Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness: Three Rules for a Happier Life

by Carol McCloud, Penny Weber (Illustrator)

Overview

"When I got this awesome new addition to my bucket books... I showed it to my 3-5th graders... they were eagerly wanting me to read it and wanted to know when it would also be available in our school library. It's a chapter book and well... it's PERFECT. The kids are learning all kinds of new things about bucket filling." —Roxanne Davison, Books That Heal Kids

If you're new to the concepts of bucket filling and bucket dipping, then this award-winning book is for you! This sequel to Have You Filled A Bucket Today? features easy-to-read chapters, colorful illustrations, and daily questions to help readers become better bucket fillers that are more self-aware. Readers will learn the three main rules of bucket filling and will gain a better understanding of why and how "dipping" behaviors occur...and how to handle themselves when feeling dipped. This 88-page chapter book is perfect for children, parents, grandparents, teachers and people that want to teach empathy, nurture kindness and create a positive environment in their home, classroom, workplace and community.

Winner of 18 awards. For more information on bucket filling or free downloadables and resources, please visit bucketfillers101.com.

Publications by Bucket Fillers:
• Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
• Fill a Bucket
• Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness
• My Bucketfilling Journal
• Will You Fill My Bucket?
• Bucket Filling from A to Z
• Bucket Filling from A to Z Poster Set
• My Very Own Bucket Filling from A to Z Coloring Book
• BABY'S BUCKET Book
• Halle and Tiger with their Bucketfilling Family
• Buckets, Dippers, and Lids

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933916576
Publisher:	Bucket Fillers
Publication date:	11/01/2010
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Carol McCloud, the "Bucket Lady," is the author of ten books, which began with the ever-popular Have You Filled a Bucket Today?A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids in 2006. By trade, Carol is a speaker, author, and certified emotional intelligence trainer. Her books have sold nearly three million copies in English and have been translated into many different languages. A champion for bucket filling, Carol works with a powerful team who strive to help all ages grow in kindness, self-control, resilience, and forgiveness, all leading to a happier life. For more information, visit bucketfillers101.com.

Editorial Reviews

". . . illuminating to children trying to figure out their responsibilities to others—and will clarify the thinking of adults as well. An inviting guide for children (and their parents) to cultivating happiness and helping others.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-07-06
An illustrated manual focuses on seizing happiness.

McCloud and illustrator Weber reissue on its 10th anniversary the sequel to their 2006 book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? The work lays out three rules for readers—children as well as adults—to find happiness in their lives. All three revolve around the author’s concept of people having buckets they can either fill for themselves or others. Rule 1: Be a bucket filler. “Every time you say or do something caring or thoughtful, you add good thoughts and feelings to someone’s bucket,” McCloud writes, adding a crucial detail: “This makes your bucket fuller.” Rule 2 stems directly from this: Don’t dip into buckets, your own or others, because “while bucket filling adds good stuff to buckets, bucket dipping takes the good stuff out.” And Rule 3 is a bit counterintuitive: Use the “lid” on your bucket, because “if you haven’t learned how to stop others from dipping into your bucket, how will your bucket ever stay filled?” In all cases, the author elaborates on the rule in question, giving dozens of variations and examples of how it applies in everyday life. Opportunities to fill buckets abound. As McCloud points out, every instance of simple kindness helps to fill buckets. And likewise, dipping into buckets can be common: Are you complaining? Are you selfish? The author’s valuable reminder throughout this section is that engaging in these kinds of dipping behaviors depletes your own bucket—and ultimately diminishes your happiness. The section on the third rule—being aware of the lid on your bucket—is the book’s most intriguing and nuanced part, assuring readers that using their lids isn’t an act of selfishness but quite the opposite. The manual, featuring Weber’s colorful images, will be illuminating to children trying to figure out their responsibilities to others—and will clarify the thinking of adults as well.

An inviting guide for children (and their parents) to cultivating happiness and helping others.

Kirkus Reviews