Fishful Thinking Part 2

Last week, I posted about a great site I stumbled upon: Fishful Thinking. Its premise is to give parents the tools needed to teach our kids about optimism, dealing with challenges, spreading peace, positive thinking, etc. In short, teaching kids how to be successful throughout life.

Each week, Fishful Thinking offers a different activity to help promote those values. This past week was "Grateful Sayings". Per their instructions, I created a poster for all of us to write down what we were thankful for. I titled it "Grateful for God's Gifts".

After I created the poster, I introduced it at dinner. It was all I could do to keep the girls in their seats till everyone was finished. They were just so excited!

We spent the rest of the meal discussing the many things we're grateful for. By the time the girls were excused, they each had a lengthy list to write on the board.


Each day since then, I've caught both the girls and Scott writing down their thoughts, doodling little pictures and further decorating the board. At this point, there's little room remaining!

Here's what's on it so far... (I thought I'd share them since some of them are so amusing!)

smiles
church
Girl Scouts
All the wonderful things our parents do for us
doctors
popcorn
Fairy Amy
food/water
old people/young people
movies
new skillets
pets
Jane Austen
books
volunteering
family
flowers
cupcakes
cheese
Girl Scout cookies
holding hands
our family's names
Brownies
hot showers
holidays
sweet and sour adventures
my 3 girls
violin, piano, trumpet music
great sky at night
made up songs sung lately
men's group at church
daytime IM's
chocolate
fire
beautiful hand drawn pictures to hang on my office wall
pets
friends

I have to say, though, that the highlight of the project thus far was when Hayley's Girl Scout troop came over. She immediately dragged them over to the poster and told them all about it! Gotta love that enthusiasm!

You've also gotta go check out this site. It really is phenomenal!

http://fishfulthinking.repnation.com/Log.ashx?a=2&i=76&r=142548aa-582d-4d58-8aea-57287eb56f44