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 This Fishful Thinking Mood Music Activity ROCKS! What a perfect day for a new activity. It is snowing outside and the children have been inside claiming to be fighting off boredom. I announced that we were going to be FISHFUL THINKING and enthusiasm TKO'd our "boring day". I made a sign for our activity...   My stellar sign! Then we talked about music. WE love music at our house ! I used the radio and CD Player to play several songs and we talked about how they made us feel... 1.) Polly Put the Kettle On--made them feel like they should do something. 2.) Johnny Android, "Ball Jar", made them feel happy and miss their brother. 3.) Michael Buble, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" made them feel happy and like they wanted to get up and dance. 4.) Bon Jovi , "Wanted Dead or Alive" brought sadness. 5.) Elvis Presley, "Jailhouse Rock" made them feel "energy" 6.) George Winston's Thunderstorm brought yawns of tiredness. I ...

 As you all know, I'm an Ambassador through RepNation for the Fishful Thinking Program. One week ago, I made a fleece Goldfish and explained to my family that we needed a name for our new "fish"...everyone contributed and then we voted and the winning name was "Cheddar". Everyone wanted to know why Cheddar had been created, and I shared with my family that I had read an article from the Fishful Thinking website on Pausing for the Positive, and it inspired me to create an activity for our family. "Starting tonight Cheddar will be looking for positive things he can help you do. Maybe William left his matchbox cars in the middle of the floor, whomever has Cheddar might want to pick up the cars for William secretly and leave Cheddar on top of his car case. Then William and Cheddar will start their adventure by finding something positive to do for someone else. Then, at each day's end, we'll talk about Cheddar's Good Deeds. We'll talk about what ...

 The Week 3 Challenge of Pepperidge Farm's Fishful Thinking Program was to work with your child to decorate a box that is kept on the table you eat at regularly. Keep a stack of index cards and crayons and markers next to the box. Two or three times a week, ask your child to write down or draw something good that happened, something good they saw or heard, remembered or accomplished. During a meal once a week, take turns pulling a treasure from the box and reading it aloud. Today was the perfect day for this. The weather could not decide if it wanted to be winter by sending falling snow or just being cold. Either way it was too muddy or too cold to play outside, so we talked about the things in our day and our life that were "good". Things like the smell of the cookies baking. When family comes to visit. Playing outside, a friend comes to join the fun. Our family. There is certainly an abundance of "good" in our lives. We searched the garage for a box worthy of ...