Today’s post comes from Marilyn Decalo, the Education Director for The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation.

Happy Random Acts of Kindness Week! The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is sharing ideas and stories from hundreds of people celebrating kindness and performing kind acts across the country this week, and we couldn’t be more thrilled! Friends, teachers, parents, children, co-workers and communities have taken kindness to heart by doing kind acts and inspiring us with their stories on the Random Acts of Kindness   and website.

One of the most inspiring stories we found is told in our Extreme Kindness Challenge winner’s video “Peach’s Neet Feet” produced by The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation and Storytellers for Good,.  Madison Steiner paints art in the form of footwear and donates them to children with long-term illness and cancer.  What an awesome act of kindness!

While Random Acts of Kindness Week is designed to celebrate the value of being kind to one another, we really don’t need a special day or week to do kind acts. Focusing a little more on the positive and treating others with kindness can happen everyday in simple ways like saying thank you or smiling at someone. Our kind acts can be as small as holding the door open for someone or as big as volunteering at the local food bank.  We don’t need to wait for a natural disaster to show kindness, and everyone from pre-school students to seniors can be kind.

Here’s how you can start practicing kindness.  As you look around in your community this week, whether that’s your school, workplace or city, notice where someone can use a little more kindness in their life.  Choose to make a difference by offering a little something of appreciation.  A note of thanks, helping with a chore, or just holding a door open for someone can make them feel appreciated and brighten your day. Commit to doing it again the next day. Pretty soon you’ll be doing kind-hearted acts everyday.

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation invites you to join the kindness movement and use our free resources to for teaching, sharing and doing kindness.  We’ve got ideas, quotes, lesson plans, activities and videos to inspire and empower everyone to be kind

Kindness can change our world; one joyful, selfless act at a time!

 

Kindly,

Marilyn Decalo, Education Director

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

Check out Peach’s Neet Feet the winner of the Extreme Kindness Challenge. This was originally posted on