Bucket filler / bucket dipper

[ido]

I saw the neatest children's book in Hallmark today when I was at the mall. I don't recall the title, but the entire book was about how each person goes through life with an imaginary bucket. Good thoughts/deeds fill the bucket, while negative thoughts/actions "dip" out of the bucket.

It encouraged children to be "bucket fillers" rather than "bucket dippers" - to include saying that when you dip out of someone's bucket, you dip out of your own bucket, too. (ie. doing something negative or hurtful)

I am going to try to keep that as a conscious thought - and it really ties in well with the unloveable thread I started recently, IMO.

Anyway - I just thought I would share.

 

[radhead]

I hate when people go back and double-dip the same chip they just ate off of.

 

[ido]

I hate when people go back and double-dip the same chip they just ate off of.

I had a date do that once in the buffet line at a wedding reception. I was HORRIFIED!

 

[radhead]

I hope that kind of behavior gets counted against them by God somehow. Sorry, I didn't really understand your post. I'm not good with metaphors. But a whole *bucket* of dip? Who would need to eat that much? It's good that they take some of it out sometimes to share with other people. Or maybe it's for a big party?

 

[Teufelhund]

I saw the neatest children's book in Hallmark today when I was at the mall. I don't recall the title, but the entire book was about how each person goes through life with an imaginary bucket. Good thoughts/deeds fill the bucket, while negative thoughts/actions "dip" out of the bucket.

It encouraged children to be "bucket fillers" rather than "bucket dippers" - to include saying that when you dip out of someone's bucket, you dip out of your own bucket, too. (ie. doing something negative or hurtful)

I am going to try to keep that as a conscious thought - and it really ties in well with the unloveable thread I started recently, IMO.

Anyway - I just thought I would share.

So my cynicism is helping the world by keeping the bucket from overflowing?

 

[ido]

I hope that kind of behavior gets counted against them by God somehow. Sorry, I didn't really understand your post. I'm not good with metaphors. But a whole *bucket* of dip? Who would need to eat that much? It's good that they take some of it out sometimes to share with other people. Or maybe it's for a big party?

hehe no. The bucket represents our emotional well-being. If it's being filled that means that we are doing things for others that make us and them feel good. Bucket dipping simply means that we are having our emotional well-being depleted either through our own negative actions (towards others) or by the negative actions of others (towards us).

I hope that makes more sense.

 

[ido]

So my cynicism is helping the world by keeping the bucket from overflowing?

Not exactly, but nice try to excuse it away.

 

[radhead]

Actually, it sounds pretty cool. I think that could be a very good way to teach children.

 

[ido]

It was a really great book. I skimmed it and thought the message it sends is a wonderful way of teaching children compassion/kindness. I'm probably going to end up getting it for my sons...and might even buy one for my older son's teacher.

 

[Blackguard_]

^^^^
Problem is, small children from playing with sand already know full buckets are heavy.

(Seriously, I think the author got it backwards. Negative things should weigh on people, not make their loads lighter)

 

[radhead]

But children also associate heavy buckets with good things like Halloween candy, Easter eggs, etc.

 

[ido]

^^^^
Problem is, small children from playing with sand already know full buckets are heavy.

(Seriously, I think the author got it backwards. Negative things should weigh on people, not make their loads lighter)

If you read the book and see the illustrations, it shows the full buckets as colorful, wonderful things and the empty buckets are drab and dreary.

But, I see your point about the sand-filled buckets.

 

[ido]

But children also associate heavy buckets with good things like Halloween candy, Easter eggs, etc.

True that! hehe

 

[Sketcher]

It had to be done.