Kids Empowered to Help the Hungry
Inside Out Club DuPage is on a mission to develop kids with character inside and out; children living by values founded in acceptance, curiosity, collaboration, empathy, gratitude, kindness, perseverance and self-awareness who have a desire to help others, the...
At what age can my kids start volunteering?
As our annual Inside Out Club Fall Family 5K is approaching, I’ve been thinking a lot about family-friendly volunteering. Running or walking for a great cause is a simple, meaningful way to involve your kids in giving back – especially your youngest - but the...
Understand & Use SEL: 5 Tips for Parents
With these tips in mind, you are now in a great position to facilitate your child’s SEL.
Share These Acts of Kindness with Your Kids
The fact is that kids love to learn from other kids! Take a moment to share these acts of kindness by kids with your kiddos and empower them to be kind.
Grateful Kids Show Love to Soldiers and Learn Self-Awareness
This winter, over 650 elementary-age kids in the Inside Out Club (IOC) school program at eighteen schools took part in our Supporting Our Troops lesson. This lesson taught the kids self-awareness and gratitude through a two main activities – 1. IOC volunteers...
Simple Ways to Influence Your Children to Live Mindfully
Kids are always go, go, go: moving from one activity to another, flicking from one screen to the next. Children don’t yet have the self-awareness to reflect on life as they live it. It’s up to us adults who have discovered the value of mindfulness to influence the next generation to live mindfully.Give the following strategies a go, and your kids will be the most mindful wee ones on the block before you can say “om”
669 Kids Learn Empathy by Helping the Homeless
Have you ever taken the time to think about how it would feel and look like to be homeless? And then volunteered to help kids and families who are homeless? This is what 669 students in the Inside Out Club did this October. As part of our “Homelessness in Our...
Caring for the Planet – 5 Tips for Your Family
Every child and family can help protect the planet by following these easy tips. Have something you’re doing not on our list? Share it in the comments and help others get involved in caring for the earth.
Place of My Mind #1: My Tipping Point
Have you ever had one of those days where you hit your emotional tipping point – cannot hold back the tears, every thought is pulling you down, you just want to crawl back to bed? With back to school season upon us, we thought we’d share one Mom’s story of hitting her tipping point and what she learned from it.
6 Mindful Articles to Help Bring Calm to Your Family
During hectic and stressful times, do you ever wish you had some simple tools to bring calm to your family?
Our mission is to develop kids with character inside and out.
We provide four Inside Out Club opportunities to help kids and families develop the character skills necessary to thrive in their lives, schools, and later in jobs and community.