Fill a Bucket: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Young Children

While using a simple metaphor of a bucket for happiness, authors Carol McCloud and Katherine Martin, M.A. show young children how our positive behavior and interactions increase happiness. This sweet book shows how we can fill each other’s buckets by being kind, loving, and caring. It also teaches the importance of filling other people’s buckets as well as our own. Fill a Bucket is perfect for children, parents, grandparents, teachers and people who want to teach empathy, nurture kindness, and create a positive environment in their home, classroom, and community.

Carol McCloud has authored or coauthored seven additional books on "bucket filling." Carol is a certified Emotional Intelligence Trainer and a long-time member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Katherine Martin is a senior staff counselor with Samaritan Counseling Center of Southeastern Michigan. She has an M.A. in Counseling and a Specialization in Child and Adolescence.