Don’t just celebrate the season.Let them be part of it.
Make this holiday season an experience they’ll remember — and a foundation they’ll carry into the year ahead.
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SAVE THE DAY — The Hero Within — Holiday Edition
Discover courage, build character and become everyday heroes through meaningful holiday experiences.
MAKE THE DAY — The Gift Within — Thanksgiving Edition
Discover unique gifts, express gratitude, and use talents to warm the hearts of loved ones.
SHARE THE DAY — The Light Within — Christmas Edition
Encourage generosity, strengthen family and community connections, inspire to spread the light making the holiday season brighter.
The Hero Within · The Gift Within · The Light Within (All 3 Books)
Make this holiday season meaningful with all three books — Save the Day, Make the Day, and Share the Day. Save $3.98!
The holidays are one of the best times of the year to give your child a fresh look at what the season really means — and to show them their part in it.
“When children take part, traditions take root, shaping who they become, strengthening their families, and building communities for generations to come.”
5 quick reads in each book that fit easily into busy holiday days, each leading to a guided conversation and a creative activity.
Hands-on holiday projects where children practice courage, gratitude, and generosity right alongside family members.
What Children Miss When They Only Watch the Holidays
Too often, holiday seasons become passive consumer moments instead of foundational life experiences. Here is what kids miss when they don't have a role:
Lack of Purpose
Children may experience the holidays as a series of activities and celebrations without understanding the traditions, values, and meaningful lessons that make them worth carrying forward.
Loss of Individuality
Children may miss opportunities to express their unique personalities, share their individual gifts and talents, and bring their own creative ideas and perspectives into holiday traditions, helping build a foundation for their developing identities.
Undiscovered Gifts
Children may miss valuable opportunities to share their interests, talents, and gifts to enrich the holiday experience.
Limited Thinking and Communication
Children may spend the holidays following instructions rather than engaging in meaningful conversations, sharing ideas, and contributing creatively to enhance the holiday spirit.
Weakening Connections
Families may share holiday celebrations without creating meaningful opportunities for communication, collaboration, shared experiences, and stronger intergenerational relationships.
Limited Sense of Contribution
Children may focus on the excitement of receiving during the holidays without discovering how their choices, actions, and individual gifts can bring value to others and their communities.
Bring the Values of the Season into the Year Ahead
Help children bring the values, discoveries, and positive choices of the season into the rest of their year.
✨This Season Only Comes Once a Year. Make It Count.✨
Why now: This holiday season, bring the stories to life together as your child builds character, discovers their gifts, and makes memories your family will treasure for years to come.
Family Togetherness
The holidays bring families together like no other time of year.
Celebrate Growth
As the year comes to a close, it's a lovely time to celebrate how much your child has grown.
Stepping Stone
What they discover now becomes a gentle stepping stone into a brighter new year.
What Your Child and Family Gain
Experience the Season with Meaning
Enrich your holidays with purpose, bringing traditions to life through stories, creativity, and participation. Help children understand how traditions strengthen family connections, create lasting memories, and build a legacy that can be carried through generations.
Discover Who They Are
Create opportunities for children to recognize their feelings, strengths, and unique qualities, using self-expression to enrich their participation in holiday activities and their connections with family members.
Discover Their Gifts
Encourage children to explore their interests, talents, and potential, finding creative ways to express and share their gifts through holiday projects, traditions, and meaningful contributions to others.
Connect Stories to Real Life
Bring stories to life through relatable situations and thoughtful questions. Encourage children to reflect, share ideas, and consider how their choices and actions can make a difference in their everyday experiences and holiday celebrations.
Build Family Engagement
Create opportunities for families to participate, create, and connect throughout the holiday season. Shared stories, conversations, and hands-on activities build anticipation, strengthen relationships, and bring the holiday spirit into the home well before the holiday arrives.
Make Activities Meaningful
Transform holiday activities into opportunities for children to practice kindness, courage, gratitude, and generosity. Give them meaningful ways to participate, contribute, and help create traditions and memories that families can carry forward.
Start today, and give your child a season to remember and a new year to look forward to.
✨Everything You Need for a Meaningful Season✨
A comprehensive, joyful toolkit that turns ordinary holiday days into lasting character.
A character development system
A decision-making process
A social and emotional learning process, grounded in CASEL's five areas of SEL
15 bite-sized read-aloud stories
Coloring pages
Hands-on activities
The Grown-Up's Guide with guided conversations
Family engagement opportunities
A certificate and recognition program
A system that acknowledges children's strengths and growth over time
Highlight: Celebrate Their Growth
Our certificate and recognition program honors the character and gifts each child shows throughout the season, a proud close to their year.
★Small Moments, Lasting Growth★
When children learn to understand their feelings, make thoughtful choices, and treat others with kindness, the growth shows up in everyday life: in how they get along, how they handle hard moments, and how they see themselves.
more children get along better with others, sharing, cooperating, and expressing their feelings respectfully, and feel less stress and worry
more children grow in key life skills: understanding their feelings, calming themselves, solving problems, and making responsible choices
more children show fewer behavior challenges
less bullying when children learn these skills together
percentile points higher in school achievement
more children grow academically
of parents say social and emotional skills matter as much as academics
Children whose families take part in their learning, whatever their background, are more likely to do well in school and show stronger social skills.
*Figures reflect research on social and emotional learning and family engagement in general, not results of this product.
Meet the Author
Cheryl Lynne is the author and illustrator of the RiseForce Kids Series, and a parent. She holds a dual master's degree in Social Work and the Arts, with a focus on mental health and education.
Over the past 30 years, she has worked with young people and their families, helping them recognize their individual strengths, explore their interests, and discover their potential while identifying career paths that align with their aspirations. RiseForce Kids grows out of that work: stories and activities that help children discover who they are, what they're good at, and how much they have to give, helping them grow into caring members of their families, their communities, and the world around them.
Choose Your Holiday Journey
Get all three books together for $19.99 (save $3.98), or select any individual volume for $7.99.
The Hero Within · The Gift Within · The Light Within
All 15 stories across Books 1, 2, and 3. Includes Grown-Up's Guides, activities, and the Certificate program.
- All 15 bite-sized read-aloud holiday stories (5 per book)
- A character development & decision-making system
- Social and emotional learning grounded in CASEL's 5 areas
- Complete coloring pages & hands-on holiday activities
- Grown-Up's Guide with guided conversation prompts
- Family engagement opportunities for home & classroom
- Complete Certificate and recognition program
SAVE THE DAY
The Hero Within — Holiday Edition
Discover courage, build character and become everyday heroes through meaningful holiday experiences.
MAKE THE DAY
The Gift Within — Thanksgiving Edition
Discover unique gifts, express gratitude, and use talents to warm the hearts of loved ones.
SHARE THE DAY
The Light Within — Christmas Edition
Encourage generosity, strengthen family and community connections, inspire to spread the light making the holiday season brighter.
Questions?
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