Over the years, I have learned so many important things about kindness from my students. I have seen students come together during the most difficult of situations and how much more effective students are when they work together to serve in the community. But I think one of the most beautiful things I have learned…
The most memorable act of kindness I have been involved in as a giver was around 3 years ago when I gave one of my adult students a red scarf that my mum had knitted. I was teaching a TAFE class during winter and every Tuesday I would arrive wearing a different coloured knitted scarf….
When we asked people what made their world a wonderful place, we were delighted by some heartwarming responses. Enjoy… A local butcher brought me a huge gift basket of different types of meat, spice rub, etc. It had to be valued at $100, but he just dropped it off yesterday for my family telling me…
What is the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?Have you ever been asked to do a task – maybe you were starting a new job – and you believed before you started that you wouldn’t be good at it? Maybe you thought to yourself, ‘I am not going to be able to do this,’ only to try it out…
He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris, Minnesota. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, but had that happy-to-be-alive attitude that made even his occasional mischievousness delightful. Mark talked incessantly. I had…
. To all those who feel as though there efforts are going to waste, that their kind words are falling on deaf ears or their actions are not appreciated, fear not. For years I have lived with the mindset of: ‘I must be tough and cold to survive in the world’. I frequently talked badly of…
. I teach newly arrived immigrant teenagers English as a Second Language. Many of these children come to me from countries where their living condition are horrible and life-threatening. Often, one of the parents comes to the US and works, sending home money so that smugglers can be paid to bring other family members here (usually…
My wife made me some cookies (very good ones btw). A student came to my office and asked if he could have one. He came back the next day for another one. The following day he dropped off this chocolate cake and this card. ‘Thanks for the cookies. Here’s something back. Make someone else’s day better’….
. When I was 9 years old, I had to change to a new school for grade 3. On the first day of school, my new classmates actually helped me to wipe my desk and chair and packed my pencil case and books under the desk. During lessons time, they took the trouble to ensure…
A few weeks after we launched Ripple Kindness Project’s Kindness Curriculum, I was approached by a year 5 boy who had been part of the audience at the special assembly held at his school.
I teach high school in a very impoverished area and my students can rarely do much for others. I collect cosmetic samples and unwanted but unopened lotions, pretty soaps etc from the kids. We tie ribbons on them and make them look pretty. We make a big gift basket full of the stuff. I buy the…
I am a 5th grade teacher in Normangee, Texas, and this year for Christmas, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade kids came together and gave items of need to our soldiers overseas. My 5th graders never complained or said a word about why they wouldn’t receive a gift for Christmas. These kids understand that Christmas…