Teaching Kindness to Overcome Intolerance and Violence
Teaching kindness is an important requirement of character education and, therefore, vital to peace education. Those who want peace need to overcome intolerance and violence. Those who teach peace must teach character traits that will produce tolerance and non-violence. Kindness is one of those character traits. Intolerance How can teaching
Character-in-Action Wears Shoes of Kindness
I just read a true story that is an excellent example of kindness being exercised. I’ll change the names, and let you see what I mean. The story involves two individuals in a small town – the kind of town where everybody knows everybody else – a town with a
Character Involves Kindness
Suppose you want to exercise kindness toward a woman who is a cancer survivor, but you don’t know what to do? Imagine that your employer’s wife is a burn victim, and you’re brainstorming to create a truly great act of kindness for her. Most of us would be limited to
Kindness – Exercised by the Strongest
Washington, D.C., May 10, 1975. A police officer stops cars on the city streets, telling drivers, “Roll up your windows and lock your doors. It’s Human Kindness Day.” Surprised? Why would 125,000 people, gathered to celebrate kindness, trigger such caution? Reports say that there were sporadic assaults throughout the day,
Kindness Week
Kindness Week in North America falls in February each year. International Friendship Week follows. You might want to use these two weeks, back-to-back, to highlight this character trait: kindness. Why not plan a kindness party? Invite a few people to whom you want to show kindness in a special way.
Give Teens Kindness
1. If your daughter’s going away for a few days, tell her you got a bodyguard, and hand her a small teddy bear. 2. Lead, don’t follow teens. 3. Listen to them. 4. Be proactive with rules. 5. Buy the domain name of your teen’s name, and give them a
Kindness Exemplified
(A true story) D.L., a young professional woman, was moving from Portland, Oregon to Chicago, Illinois. The truck she rented was fine for her and her belongings, but she hesitated to take her beloved cat until she found appropriate housing at the other end of the move. “Don’t worry,” a
Practical Kindness
I don’t know how old you are, or what the state of your health is. I don’t know how long you will live, but all of us will, at some time, come to the end of our mortal lives. When you end your journey on Earth, how will your friends
Chopsticks
Ignace Paderewski, waiting backstage before a concert one evening, suddenly heard “Chopsticks” being played on the big Steinway piano he was to use. He also heard the crowd roar with jeers. Grabbing his coat, Paderewski raced to the stage, and saw a nine-year-old boy at the piano. The boy’s mother
Quotes on “Kindness”
Kindness …begins by observing and recognizing the needs of others, and then acts to meet whatever needs it is able to meet, with no strings attached and no expectation of any kind of return. “There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.” Aeschylus
