucket
Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness
My Bucketfilling Journal
Will You Fill My Bucket?
Bucket Filling from A to Z
Bucket Filling from A to Z Poster Set
My Very Own Bucket Filling from A to Z Coloring Book
BABY’S BUCKET Book
Halle and Tiger with their Bucketfilling Family
Buckets, Dippers, and Lids
BestBucket Filler Ever!

From the Author
This book was first published in 2006 to teach young children, primarily ages 4-9, how to be bucket fillers. Since then, bucket filling has spread around the world to help millions of people of all ages have happier and more rewarding lives. In this revised and updated edition, the verbs “bucket dipping” and “bullying” have replaced the nouns “bucket dipper” and “bully” to help readers understand that “bucket dipping” and “bullying” are negative behaviors (what we are doing) and not permanent labels (who we are). Readers will also learn that you can fill or dip into your own bucket.

I first learned about bucket filling in a seminar for early childhood educators in the 1990s. The speaker, a brain research expert,said it is helpful to think of every person as being born with an invisible bucket. The bucket represents a person’s mental and emotional health. You can’t see the bucket, but it’s there. She said that it is primarily the responsibility of parents and other caregivers to fill a child’s bucket. When you hold, caress, nurture, touch, sing, play, and provide loving attention, safety, and care, you fill a child’s bucket. Giving that love is filling buckets.

In addition to being loved, children must also be taught how to love others. Children who learn how to express kindness and love lead happier lives. When you care about others and show that love by what you say and do, you feel good and you fill your own bucket, too.
As you read this book with children, use it as an opportunity to model this concept by filling their buckets. Tell them why they are special to you. Help them imagine whose bucket they might fill and what they could say or do to fill a bucket. Tell them whose bucket you filled that day. Practice with them to become daily bucket fillers. Very quickly they will experience the pride and joy of filling buckets.
Learn more about bucket filling through our website, bucketfillers101.com,