Poetry is uniquely suited to bring us together and ease our anxiety in troubled times. Let’s put our words to work for the comfort of others.
Doing Good Together's “Care for Others” Package
In this unique time of social distancing and simplified schedules, Doing Good Together is here as always to support you and your family. We’ve compiled a list of our favorite projects for kitchen table kindness. These simple activities will empower your family to support one another and our local communities during this strange time. Plus, each of these projects engages kids in hands-on learning.
Raising Engaged Humans: A Book List for Big-Hearted Parents
At DGT we know that books give us the gift of perspective, a sense that we are not alone on this journey to raise empowered, engaged kids. The books we’ve gathered here offer
inspiration to try something new when the status quo isn’t working,
encouragement and hope at the end of a hard day, and
practical, doable ideas to help you raise kind, community-minded kids.
Resolved: How DGT Can Help You Live Toward Your Big-Hearted Goals
This post is for you, the big-hearted parent who has set the earnest but seemingly sprawling intention to live more compassionately in the coming year. Doing Good Together’s Big-Hearted Families Program was created specifically to help parents seeking the tools, inspiration, and expertise to practice compassion and engagement as a regular part of your busy lives. Here we’ve gathered our favorite resources to get you started.
Active Gratitude: Family Traditions for Kinder, Less Entitled, Happier Kids
Ready Set Give: 6 Simple Projects for Big-Hearted Beginners
We’ll make it easy for you to get started! Doing Good Together has distilled six of our best projects for beginners into a new printable. Parents tell us they love how straightforward it is to start with these doable (and fun) activities. The projects below lay the groundwork for you to make a difference in a million different ways as your family grows accustomed to making time to do good.
8 Big-Hearted Remedies to Care for Your Family’s Emotional Colds
Just like the rest of our body, our mental health occasionally struggles with a bout of the grumps or bit of the blues. These emotionally low moments - featuring worry, self-doubt, fear, frustration, anger, and sadness - are a developmentally normal response to the rough patches of childhood and the stresses of the big changes our children experience throughout their growing up years. It’s our job to help our children learn to understand, cope with, and overcome their emotional upheaval. DGT is offering a few creative strategies to help you start a stockpile for your next run-in with the emotional sniffles.
We've Got Your Back: Digital Parenting Tools for Stronger Real-World Connections
The Inner Work of Childhood: How (and Why) To Become a Family of Philosophers
There is a certain amount of “Who am I?” and “Why are we here?” work that needs to happen during our early years. At Doing Good Together, we have found that a great deal of the inner work happens when kids have the opportunity to ask big questions with adults in their lives. Our latest post gives you the scientific benefits of philosophical inquiry and offers practical tools to get you started.
Inspiring Addresses to Share Comfort and Big-Hearted Art through the Mail
6 Ways to Work for a More Compassionate Community
In his rendition of Stone Soup, Jon J Muth offers a lovely example of the way individual generosity can lead to a more compassionate community. Building on this inspiration, Doing Good Together offers several practical suggestions to help your family enrich your community in simple, everyday ways.
Want to raise empowered kids? Teach advocacy!
9 Small, Science-Based Family-Life Upgrades that Prepare Kids to Live Kind
Giving your family routine a few big-hearted upgrades can make it easier to raise thoughtful, kind kids willing to reach out to that new student sitting alone at lunch or brave enough to stand with the student getting taunted by a bully. Ultimately these kind routines will help children become adults who strive to make a difference in the world.