Carol McCloudHave You Filled a Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids (Bucketfilling Books)

I read this book in my classroom a couple times a week paired with having an actual wall of buckets that the children can put pom poms in the buckets or take pom poms out depending on actions they have made towards their friends this book is very helpful to explain the rules and expectations of our bucket system

Great book for teaching young kids about being kind. This should be a book in every child's library and every teacher's classroom-kids love it! Plus, it teaches a great lesson that kids follow-through with!

Cute book nice principles

This is a lovely book, but come on Amazon! It was delivered to me crumpled.

A cute addition for any five year old library. Very well thawed out book for the topic. I definitely recommend this book.

I start every school year with the Fill a Bucket books. The concept forms a structure for classroom management. Students earn bucket filler slips. These are counted at the end of each week and tallied on a paper bucket (I found these materials on Teachers Pay Teachers). When there are 100 tallies, students earn a pre-determined classroom award. They love it, and parents love reading the slips when students take them home at the end of the week.

The book's story is preachy, but I will read it to some of my elementary school students. It is meant for young children, but the story will still need to be explained to them.

Wonderful book, good for a wide range of ages. Kids, especially toddlers, have a tendency to be a bit self centered - me, me, me! I bought this book to read with my three year old and my husband, who is a third grade teacher, says he had planned to buy it for his students. Using the bucket analogy, this is a clever way to explain to children how important it is to be kind to others, giving simple examples along the way. My three year old can be not so kind to her little sister. Lately, she has been catching herself and saying things to the effect of "Oh I don't want to dip into her bucket, I want to fill her bucket" and then will give her a toy or something. Or at least will stop pushing her around! The book is definitely repetitive which is slightly annoying but very typical for kids books. This isn't a typical read and put aside type of book. It really is a spring board for conversation, as I think another review described it as. It's also a book that my three year old WANTS to read and often.As to the criticism that it does not discuss filling our own buckets... well, I think MOST kids already do that. Certainly toddlers do that all day long. So I think perhaps its not good for the overly people pleasing 8 year olds of the world but for any child who needs some gentle encouragement to think of others, this works!One last note - my grandmother used to always compliment / talk to strangers, especially if they were alone. Just something simple and sincere. And she would say "you never know if perhaps no one else talked to them all day" And she's right! Our world could use a lot more kindness and I think this is a good start.