Children around the world remind us of their need for love and affection by asking us to fill their buckets. Tender responses affirm that bucket filling is the essence of loving and being loved.
Since her first book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids, was published in 2006, Carol McCloud has authored or coauthored seven additional books on "bucket filling." With a small team of educators, she travels around the world with one goal in mind: to help create happier lives. Carol is a graduate of Oakland University School of Education (Rochester, MI), a certified Emotional Intelligence Trainer, and long-time member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Karen Wells earned her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in Child and Adolescent Treatment, from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California, and has been a mental health clinician for the past eight years. Karen has taught parenting education to foster parents, incarcerated females and court-ordered families dealing with custodial and behavioral issues. She currently teaches in the Child Development Program at Modesto Junior College in California.
