{"id":16830,"date":"2012-06-30T00:06:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T07:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2012-06-30T00:06:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T07:06:39","slug":"bucket-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/16830","title":{"rendered":"Bucket Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIf you stop to let me and my girls cross the street, you might notice my two girls waving madly at you. They\u2019ve taken to waving and smiling at just about everyone. Why do they wave at the man on the street corner (dressed up like a chicken) who&#8217;s\u00a0trying to convince you to come into his restaurant\u00a0for chicken wings? And why is my 5-year-old suddenly making her bed without being asked?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reason? The children\u2019s book, <em>Have you Filled a Bucket Today?<\/em> \u00a0by Carol McCloud.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"bucket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bucket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"98\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we were out and about recently with Nanny Jane, we popped into our local fave book store, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bookpeopleofmoscow\">Book People of Moscow<\/a>, and the book nearly fell off the shelves and into our hands.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s concept is that if you are nice and do something thoughtful, you\u2019ll fill someone\u2019s invisible bucket, thus making them happier, more content, more complete. Simple concept, right? My daughters completely, and unabashedly, ran with it.<\/p>\n<p>I love the simple reminder to spend some time each day being thoughtful of what others need. Hmmm, this book could be required reading for adults as well.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you stop to let me and my girls cross the street, you might notice my two girls waving madly at you. They\u2019ve taken to waving and smiling at just about everyone. Why do they wave at the man on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/16830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/16830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108,109,335],"class_list":["post-16830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallant_manners","tag-book-people-of-moscow","tag-books","tag-gallant-manners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}