How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer
Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud- for younger children
Growing Up With a Bucket Full of Happiness by Carol McCloud- for older children
My Bucket Filling Journal 30 Days to a Happier Life by Carol McCloud- journal pages and ideas
How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Donald Clifton- for adults
These books introduce the idea of our invisible buckets. Our buckets help us tell how we feel. When our buckets are full, we feel great and when our buckets are low or empty we feel terrible. We can help fill other people's buckets with kind words and actions. We can also dip in people's buckets with unkind words and actions. Everyone has a bucket, even adults, sisters and brothers. We can also fill and dip into our own buckets.
The concept of the bucket helps children understand their own feelings as well as other people's feelings. It provides a
language for them to use to express themselves. It also helps them understand how our words and actions
affect others and how other people's words and actions affect them. _Students have the opportunity to help fill buckets in their classrooms. You can try it at home too.
Bucket Filling Bucket Dipping
* We feel great when our buckets are full. * We feel terrible when our buckets are low or empty.
* How can we tell when someone's bucket is full? *How can we tell when someone's bucket is empty?
*We fill our own bucket each time we fill another person's bucket. * Dipping in someone's bucket does not fill our own bucket.
*It is easier to fill another bucket when our own bucket is full. *When someone dips in our bucket, their bucket is low.
* Examples of bucket filling include compliments, sharing, playing together, *Examples of dipping include, hitting or any other physical injury,
helping, encouragement (you can do it!), ask about each other verbal put-downs, name calling, bossiness, gossip, not including
smiling and saying hello. others, ignoring in a disrespectful way, using an unkind tone of voice.
In the book, Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness, Carol McCloud talks about the idea of using our lids. Unfortunately,
dipping happens every day, to everyone. People dip in our buckets and we dip in other people's buckets. We need to use our
lids, so we can cope when people dip.
Lids for Our Buckets
* Our lids determine how much we will allow someone to take out of our buckets.
* The DeBug System is one way to use our lid.
* Positive self-talk is another way to use our lid.
* Understanding that things will not always go our way is another way to use our lid.
* Using "I" statements to communicate how we feel and what we want.
Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud- for younger children
Growing Up With a Bucket Full of Happiness by Carol McCloud- for older children
My Bucket Filling Journal 30 Days to a Happier Life by Carol McCloud- journal pages and ideas
How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Donald Clifton- for adults
These books introduce the idea of our invisible buckets. Our buckets help us tell how we feel. When our buckets are full, we feel great and when our buckets are low or empty we feel terrible. We can help fill other people's buckets with kind words and actions. We can also dip in people's buckets with unkind words and actions. Everyone has a bucket, even adults, sisters and brothers. We can also fill and dip into our own buckets.
The concept of the bucket helps children understand their own feelings as well as other people's feelings. It provides a
language for them to use to express themselves. It also helps them understand how our words and actions
affect others and how other people's words and actions affect them. _Students have the opportunity to help fill buckets in their classrooms. You can try it at home too.
Bucket Filling Bucket Dipping
* We feel great when our buckets are full. * We feel terrible when our buckets are low or empty.
* How can we tell when someone's bucket is full? *How can we tell when someone's bucket is empty?
*We fill our own bucket each time we fill another person's bucket. * Dipping in someone's bucket does not fill our own bucket.
*It is easier to fill another bucket when our own bucket is full. *When someone dips in our bucket, their bucket is low.
* Examples of bucket filling include compliments, sharing, playing together, *Examples of dipping include, hitting or any other physical injury,
helping, encouragement (you can do it!), ask about each other verbal put-downs, name calling, bossiness, gossip, not including
smiling and saying hello. others, ignoring in a disrespectful way, using an unkind tone of voice.
In the book, Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness, Carol McCloud talks about the idea of using our lids. Unfortunately,
dipping happens every day, to everyone. People dip in our buckets and we dip in other people's buckets. We need to use our
lids, so we can cope when people dip.
Lids for Our Buckets
* Our lids determine how much we will allow someone to take out of our buckets.
* The DeBug System is one way to use our lid.
* Positive self-talk is another way to use our lid.
* Understanding that things will not always go our way is another way to use our lid.
* Using "I" statements to communicate how we feel and what we want.