Happy Kids Songs: A TOS Crew Review

Happy Kids Songs - & Happy Kids Songs Workbook: Hands-On Activities to Build Character, Social, and Emotional Skills.

Emotional Skills
Friends & Sharing (Set 1) - $4.95



The Friends & Sharing album contains 5 original songs:

- Sailing on the Seven Cs (about the “Ingredients” of friendship)
- Everybody Wants to Find a Friend
- Sharing Friends (Including others in play)
- Happy as Happy Can Be
- Together (Sharing time/saying goodbye) Happiness & Attitude (Set 5) $4.95

Volume 5, Happiness & Attitude starts out with -

Shake It Out and Dance, a modern pop tune about turning “I can’t” to “I can.” This album also includes: - Who Knows What’s a Kudo? (About Giving compliments)

 - I Don’t Understand (Handling limitations & asking for help)

 - Be Good to Yourself 

- Better Together 

Manners & Character (Set 6)- $4.95

Volume 6 topics included honesty, manners, quirks, the golden rule & how there is more than one way to view a situation.

Happy Kids Songs Workbook: Hands-On Activities to Build Character, Social, and Emotional Skills.  - $12.56

Geared for ages 3-8, but children ages 0-9 are likely to enjoy this too!


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Bentz Test Laboratory has a bunch of music loving littles around! Happy Kids Songs has created 8 albums of catchy tunes to help reinforce character lessons for your younger crowd.  We took a listen to 3:  Friends and Sharing (Set 1), Happiness and Attitude (Set 5), Manners and Character (Set 6).    We also got a peek at the Happy Kids Songs Workbook: Hands-On Activities to Build Character, Social, and Emotional Skills.  Check out Dr. Mac's introduction on this short video:    
    

We received downloads of these songs, and were easily able to enjoy them on my mobile device, or - you can burn a CD to take on the go with you.  We are logging a lot of hours in the van lately (anyone feel my pain...) so, it's a perfect time to share some music that has a message! 

 

The songs are professionally produced, and very catchy.  These little tunes tend to stick in your head - by design.  They focus on character issues common to many children this age.  Not specifically Christian, but strong moral messages. 

 

One of my tester's favorites was "Sailing on the Seven C's"  from Friends and Sharing - Consideration, commitment, communication, concern, curiosity, and cooperation.  It's a great message - and reinforces the message that we have been teaching our children at our Co-op! (we call it the 3 C's...)

Another song that was VERY meaningful for several of my daughters was "Together".  Since we just moved, we've been dealing with a lot of sadness about leaving friends behind.  Here's an excerpt:  

It's time to go, to say good-bye.

  But we know the reason why

 We can never end

Time that we spend together,

Because you're my friend.

  Happiness and Attitude has another family favorite - "Shake it Out and Dance" - about moving away from the "I can't".  Do you have a kiddo that struggles with this?  Feeling like they can't do something?  Well, you can just "Shake it Out and Dance!"  Works every time around here!  The discouragement turns into a dance party, and everyone feels better!  Even mom :-)

Happy Kids Songs Workbook: Hands-On Activities to Build Character, Social, and Emotional Skills is a handy 122 page workbook that contains all the lyrics to the songs, as well as hands-on activities and crafts that you can use to teach the character traits.  This would be the perfect companion to use the music in a Co-op or classroom setting. 


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