Kindness Changes Everything: The Bounce Back Series 1 in Bloomington, MN

Kindness Changes Everything addresses the serious issue of schoolyard bullying from the perspective of both the victim and the perpetrator.
It seeks to empower children and equip them with the skills they need to overcome adversity and be resilient when facing such challenges.
This gives them one of the most valuable rewards of all: a healthy respect for themselves and others and the opportunity to create a school life they can love.
The book features:
A beautifully illustrated story you can read and discuss together.
Strategies to help children deal with bullying, teasing, and exclusion.
Suggestions for parents.
A resources section, with activities and exercises, children can use to build their compassion, confidence, assertiveness and resilience.
Games designed to develop skills that effectively address bullying, teasing and exclusion.
Kindness Changes Everything is the first book in The Bounce Back Series. This series was created to empower children and provide them with the strategies they need to overcome adversity and be resilient when facing life's challenges.
It encourages children to cultivate a sense of kindness and forgiveness towards themselves and others, and to view mistakes simply as opportunities for learning. In order to achieve these goals, we need self-respect and respect for others. We also need to understand the emotions that drive our lives. Then we can learn to work with these powerful forces rather than hide from them, pretend they don't exist, or be their passive recipients.
By encouraging children to understand their emotions and take responsibility for themselves and their choices, they will eventually become the drivers of their own destinies and enjoy an increased sense of confidence, freedom, and empowerment. This gives them the most valuable reward of all: the opportunity to create a life they can love.
Other books in the series include:
Messy is the second book in The Bounce Back Series. It encourages children to develop a healthy respect for themselves, each other and the Earth that underpins all life.
School Rush is the third book in The Bounce Back Series. It is designed to help children begin working with their emotions in a positive and healthy way. Instead of school mornings being filled with chaos, frustration and tension, they can be transformed into a time of warmth, fun and laughter, as family members help each other to leave the house on time.
Kind Words is the fourth book in The Bounce Back Series. It is designed to help children address everyday school yard difficulties by equipping them with sound conflict resolution skills.
Making Friends is the fifth book in The Bounce Back Series. It equips children with strategies they can use, should they find themselves alone in the schoolyard at play.
Quietly Confident is the sixth book in The Bounce Back Series. It addresses the emotion of fear which unconsciously underpins many of our choices in life. By encouraging children to understand and face this emotion directly, they can enjoy an increased sense of confidence, freedom, and empowerment.
Facing Fear is the seventh book in The Bounce Back Series. It follows on from Quietly Confident and continues to address the emotion of fear. It explains that anger is often used to mask other emotions that are more difficult for us to feel, such as fear, shame or guilt. When children learn to accept and understand the underlying causes of anger, it has no need to arise.
A Questing Game engages children's imaginations as they embark on an adventure that can only begin when they are tucked up in bed at night.
Your children may also enjoy Ever Felt Different?, a book for anyone who has ever felt different.