3.  Negative world – Movies, Video Games, Television Shows, etc.  Bullying  Comprehension  Brings out the positive in every child  Positive Atmosphere

4.  Early Childhood Character Development Program -1960 by Dr. Donald O. Clifton  Kindness and Respect – Taught, Practiced, & Valued  Encourage the positives and try to relinquish the negatives  Imaginary “buckets” – represent mental and emotional self

5.  Actions or words  Saying or doing something kind  A smile  Helping without being asked  Showing respect to others  Anything positive

6.  Making someone feel negative about themselves  Taking joy and happiness from someone else to try to fill your bucket  Actually your dipping from your bucket, too.

7.  Making fun of someone  Doing unkind things  Refusing to help  Disrespectful  Showing disrespect  Bullying

8. How it helps:  With Discipline  Helps children understand each other’s feelings  Makes them aware of their actions  Makes a positive environment Materials:  Books for children to read about bucket filling  Board with ways to be bucket fillers  Use Plastic cups to represent child’s bucket and let children fill them with pom-poms or notes when they do something positive

9. As a teacher, I noticed that a girl in my class, Rachel, does not play with children on the playground, nobody ever asks her to play. One day I had duty and noticed another girl in my class, Sarah, inviting Rachel to play with her. After recess I let Sarah know that she was being a bucket filler and made Rachel feel special and loved. I let Sarah put pom-poms in Rachel’s plastic cup when we get back into the room to represent bucket filling.

10. At school one day I noticed that a couple of children were picking on Adam because he got glasses. I explain to the class that they are dipping from Adam’s bucket. I tell them we need to be bucket fillers and not bucket dippers. We talk about ways we can be bucket fillers.

11.  Send out a newsletter  Have a bucket filling conference at school  Keep up with the bucket filling every week  Make the newsletter informational about bucket filling (Websites)  Make the conference fun, yet informational  Send a letter home at the end of the week telling parents what they did to fill buckets

12.  Implement it into your own lives. You will notice a big difference on what you say!  Think before you speak!