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The Kindness Box

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Geoff-Allen

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Try - goodgoodgood.co kindness quotes -

“If we are asking for the world to be kind, we must first ask what are we doing to add more kindness to the world. If we are asking for the world to be more loving, we must first ask what are we doing to add more love to the world. We are the vessels for the things we seek.”

Joél Leon
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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“I honor the sanctity of all religions — I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.”

Leslie Jordan
 
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Geoff-Allen

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The immense need for John-Tyler Binfet’s book Cultivating Kindness: An Educator’s Guide is found in the dedication. When asked by Binfet for a definition of kindness, one student wrote, “Kindness is making someone feel like s/he belongs or feels special. Like the world didn’t make a mistake.”

As human beings, we deeply crave kindness. So much so that kindness is the number-one quality we look for in romantic partners. And yet, in education, kindness often gets the short end of the stick, seen as irrelevant to academic success or too soft for the workplace. However, pointing to years of research—including some of his own—Binfet makes a strong case for cultivating kindness in schools and how it can contribute to student and educator well-being, positive peer relationships, and an inclusive school culture. He also shares examples of how students of all ages describe their experience of kindness, both giving and receiving it from peers and teachers alike. As he wryly points out, helping students to learn, rather than giving them fancy field trips and extra recess time, is how teachers can demonstrate kindness.

Comes from this list of books -

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/thought_provoking_books_for_educators_in_2022

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Small acts of kindness are sometimes powerful enough to make major headlines. In fact, you've probably read about or watched a few of these stories unfold in the past month. Here's how it usually plays out: One person will do a good deed—such as placing a cup of coffee on reserve for a homeless person, or paying off a stranger's layaway balance at Kmart—then a trend will start, with more and more people getting in on the act. The result is a feel-good story for all. The benefactors are happy to have done a good deed and the recipients are pleased to have been given a small but meaningful helping hand.

The Science of Giving: Why One Act of Kindness is Usually Followed by Another

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Books teach kindness

Quite a few ... for example -

As a parent, you can bolster your child’s innate kindness. In fact, when your child is between ages 4 and 7, that’s a critical developmental window when their brain is especially open to developing a lifelong kindness habit.

How? According to a report by Harvard researchers:
  • Kids need to hear from us that kindness is important,
  • Kids need daily opportunities to practice caring for others, and
  • We need to encourage kids to consider the perspective and struggles of others.
That may sound like a lot, but we’re lucky to have one powerful parenting tool that will knock out all three of those in one fell swoop: children’s books about kindness.

The best children's books that encourage kindness toward others

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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You may have heard the saying, “Before you criticize or judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes.” This quote is all about empathy. Empathy is the ability to be aware of the feelings of others and imagine what it might be like to be in their position (or in their shoes).

Empathy is a key ingredient in positive friendships and relationships. It reduces conflict and misunderstandings and leads to helping behavior, kindness, and even greater success in life in general.

Key Strategies to Teach Children Empathy (Sorted by Age)

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Geoff-Allen

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At Healthy Minds Innovations we wake up every day pursuing the vision of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world.

A curriculum for preschool educators to teach kindness and compassion in schools just like math and reading, now freely available to everyone. The Kindness Curriculum was developed by our affiliated research organization, the Center for Healthy Minds at University of Wisconsin-Madison, guided by their mission to cultivate well-being and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the mind.

Sign Up to Receive the Kindness Curriculum | Center for Healthy Minds

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Be a kindness role model. Our kids are soaking in everything we do and say. Make sure your child catches you being kind. You might offer to help someone struggling to hold packages in line at the post office, call or send a card to a relative who is sick, or any number of other things. If you volunteer your time in a more formal way, make sure your child knows what you do and why it is important to you. Talk about kindness as an important value in your family.

For more parenting tips -

5 Tips to Help Kids Develop The Kindness Advantage - Positive Parenting Solutions

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Kindness is love in action. Paramhansa Yogananda counseled, “Be calmly active and actively calm.” To be consistently kind we need to consciously direct our thoughts and emotions by operating from our inner center with poise and grace. Through the practice of regular meditation we calm our restless thoughts, thus enabling us to respond with kindness, rather than just reacting to people and circumstances.

When we consciously choose to be kind, we experience an intrinsic feeling of love and joy. When we practice kindness we are focusing on the needs of others, thus also practicing self-forgetfulness. God can then use us as channels for divine grace, which in turn increases our capacity to manifest kindness.

“The willingness to face the truth about oneself softens the heart and fills it eventually with kindness toward all.”

Paramhansa Yogananda said, “Heartfelt kindness is liberating. When you experience deep kindness in your heart, you are at peace inwardly and see everything as part of God. You accept all things without judgment, and look with kindness and sympathy on everyone, no matter how wrong. Always be kind to others so that you may learn the art of being kind to yourself.”

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