KINDNESS
Kindness is a basic human value and social skill that spreads as we practice it. By being kind, we set a chain reaction into motion, because kindness is contagious and uplifting, and makes everyone feel good! Kindness opens our heart, builds good human relations and ripens into friendship as we make space for love and understanding to grow within and around us.
Kindness is a virtuous circle!
Someone who is kind is caring, attentive, loving, respectful, soft-hearted, calm, patient, polite, considerate, tolerant, generous; is a happy helper and loves to smile: that’s the universal language of kindness! To be kind is easy when we realize that all we need to do is to treat others the way we would like to be treated. When someone is going through a hard moment, or facing a challenge remember your own! To encourage them, believe in them, inspire them and cheer them up, are all acts of kindness.
A good way to reflect on the meaning of kindness is to ask yourself how it makes you feel when people behave or speak kindly to you? When you grasp how kindness feels, maybe it will be easier to find something that you could do or say today, that will touch someone’s heart with kindness!
Brainstorm your ideas with your friends and make a kindness poster to remind everyone how we can show kindness to one another. Be creative and use Marty’s kindness tree template or make your own, to describe the values that bloom when we nourish our life with… kindness!
Don't miss this fantastic Memory Game on kindness! You will find the cards in our game section!
"The Devil's Hair" tells us the story of a barber named Donat, and how he became kind and gentle!
At the beginning of each month you will find a new value to "walk with"! If you wish to pick another one in the meantime, our "Value Card" page is set up for that! And why not make your own value cards to keep at home or take to school, so everyone can pick a value?!