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Sunny Side Upbringing is a simple parenting toolkit designed to make your life easier and more fulfilled by keeping your family values at the forefront of daily life. Parent educator, Maria Dismondy, took her greatest advice, research, ideas, activities, and educational resources from over the last 20 years and recorded them for all of us busy parents to benefit from. The result is a month-by-month parenting guide that’s loaded with enriching content that fosters creative parent-child interactions rooted in the values that matter most to you.

Lucy has big hair, eats fun foods—like spaghetti in a hot dog bun—and is teased by a boy named Ralph at school because she is different. She tries to be brave but she wishes the teasing would stop. What should I do? she asks herself over and over. Lucy's Papa Gino reminds her to do the right thing and treat people with kindness. So when Ralph gets stuck on the playground and needs help, will Lucy use this chance to teach Ralph a lesson? Or will she have the courage to be true to herself and make the right choice with an act of kindness?