What if schools taught kindness? What type of changes in our society would we see? Two teachers‚ Laura Pinger and Lisa Flook share their lesson from creating a "kindness curriculum" for young students. This twelve-week curriculum was brought to six schools in the Midwest. A couple of days out the week for twenty minutes‚ pre-kindergarten kids were introduced to stories and practices for paying attention‚ regulating their emotions‚ and cultivating kindness. This curriculum is said to improve kids’
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Kindness is its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. I would like to be President of this club. I would be a great President because I like to help people. I always try my best‚ get good grades‚ and I like to have a fun time. I like meeting new people‚ talking‚ and I am very responsible and trustworthy. I am very available. During most of my weekends‚ I have nothing to do! I would love to go to service projects like October-Fest in my spare time. I will do my best to come to the Club meetings
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in the moment. 1. What is live in the moment? A. Live in the moment is all about living like there’s no tomorrow. 2. Several ways to live in the moment that can make us stop worrying and start living : A. Commit random‚ spontaneous acts of kindness - donate RM1 to a beggar‚ picking up a litter or complimenting someone. B. Minimize activities that dull your awareness of the moment – less use of phones and computer‚ instead go gardening‚ hiking and hanging out with friends. C. Smile when
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out a knife and stabs Trevor‚ later killing him. This shows the absolute dedication that Trevor had to his community. The movement continued on and started to spread more and more‚ causing people across the nation to be rewarded by random acts of kindness‚ and to spread these acts further. Trevor truly demonstrated what it means to seek the common good and unmitigated well-being of
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sensitive in dealing with others. It means going out of your way to treat others in a way that you wish or want to be treated. A famous poet (William Wordsworth) once wrote; the best part of a man ’s life - his little‚ nameless‚ unremembered acts of kindness and love. Being nice when you ’re given a very harsh tackle in a soccer game by an opponent means that instead of trying to react by maybe planning to play mind game‚ you passionately perhaps give your opponent the benefit of dought. Perhaps he
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psychological response and defense mechanism exhibited by hostages in their will to survive. Mary exhibits the following characteristics of Stockholm Syndrome: submitting to and bonding with captors; mistaking a lack of abuse by captors for acts of kindness; and gratitude for not being killed. The reader first senses Mary’s strong will to survive when she is unable to lay down her life in the beginning as she had always planned in the event of an attack by the Indians. Possibly because of her
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because this had taught me the importance of having a family. NSTP also taught me to give back to the community. I may not have the capability to effect one big change on society‚ but with one random act of kindness‚ society can slowly but surely change. For if one man performs an act of random kindness‚ and others follow‚ then the world will be on happier place to live
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can benefit everyone in many ways. Thoughtful acts can help anyone involved by making someone’s day‚ helping in some form or fashion‚ and by bringing joy to people. Thoughtful and kind acts can make someone’s day in many ways. One small act of kindness can turn a whole person’s day around. If someone was having a bad day and you did something as little as smile at them in the hallway than they could have a better day just by that. A thoughtful action can also let them know that they are loved and
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believe random acts of kindness are related to our class because the health fields are service fields. We will be working with people. We need to be able to get along with others. We will need to be or learn to be givers. They say people get well faster if they have the right attitude. If we work in health services and we help our patients by being positive around them they may get better faster‚ and I think we will enjoy our work more too. My favorite random act of kindness from the past nine weeks
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Back in New York‚ I am the head of development for a non profit called Robin Hood. When I’m not fighting poverty‚ I’m fighting fires as the assistant captain of a volunteer fire company. Now in our town‚ where the volunteers supplement a highly skilled career staff‚ you have to get to the fire scene pretty early to get in on any action. I remember my first fire. I was the second volunteer on the scene‚ so there was a pretty good chance I was going to get in. But still it was a real foot race against
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