Happy World Kindness Day 2021!
World Kindness Day is celebrated all around the world every year on November 13th. It was introduced in 1998 by the World’s Kindness Movement, a coalition of nations’ kindness NGO’s.
You can learn more about it here.
I am a HUGE proponent of bringing more kindness into this world!
Want to bring more kindness into your world? (more…)
This poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sums it up:
“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden, and keep out the weeds. Fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds.”
The etymology and meaning of kind is ”class, sort, variety,” from Old English gecynd “kind, nature, race,” related to cynn “family” (kin)
Kind, kindred, kindergarten, kin…all related.
This is how school should be. This is how the world should be.
It should be our nature, part of our race, part of our family, part of the class.
I long to see more kindness toward each other. All of the stress in the classroom is causing there to be more unkind thoughts, words and deeds.
But I don’t believe that there are unkind hearts…in children or in their teachers.
I just think the pressure and the stress are causing all of us to think, say and do things that are not coming from the heart, but rather, from the mind. A mind that is flooded with cortisol and anxiety and fear and anger and made-up stories and perceptions that are being created from the negative input from social media, television, news, music, violent video games, unreasonable and unreal expectations, etc.
What should kindness look like in the classroom?