February is filled with pink and red, Valentine’s Day crafts and cards, sharing meaningful moments with the ones we love, buying flowers and eating chocolate and expressing our love for others. In all this, we often forget that we also need and deserve love. And not from others, although that feels good, but from ourselves. So this February we wanted to share our favorite songs for kids to help encourage them, build them up, and help them love themselves. One of those songs

Everybody makes mistakes… and everybody has those days! Sound familiar? Well, it’s true! The New Year is the perfect time to talk to our kids about the beauty of starting over and trying again. Let’s face it, none of us are perfect. We all need a second chance to make a better choice, and kids need that too! At Bloom, we have a mantra from our Social Emotional curriculum that goes like this: Put your feet on the ground Take a deep breath Think about it And restart! He

A Journey of Love and Kindness It’s 11:11—make a wish… BloomiVerse across the Universe. Two years ago, I glanced at the clock and saw that magical time, 11:11. I didn’t fully understand its significance then, but I felt a powerful urge to spread love, kindness, and acceptance. I wanted children, even those thousands of miles away, to feel they belong and are cherished just as they are. But how could I achieve this? With technology taking over our children's lives and new pare

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