Share These Acts of Kindness with Your Kids
Have you ever had your child ignore your advice or even eye-roll when you suggest something, but when the exact same idea is suggested by a peer or slightly older child it’s the best thing since sliced bread? The fact is that kids love to learn from other kids!...
Simple Ways to Influence Your Children to Live Mindfully
Header Image Source: Pexels 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...
Caring for the Planet – 5 Tips for Your Family
When I am taking in a beautiful scene in nature – a flower basking in the sun’s rays or a breathtaking mountain view of snow-covered peaks – I am at home. I feel joy and gratitude. I am able to do my best thinking. I have an appreciation for nature and all that it...
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...
6 Mindful Articles to Help Bring Calm to Your Family
6 Mindful Articles to Help Bring Calm to Your Family Here’s what’s going on right now: All three of our kids are doing spring sports, which translates to busy nights and weekends. My husband and I are both working full time. We also have a new puppy that is not...
What does #LiveInsideOut mean?
We are working to build a generation of children and families that strive to “live inside out”. What does that mean? We focus on helping kids develop the character skills (i.e. social and emotional skills) necessary to thrive in their lives, schools, and later in jobs and community, which is the “inside piece”. The “outside” part is being connected to the community through volunteerism. All of our programs combine these two elements!
5 Opportunities to Get Involved
Inside Out Club DuPage offers an after-school program, weekend program, and online (Inside Out Club Live). Additionally, IOCD provides parents and educators with two online resources to help them build character and volunteer from home.
Working with teachers, volunteers, parents, school administrators and outside organizations, the Inside Out Club is positively impacting more than 3,000 children and their families each year.