12 Netflix Picks to Teach Kids Kindness & Acceptance

By 8/18/2014 04:38:00 PM

As my son gets ready to go back to school, I hope to get him prepared with everything he needs to know. He's already gotten the basics of reading, math and writing down so this year I wanted to focus on his social skills. The age of 6 years is a good time to reinforce how he should act with his classmates, teachers and anyone he meets.

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One of the lessons I want to refresh with him is how to be kind. Which for a 6 year old isn't always easy. At this age he still has some "me, me, me" tendencies that he needs gentle coaching away from. Thankfully, there's lots of little ways you can teach kids to do a kind act, that has big results.

One way to help kids learn the lesson of being kind, is by watching these 12 Netflix titles that promote kindness and acceptance.

12 Netflix Titles that promote kindness and acceptance

For your big kids:

1. Rudy
2. Mulan
3. A Mile in His Shoes
4. Radio
5. Good Luck Charlie: Down a Tree
6. Glee

12 Netflix Titles that promote kindness and acceptance

For your little ones:

1. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Vol. 1 Ep. 6: Friends Help Each Other
2. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Season 3, Ep. 4: One Bad Apple
3. Arthur, Season 15, Ep. 8: Muffy's Classic Classy Club / Best Enemies
4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5. Super Why, Season 1, Ep. 61: The Ugly Duckling: Becoming a Swan
6. The Fox and the Hound

Hopefully our kids will learn that kindness and acceptance are just as important as any academic lessons.

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27 comments

  1. I love Radio! I've seen that movie a bazillion times. I'm kind of surprised that the Sandra Bullock football movie (drawing a blank here...) isn't on the list.

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  2. I love this idea and love how you turned it into a way to encourage kindness.

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  3. That is a really great idea! Teaching kids kindness at a young age is always a good thing.

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  4. Radio is definitely one of my favorite movies because it teaches kids about kindness and tolerance. We love Netflix and it is usually on in our home.

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  5. Those are all great choices! Netflix has so many good movies to watch!

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  6. Rudy is one of my all time favorite movies, but I haven't shown it to my kids yet. I think I will do that this weekend.

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  7. Netflix is one of my favorite homeschooling resources because there are so many cool movies and documentaries that we can watch. You definitely want to teach kids about kindness, good movie choices here for such lessons.

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  8. We just watched Mulan on Netflix the other night. My boys love having so many movies available all the time.

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  9. I love my netflix! We hook it up to our Apple TV and it's great to be able to use it for tv shows and movies!!

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  10. What a great idea. With bullying being such an issue these days teaching kindness, compassion and morals is so very important. Great job mom!

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  11. This is a great idea, and a great way to teach kiddos about kindness! I LOVE Radio, too, that's one of my faves :)

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  12. Im addicted to the shoe Glee can't wait for it to come back on

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  13. Teaching kids to be kind is... I think the best thing a parent can teach their children. I just hope he doesn't meet some little meanies out there that break his spirit.

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  14. I love your movie selections! I am trying to get my girls to watch The Little House on the Praries series but they won't budge. Now that is a show that teaches kindness.

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  15. We love netflix at our house. Great shows on there for the kids. Amber N

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  16. Oh my goodness! What an awesome idea. My son loves Daniel Tiger!

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  17. We new juSt got netflix and I haven't had much chance to go through it all and see what it's about but this is great and helpful. My kids will love it

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  18. I see a few movies that I would love to watch again. I love Mulan. It has been a while since I saw it

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  19. Radio is probably one of my favorite movies! It teaches you so much about acceptance and kindness. I definitely recommend this!

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  20. Radio is such a great movie! It's been awhile since I've watched it though. I think it would be great to rewatch it with my kids.

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  21. Give me all the Disney DVDs! I especially loved Mulan :)

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  22. Now that is a great challenge! I may have to do a punch box like this with my girls soon!

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  23. What a great challenge and idea. I think I have seen all of the movies for the older kids and Ioved them all. Great choices.

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  24. I like the selections you've used for good examples to teach the lesson. I'm curious about Mulan, I know it's old now, but we haven't seen it (yet). If it teaches a good lesson on kindness, that's an added plus.

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  25. That's such a great way of encouraging kindnesses. I love that you'll be doing that.

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  26. What a fun and creative way to encourage and teach kindness. My daughter loves Netflix and watches tons of shows.

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  27. I love the idea of a kindness punch box. I think I'll incorporate it in my own classroom.

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