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How to be a Good Person 101: Are you a Bucket Filler?

Students at Indian Hill get a life lesson in how to be a good person. Have you filled a bucket today?

The students at Indian Hill School learned an important lesson in being kind to other people. It’s based on the book “Have you Filled a Bucket Today?” by Carol McCloud. When you are nice, friendly and helpful to someone else, you are a  bucket filler.  f you are mean, say an unkind word or hurt someone, you are being bucket dipper.

Indian Hill has a mural in the hallway created by all of the students, expressing themselves as Bucket Fillers. They pass by it several times a day and it reminds them to be a bucket filler.

It’s great that the Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District consistently has some of the best test scores in the state and has great art and music programs - but teaching a child to be a good person is an invaluable life lesson that will stay with our kids for the rest of their lives.

Mark Maley (Editor) February 8, 2012 at 06:26 pm
Thanks for writing about this project, Jean.
This is a great lesson for the kids...In fact, they could teach adults a few things as well.
Jean Bernstein February 10, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Thanks Mark. It really is a such a simple and universal message. And really I want my child to be a good person. Even more than I want him to be smart and successful, I want him to be a good person.

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Hey there - thanks for posting! Hopefully we can find you a game! :)