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The Kindness Box

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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There are so many books for readers of all levels that highlight the importance of kindness. There are also many videos and websites that convey this as well. Here are seven books that teach kindness and good manners.

The Kindness Journey is an awesome site which shares the journey of a 12 year old and his mom focusing on kindness through their travels. You can also print kindness cards, or you can choose a kindness quote each day as a way to inspire your family to be their best selves.

Looking for ways to keep the kids busy and learning during social distancing? Sign up for the Prepared Parent, a daily newsletter filled with everything to help mom and dad in their roles as teacher-parents.

5 Ways to Teach Kindness and Empathy to Kids While Social Distancing

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
For more than 15 years Doing Good Together has been creating picture and chapter book lists for big-hearted parents. We love helping parents harness the power of a good read to inspire kind kids.

Until now, however, we’ve offered scant guidance for parents looking to embellish their own bookshelves.

The best nonfiction offers much-needed guidance and inspiration in times of change, and nothing thrusts us into a constant state of change quite like parenting. That’s why we’re excited to roll out this growing list of books for big-hearted parents!

Raising Engaged Humans: A Book List for Big-Hearted Parents — Doing Good Together™

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Kindness habit helping others

Six Ways to Boost Your “Habits of Helping”

Make it a practice to help one person every day. This is an easy and gratifying exercise that, with very little practice, can become a natural part of your daily routine. Whether you help by holding the elevator, dropping a dollar into a homeless person’s hand, or pitching in to help with a loved one’s chore, notice how this makes you feel. Positive psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky has shown that people who perform acts of kindness (five acts on a single day each week) tend to feel happier after six weeks. I would suggest also trying one act a day, each and every day, as author Cami Walker did as she was struggling with multiple sclerosis, chronicled in her book 29 Gifts. Experiment and find the right dose and intensity that makes you happy.

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Once upon a time, you woke up and decided to become the hero of your own tale. You decided that what you have to say matters. You decided what you had to give could make a difference. And you decided that you could make this world better. There would be a happy ending.

That hero is in all of us.

Sometimes, you may forget how much you have to offer. Even the smallest good deed has a ripple effect. When you give, you develop a better perspective, peace of mind, and appreciation for life. You stop focusing on all your problems when you go out and help others. You take on tasks that others may not feel like doing. You show kindness in places that need it. You don’t overlook anyone or anything around you. There is always something you can do to help.

4 Simple Ways to Make a Difference And Make This World Better

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Kindness starts with being kind to yourself

Ever notice how much better you treat others when you’ve taken care of yourself? In a pressure-filled environment it’s easy to work through lunch, work through dinner, and respond to emails at 11 pm. But the world often rights itself when we take a moment to breathe, assess what we need, and seek it. (Sleep? A relaxed meal, anyone?)

Be kind to yourself when you misstep, which happens to everybody. Setting upon ourselves may cause collateral damage, making others the target of the anger or frustration or disappointment that we really feel about ourselves. It can feel good to direct these upsetting emotions away from ourselves and onto others, but for how long, really?

The heart and science of kindness - Harvard Health Blog

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”

Lao-Tzu

Hundreds more -

Kindness Quotes (3314 quotes)

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”

~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

~ Dinah Craik
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. ”

~ Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
 
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