Students have been learning about – and working on – their personal relationships with their fellow classmates. This is a great book which speaks about the invisible ‘buckets’ that we each carry around every day. When people are kind to us (through their actions or their words) then our buckets become more full and we feel better about ourselves. Through being kind to others we also fill our own buckets. When people mistreat others (through their actions or their words) they ‘dip’ into our buckets and take away our good thoughts and feelings. We cannot fill our buckets by being mean to others. In fact, oftentimes, people who have empty buckets end up mistreating others because they don’t feel good themselves.
We also read a second book on the same subject.
I hope you take the opportunity to talk to your child about these two books.