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Showing Appreciation and Giving Compliments

Content Focus: Students will learn about and demonstrate ways to show appreciation and give compliments.

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Before and After:

  • Consider the questions before you begin showing appreciation and giving compliments.
  • Reflect on the questions as the week comes to a close.
  • When did you all last give a compliment to someone?
  • How does it feel to receive a compliment?
  • How does it feel to give a compliment?
  • Why did you decide to show appreciation or give a compliment last?

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Giving Compliments:

  • Reminds us to “notice the good.”
  • Bolsters the self-confidence of the compliment giver and compliment receiver
  • Strengthens relationships
  • Makes us a source of optimism

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The Compliments Project - activity

Also known as Spreading the Love is an activity where each person is in the “hot seat” while all of the other family members have the opportunity to write positive statements about that person. After all family members have been in the hot seat, it is a perfect time to discuss how they felt when they got to read the positive statements about themselves? Here is a video example of the compliment activity in class version…

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https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/compliments-project/

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Giving Compliments: Tips, Tricks, and To-dos

  1. Give the compliment right away--in the moment to make it meaningful.
  2. Always think the best! Never ask questions.
  3. Make your compliment genuine and positive.
  4. Say something that isn’t obvious.
  5. Focus on achievements over physical traits or items.
  6. Don’t compliment everyone the same way.
  7. Compliment generously, but not excessively!

Free Compliment Activity: Create compliments on pieces of paper, post-it notes, etc. and leave them around the house for free compliments to give out.

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Giving Compliments: Tips, Tricks, and To-dos

Utilize the compliment cards with your children and allow them to use as well! Sending a confidence booster is always nice to do!

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Showing Appreciation:

  • Improves our physical health and lessens depression
  • Causes us to become more helpful in our daily lives
  • Lessens materialism
  • Infuses energy and optimism
  • Creates compassion

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Showing Appreciation: Tips, Tricks, and To-do’s

  • Family Activity: what fills our bucket? (looks like, sounds like, feels like)
  • Practice the steps while doing everyday activities:
    • Family meals
    • “Morning meetings, check-ins”
    • When someone does something kind, (even if “it’s expected”)
    • When someone fixes a mistake (behavior, action)

Bucket Filling Family Activity: Come up with a list of what “bucket-filling” looks like, sounds like, feels like, and make it specific to your family.

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Showing Appreciation: Activity

Appreciation Visualization Activity

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Social Skills Video: Compliments and Appreciation

Please enjoy this all ages video on How to Accept a Compliment !

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Other Ideas to Look at:

  • Have your kids take a “Love Language” Quiz to figure out how they want to be complimented and shown appreciation.
  • Short Video: Appreciation for What we Have
  • Video: People React to Being Called Beautiful [WARNING] two students use expletives
    • Possible to use those two instances as a bigger conversation: why is it so hard for some of us to accept compliments?
      • What does that tell us about the frequency/infrequency of our peers giving and/or receiving compliments?
  • Give a Compliment Get a Compliment