Empowerment: Activity Center
These family-fun, simple kids games and activities act as powerful steps in the road to "I Can!"
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Starting school again can be stressful on a lot of kids. So grab a picnic blanket, throw it over your dinner table, and delve into your favorite summer memories with this simple activity.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
"Flow" occurs when you are fully immersed in an activity. We can help children experience "Flow" by identifying activities that require them to use their strengths, skills, and talents to the max.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Summer is a great time for a family service project to teach social responsibility. To get started, use the “Be the Change” worksheet to brainstorm and identify an appropriate project.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
We do things to keep learning from fading during the summer, but have you ever thought of doing the opposite - helping your kids keep their “summer learning” from fading during the school year?
Ingredient: Optimism, Goal Setting/Hope, Empowerment
Make the most of summer free time by making a list of things your family wants to do, not has to do.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Help your children focus on the good in the world with this optimistic, family-fun activity.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
To build a strength, you have to practice! Pick a strength with your child, then make a few weekly goals to improve it.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
This is a great way to help your kids recognize their strengths, and help them notice strengths in others, too!
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Empowerment, Goal Setting
Teach your children their strengths so they can overcome challenges, create joyful moments, help others, and reach their goals.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Empowerment
Make a "Love List" with your kids. Decorate it with words, drawings, and photos that represent all the different ways you and your child love each other.
- Pre-K and Younger
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
Ingredient: Empowerment, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience
You can use the Got Grit? Chart to identify a passion, set a goal, and write positive statements that help your child stay focused even when things get hard.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Here are some ideas for creating family rituals and traditions. Include your children in so that everyone enjoys them!
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
An End-of-Year family ritual for your family to reflect and build upon Fishful Thinking skills.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Reflect on accomplishments of the past school year and make goals for the next one with this simple poster activity.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Empowerment, Resilience, Goal Setting
An End-of-Year family ritual for your family to reflect and build upon Fishful Thinking skills.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Resilience
You're likely very attentive when your child comes to you with a problem, but what about when they come to you with good news?
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Emotional Awareness
Build this simple, daily breathing activity into your schedule to feel more relaxed, resilient, and rejuvenated.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
A great, family-fun way to keep your kids busy with things they enjoy that will also enrich their lives.
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Goal-Setting/Hope, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Help your children develop empathy through these simple, family-fun role-playing games.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Goal-Setting, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Giving children knowledge of their strengths is a great way to empower them. Create a Strength Family Tree together.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Encourage your whole family to create and display a list of activities that bring them joy.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Empowerment
You can help your family enjoy the benefits of doing less and slowing down by challenging yourself to take a few "long cuts" each week.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Empowerment
Rather than always focusing on the "ers," like better, stronger, healthier, create a list of items that you and your family already have in abundance.
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Hope, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Help your children to take stock of and clean out the "mental clutter."
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Hope, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Learning how to make good decisions and to problem solve is a way to build mastery skills.
Ingredient: Optimism, Empowerment
Explore with your children what they enjoy about themselves and their body—not simply it's appearance, but what it can do!
Ingredient: Optimism, Empowerment, Resilience, Goal Setting
Any "downtime" you have with the kids can be the perfect time to discuss positive changes with your child.
Ingredient: Empowerment, Goal Setting/Hope
“Time” makes a great gift for any holiday from Birthdays to Christmas.
Ingredient: Empowerment, Goal Setting/Hope
Encourage your children to find a challenge that they would like to take on that will help stretch and strengthen their view of themselves.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Empowerment, Optimism
Leading by example is a great way to help make expressing gratitude a part of your family's daily life.
Ingredient: Empowerment
Simple questions you can ask yourself that will help facilitate your child’s independence and create Mastery Moments.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Empowerment, Resilience
Help your child communicate and work through a grudge with a set of simple circles and a positive attitude.
Ingredient: Empowerment, Resilience, Optimism
Challenge yourself to praise not just the moments your child succeeds, but the steps they took to get there.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Resilience, Empowerment
You can help your child to develop the skill of emotional awareness by showing them that you are interested in how they feel—and by talking about your own feelings as well.
Ingredient: Empowerment
The first, and most important, step in enhancing your family's sense of meaning is to think about experiences in the past that have felt meaningful.
Ingredient: Empowerment
Parents have to make choices for their children, but giving children the opportunity to make their own choices is critical for them to develop confidence and a sense of control.
- Pre-K and Younger
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
Ingredient: Empowerment
Each day, identify two activities such as going to the market or returning books to the library.
- Pre-K and Younger
- Kindergarten - Grade 2