The story behind our new Social Emotional app for kids It’s 11:11 make a wish… BloomiVerse across the Universe.  It was about two years ago that this popped into my head as I glanced at the time, 11:11. I didn’t exactly know what that meant at the time, but I knew the feeling behind it. Spread as much love, kindness, and acceptance as far as humanly possible. Allow a child thousands of miles away to feel that they belong and are loved, just as they are. But how? How could I p

I think it’s safe to assume kindness and empathy are values we all want to embody and instill in our children. At Bloom, this is certainly something we strongly value in our classrooms and in our work with clients and families. But how do we really teach kids what kindness is and how to do it? How do we teach empathy?  If you look up the definition of empathy in the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, you’ll get something like this “ the action of understanding, being aware of

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