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Fishful Thinking: Enter to Win a $10,000 Scholarship

Have you been following along with my Fishful Thinking posts? (Something’s Fishy Here, More About Fishful Thinking, Fishful Thinking Video) Have you been trying out some of these wonderful tools with your children? Do you have stories to tell about your adventures? Then enter to win a $10,000 scholarship for your child!

There are 5 areas you can choose from to get your story started: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, and Empowerment. Sound familiar? They should! I’ve been talking about these Fishful Thinking Ingredients all along! AND, the best part is once you create the story, you can share it with friends and family!

Write your Storybook before 7/31/2009 and get the chance to enter to win the scholarship.

Click here to start: Fishful Thinking Storybook
(You can also see samples of Storybooks there.)

You can enter as many times as you want, but there is a limit of one (1) sweepstakes entry per person/email address per day during the Promotion Period. This doesn’t limit you to the number of Storybooks you create though – there is no limit to those!

Full Disclosure: I’m a Fishful Thinking Ambassador.. .if you click the links, I will receive incentive points. However…I would NEVER sign up for something like this if I didn’t believe in it. And I would participate (and pass the information along) even if I didn’t get the points :)

Fishful Thinking: Video

This (very short) video is a GREAT reminder for how we can raise happy, optimistic children. I know you know it all already, but I enjoyed it, and it made me smile. So now I’m sharing it with you 🙂

I really wanted to embed it, but for some reason, WordPress isn’t letting me, so here’s the link:
Fishful Thinking Video

I’ll keep trying…

Full Disclosure: I’m a Fishful Thinking Ambassador.. .if you click the link, I will receive incentive points. However…I would NEVER sign up for something like this if I didn’t believe in it. And I would participate (and pass the information along) even if I didn’t get the points 🙂

Winner! And More About Fishful Thinking

Thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway.

I’m happy to announce that Random.org picked Clarissa as the winner! Clarissa – please email me with your address and I’ll pass that along to the Fishful Thinking people to get your $25 Macy’s Gift Card out to you.

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Want to learn more about Fishiful Thinking? Here are some links…

And you may have seen these before:

Giveaway: $25 Macy’s Gift Card!!

Sorry, this giveaway is now CLOSED.

The wonderful people from the Fishful Thinking program have provided me with a $25 Macy’s gift card to give away!

Show Me What You’ve Learned about Fishful Thinking

There are multiple ways to enter. Only one of the ways to enter is mandatory, all of the others are optional – you do not have to do all of them to be entered!

You have until Midnight on Monday, April 13th to enter. The winner will be posted on Tuesday the 14th.

Mandatory – 1 entry:

  • Go visit Fishful Thinking and browse through a bit. (Go ahead, I’ll wait!) Come back and leave a comment about something you learned.

Optional – 1 entry each:

  • Twitter about this post and leave a comment with a direct link to your tweet.
  • Blog about this post and leave a comment with a direct link to your post.

(Feel free to use this link for your posts: http://tinyurl.com/dlhoyt )

Optional – 2 entries:

  • Leave a comment about a Fishful Thinking activity that you successfully completed with your child. Here are a few to choose from:

Optional – 5 entries:

  • Do you have a child between the age of 4 and 12? Sign up to be Fishful Thinking Ambassador! Send me a message me via the Fishful Thinking site to confirm you’ve made it, and you’ll be entered 5 times. (Let me know if you’d like more information about being an ambassador – I’m more than happy to go on and on about the program 🙂 )

UPDATED 4/8/09: The Fishful Thinking Ambassador positions have all been filled up, so I’ve been asked to remove this part of the entry options. Sorry!!

More Fishful Thinking information to come!

Something’s Fishy Here…

Thanks to Cheryl, I’ve been thinking of fish!

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Not THAT kind. THIS kind:

You may have noticed the banner over there on the left-hand side…I’m a Fishful Thinking Ambassador, which means that I’m here to help you and your kids! Okay…not me personally. But I’m here to tell you about this awesome program.

I don’t know about you, but I eat my kids eat Goldfish all the time. And I remember eating them when I was with my Grandma after school, so they always bring back great memories. Well, Pepperidge Farm has created this exciting new program, Fishful Thinking. And knowing the Pepperidge Farm name – and the quality of their food, I was delighted to see that this same quality carries over to their program. A quote directly from them:

The Goldfish® brand cares about kids and wants to help inspire them to become the successes they were born to be. Through the Fishful ThinkingSM program, Goldfish provides parents with tools to help teach their kids how to navigate obstacles, overcome failure and achieve what they want.

Right? Sign.Me.UP.

So far, there is a quiz for you to take to see how resilient your child is, tips for playing emotion charades with your child, and a Spring Cleaning Optimism Article. And there are more things every week! (Don’t worry, I’ll keep you updated.)

Resilience Quiz

How resilient is your child? Find out with this short quiz, developed by Dr. Karen Reivich. Each time you answer a question, you will get a resilience tip from Dr. Reivich, with suggestions for how you can use a situation to help improve your child’s resilience.

Emotion Charades

Build your child’s emotional awareness through this simple, fun activity.

Spring Cleaning Optimism

An article on the mental and physical benefits of Optimism.

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Definitely not something fishy there!! 🙂

Full disclosure: As a Fishful Thinking Ambassador, I earn incentives from Pepperidge Farm for my participation. Every time you click one of my links, I get points toward the incentives. However, if you know me at all, you know that I wouldn’t endorse something I didn’t believe in!