Kindness is contagious. 
Really, it is.
And any time we (and I’m talking you, me–anyone!) can teach our kids to be kind–just for the sake of being kind–is a win in my book.
Being nice lifts spirits. It lightens moods. It feels good.
The earlier we can teach our kids about kindness, the better.
PBS Kids’ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood is celebrating Labor Day as Neighbor Day this year, and I love it. Neighbor Day is a day to encourage acts of kindness towards neighbors. The goal? Show kids that one act of kindness leads to many and that kindness feels good.
It’s a super-important message, and I love it.
And thanks to our friends at PBS Kids, one lucky teachmama reader will receive a rockstar Daniel Tiger gift pack full of super-fun Daniel Tiger goodies just for sharing what his or her family has done to celebrate Neighbor Day. And let’s face it: if you can’t celebrate Neighbor Day on the actual Neighbor Day (Labor Day) no biggie!
In my book, any day is Neighbor Day!
Here’s the skinny. . .
- Teaching Kindness– Labor Day is Neighbor Day!
We’ve tried to do what we can to teach kindness in our house by:
But there’s always more we can do.
Which is why I love the idea of Neighbor Day thanks to Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
- Neighbor Day: On Monday, September 2, Daniel Tiger’s Neighbor Day premiers on PBS Kids. Daniel learns what it is like to do something kind and neighborly and that one act of kindness can lead to many. YAY! What a happy message!
Check out the PBS Kids site for more activities and ideas: PBS Kids Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. And if your kids are too big for Daniel Tiger? It doesn’t matter. Just encourage them to do something extra, special and kind on Neighbor Day. You don’t even have to tell them it’s Neighbor Day. Just tell them you’re spreading kindness. It’s contagious.
Want to get in on the Neighbor Day fun like Daniel Tiger? Sure you do!
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fyi: This is an unsponsored post, sharing a message I feel strongly about from a company I can firmly stand behind. I am a PBS Kids VIP, and I did receive a Daniel Tiger plush toy in exchange for sharing this message.
As always, my opinions are all my own, influenced only by my experience as a parent and educator–and, of course, my three little loves.
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We love taking baked goods to the neighbors’ houses and did this just a couple of weeks back!
We just baked cookies for a neighbor who had a new baby 🙂
We just discovered Daniel Tiger and already our 2 year old is asking for him when she wakes up in the morning! So fun – I love the idea of neighbor day – we will have to figure out what we want to do for it!
We are going to work on asking them to join us in the field for soccer and bubble fun after school.
I don’t really know my neighbors because we are new to the neighborhood. Maybe I will have a bbq.
We had a our neighbors over for a barbaque.
I like your idea of leaving small notes in mailboxes. Thanks!
We invite some of our neighbors over for a night of cooking on the grill.
Great ideas! We made frozen cookie dough to hand out and paper flowers to hand out to our homebound neighbors!
I think we’ll get the neighbor kids to come play in our backyard.
today we brought flowers to our neighbor in the hospital
Our family likes to help our elderly neighbor keep up with her yardwork.
By helping my neighbor with her small garden
Our neighbors are our dear friends. All of the neighbor hood is friends. We take care of each others kids, have bbq’s, and do holiday gifts.
We don’t live in a very “neighborly” neighborhood, but maybe we should change that. Bryson does love to “hep” one neighbor with his dogs.
We help our neighbor with their cleaning and feeding the cat.
By checking on them during bad weather, or just stopping and chatting with an elderly neighbor.
Helping out a neighbor with her lawn.
This idea is wonderful and so much needed. I often remember when I was a kid there was so much more neighbor to neighbor contact. Now a days it seems every one pulls up in their driveway hits the button for the roll up garage door and hits the button again once they drive in. Appears no one uses their front door anymore and that’s a shame because that’s when you had a chance to see your neighbor’s outside. They way I celebrate neighbor day is by spoiling all the kids on my street with fun games and baking. The kids come over and we bake play games and take goodies to the 3 window ladies on our street. This year we are doing extra we are decorating the 3 windows homes on the outside for Christmas. The older ladies spoke last year of how much they miss their X-mas lights. Even If I don’t win I just want to say love your idea lets pray it spreads acts of kindness all over.
We always have a block party in our neighborhood in October. Everyone brings a dish, we grill, have games for the kids and other games such as cake walks.
It has been a tradition for the last twelve years and we love it.
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We helped our elderly neighbors with yard work! We do this every other weekend!
We like to bake them cookies and leave them on their doorsteps with little notes. 🙂
This is such a nice idea. We haven’t lived hear very long, so we don’t really know our neighbors, but maybe we’ll introduce ourselves and make some new friends!
We had a our neighbors over for dinner 🙂
We washed the windows of our neighbor!
We helped our neighbors with moving.
We just washed the windows for our neighbor!
I think I will bake cookies for the neighbors.
My husband is a police officer. He came home and told me about an old man who just called 911 to “talk” my kids and I anonymously left a dozen cookies at his door.
We’ll see if they’d like to get together at the park!
I might take them cookies!
We try to help out our older neighbors in anyway we can and are there if any of our younger neighbors need us as last minute babysitters.
We have several elderly neighbors and we always have a big barbecue and since they are on a limited income we supply everything needed including the food.
I’m going to give zucchini bread to my neighbors.
I didn’t even know Neighbor Day excited! But now that I know, I will plan something with my kids!
We have a “lawn day” where four of my neighbors and us get the lawnmowers, trimmers, hedgers, etc. out, and we take care of three of our elderly neighbors lawns each month, thanks!
We had a neighborhood bbq. All of our neighbors brought a dish to pass and the kids played in our yard. It was a lot of fun!
Mowing their lawn
We go for walks and stop and talk or walk with our neighbors
I am an avid baker and I bake cupcakes all the time for neighbors.
We would pack a picnic lunch and go to the neighborhood park and have lunch and watch the kids play.
help the neighbors mow their yard
We will bake cookies and take them to our closest neighbors.
We shovel snow for the elderly neighbors
My only neighbor is my mom and grandmother.We helped them weed out their rose beds and clean up the property.
We’d have the kids on our street over for a cookie and lemonade tea party!
we will celebrate with a neighborhood bbq
We help watch neighbors children so they can have a night out!
We planted something my the mailbox at the neighbors across the street.
My fiance helped our neighbor mow their lawn and while they were out of town we took their trash out too.
I just watched my neighbors 3 cats when he had to go out of town and I helped my other neighbor fine her lost dog.
I always pull up my neighbor’s garbage cans.
We celebrated it by delivering treats
I love to bake and give my neighbors some of what I’ve baked. Cookies are the favorites.
We bake for ours several times a year.
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We love inviting the neighbors over for dinner!
I like sending them random gifts.