I often wished we could hear about all the good things people did every day while watching the news, and now it has happened!  Fantastic to see things like a doctor singing for his patients or a police officer dancing in the street.

Cashiers in grocery stores are thanked by every customer just for being there.  And if anyone finds out you’re a paramedic, you are automatically their hero.

Seems like people everywhere are looking for ways to scatter kindness every day.  What a wonderful world!

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Today is a time when we can use words to remind our contacts how much they mean to us. We may not be able to shake their hand, join them for coffee or at a ballgame. But that doesn’t lessen the value we place on them.

If feeling at all isolated or overwhelmed with being confined to limited spaces, a few kind words might be the highlight of someone’s day.

Thinking of you!

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Who is the kindest person you know?

Imagine how they will feel when you tell them they are the kindnest person you know.

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A school in Ireland is teaching kids some important lessons by replacing homework with random acts of kindness for one month.

On Mondays, the students are asked to reach out to an elderly individual and communicate with them. Tuesdays, the kids are tasked with making a family member’s life easier by taking over a chore or helping without being asked. Wednesdays are for random acts of kindness of any kind. Thursdays are for doing something for themselves to take care of their own mental and physical well-being. They  keep track of their kind deeds in a Kindness Diary which can be entered in written or pictorial form and then signed by their parents.

The school also set up a Kindness Bucket where students write down positive observations to boost their fellow classmates’ esteem. On Friday mornings, a teacher randomly selects a handful of notes and reads them out loud.

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