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Kindness for kids and schools.

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Kindness is a powerful tool in the classroom.  Poor performance in schools today is linked more to issues with social behaviors and maladaptive student relationships than with academic curricula and learning methods. For students to achieve and excel, there needs to be a stable, supportive and safe environment where students can focus on and embrace what is being taught. The practice of kindness creates such an environment. 

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Random Acts of Kindness (Inspiration!)

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Only have 5 minutes or no money to spend?

  • Compliment the first three people you talk to today
  • Smile at five strangers
  • Leave letters of encouragement on people’s cars
  • Leave a note on someone’s car telling them how awesome they parked
  • Hold the doors open for people
  • Let someone go in front of you in line
  • Help a senior with their groceries
  • Hold the elevator for someone
  • Write a kind or encouraging message on a napkin
  • Offer to take a photo of a couple
  • Give someone a gift card that you don’t intend to use
  • Give up your seat on the bus/subway/train to another person
  • Instead of posting negativity online start a “Positive Gossip” thread.
  • While you’re out, compliment a parent on how well-behaved their child is
  • Tweet or Facebook message a genuine compliment to three people right now
  • Email or write an old teacher who made a difference in your life
  • Compliment someone to their boss
  • Let them have the parking space
  • Take out your neighbor’s trash/recycle bins for them
  • Give away items for free on Craigslist.
  • Give someone a hug.  Ask first!
  • Check in daily by text with somebody currently going through a hard time
  • When you’re throwing something away on the street, pick up any litter around you and put that in the trash too.
  • Relay an overheard compliment
  • Offer to return a shopping cart to the store for someone loading groceries in their car.
  • Say thank you to a janitor
  • Put your phone away while in the company of others
  • Have a LinkedIn account? Write a recommendation for coworker or connection.
  • Keep an extra umbrella at work, so you can lend it out when it rains
  • Send a ‘Thank you’ card or note to the officers at your local fire station.
  • Try to make sure every person in a group conversation feels included
  • Make plans with that person you’ve been putting off seeing
  • Leave a note of appreciation on a local business’ front door
  • Stop to talk to a homeless person
  • Answer that email you’ve been avoiding
  • Talk to someone at work whom you haven’t talked to before
  • Help someone struggling with heavy bags
  • Donate your old eyeglasses so someone else can use them.
  • Learn the names of your office security guard, the person at the front desk and other people you see every day. Greet them by name.
  • Send a gratitude email to a coworker who deserves more recognition.
  • Say hi to the person next to you on the elevator
  • Write a kind message on your mirror with a dry erase marker for yourself, your significant other or a family member
  • Text someone just to say good morning or good night.
  • Send a friend a funny video from YouTube
  • Help someone load their luggage into the overhead bin
  • Give someone else the cab that you hailed
  • Stop to assist someone who looks lost
  • Say something encouraging to a parent who’s struggling with rambunctious kids in a restaurant or grocery store.
  • Call a family member just to catch up
  • Tag a kindness hero of yours on social media and tell them why you admire them

Have $5 or less to spend?

  • Leave money in/on a vending machine for someone
  • Insert coins into someone’s parking meter
  • Bake cookies for your neighbors, a local charity, a nursing home, etc.
  • Pay for someone’s morning coffee
  • Pay for someone’s bus/cab fare
  • Leave some money in a Redbox movie when you return it for snacks for the next people to watch the movie
  • Pay the toll for the person behind you
  • Make two lunches and give one away
  • Send dessert to another table
  • Tape coins around a playground for kids to find.
  • Leave a box of goodies in your mailbox for your mail carrier.
  • Leave quarters at the laundromat
  • Say yes at the store when the cashier asks if you want to donate $1 to whichever cause
  • Bring a security guard a hot cup of coffee
  • Buy lemonade from a kid’s lemonade stand.
  • Be the person who puts a tip in the tip jar at the coffee shop
  • Carry a $5 gift card with you and give it someone random
  • Buy a lottery ticket for a stranger

More Time?

  • Shovel a neighbor’s driveway when it snows, rake their leaves, mow their grass
  • Host a Happiness/Appreciation dinner
  • Walk a neighbor’s dog
  • Babysit for free for anyone who could use the time out alone
  • Send a letter to a good friend instead of a text
  • Wash someone’s car
  • Make a family member breakfast in bed, or bring them coffee
  • Collect all the shopping carts in a parking lot
  • Write a list of things that you adore about a friend.  Send it to them.
  • Run errands for a sick friend
  • Donate your hair after a haircut
  • Leave unused coupons next to corresponding products in the grocery store
  • Practice self-kindness and spend 30 minutes doing something you love today.
  • Offer help to any parent on an airplane who is travelling alone or who is obviously struggling with their child(ren)
  • Post inspirational sticky notes around your neighborhood, office, school, etc.
  • Help tutor a struggling student
  • Play board games with senior citizens at a nursing home
  • Cook a meal or do a load of laundry for a friend who just had a baby or is going through a difficult time
  • Make someone a homemade blanket or scarf – give to somebody you know or donate to a local cancer support organization
  • Donate or recycle your old laptop and electronics
  • Have a clean up party at a beach or park.
  • Encounter someone in customer service who is especially kind? Take an extra five minutes to tell their manager.
  • Place positive body image notes in jean pockets at a department store
  • When you go somewhere to get or do something, ask the people around you if you can pick up anything they need
  • Make a handmade greeting card for obscure holidays
  • Write kind messages on the sidewalk in chalk
  • Invite someone who may be alone over for dinner
  • Volunteer at a local charity.
  • Write letters to strangers who need them. More Love Letters has a list of people who could benefit from letters of encouragement. Each person has been added to the web site by a friend or family member.
  • Collect soda can tabs to donate to Ronald McDonald House for sick children and their families.

More Money?

  • Make dinner for a family in need
  • Buy flowers to hand out on the street
  • Buy a movie ticket for the person behind you
  • Pay for someone’s meal at a restaurant
  • Bring in donuts or healthy treat for your co-workers
  • Leave your waiter a generous tip
  • Buy groceries for the person behind you
  • Donate items to local homeless shelter
  • Invest in your community – shop locally
  • Donate items to after school programs/any programs supporting children in need
  • Give someone a book you think they’d like.
  • Purchase some extra dog or cat food and drop it off at an animal shelter, bring them old blankets
  • Take flowers or treats to the nurses’ station at your nearest hospital
  • Leave a gas gift card at a gas pump.
  • Take all your change to Coinstar and donate your collection to charity
  • Contact local children’s hospital and ask what they need
  • Send flowers anonymously to somebody who would never suspect it was you
  • If you’re an Amazon.com customer you can donate Amazon.com’s money to your favorite U.S. nonprofit through Amazon Smile

A Kindness Secret Agent is Born

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My heart was pounding, my turn at the drive-up window was next.  I drove up and as the cashier gave me my total I asked how much the car behind me was.  “$5.50”  Ok, how about the car behind them? “$11”.  Can I get all that with this $20 bill?  Yes!  I felt a surge of adrenaline shoot through me.  

Then I drove away.

I could get addicted to the nervous excited feeling.  I had no idea if the people behind me were independently wealthy or if they scraped together all their extra change for a special treat.  And it didn’t matter. It wasn’t my job to decide if they were worthy or deserved my gesture.  I was giving freely because it gave me a rush to know that their day was going to be brightened and we were connected, even for the the minute that they received the news that their order had been paid for.

I’d like to imagine that they would be inspired to pay it forward.  But if they weren’t in that moment I’m confident that the seed was planted that kindness inspires kindness.  It’s contagious.  Actually it is KINDagious.