Valusek, Ph.D., a respected psychologist and advocate for the prevention of child abuse. Furthermore, he wrote about bucket filling and bucket dipping in his “Bits and Pieces Jottings”. He explained that, "How we feel and how we will behave at any given moment is dependent upon how much or how little we have in our buckets." In the 1990s, the “Bucket Filler” concept reached a new audience of school and educators with Carol McCloud’s children’s book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids. Since then, thousands of schools around the world have used the bucket filling concept to become "bucketfilling schools" where kindness and respect are taught, practiced, and valued by