Kindness is just love with its workboots on. ~Author Unknown
Do you think traits such as kindness and compassion can be taught or are some people endowed with these traits from the start (innately)?
Many educators feel character education is the only way to reduce bullyng in schools.
YouAreNeverAloneFoundation.org has found a way to involve children in their program “I Matter, You Matter: Let’s Start the Conversation.”
In fact, school kids put their most pressing questions down on paper hoping to help improve their relationships with schoolmates, their families and friends. Through practicing empathy and understanding other’s points of view, the goal of this program is to advance listening and compromising skills and provide help in identifying one’s own feelings, too.
Teachers, your school can become involved, and the questionnaire that is being used in schools to begin the dialogue between children can be downloaded on-line.
Caring coins are also available with this program, which is an easy way to pass a message from person to person. More than 176,000 of these wooden coins have been shared around the world as a part of the YANAF mission. It started at the grassroots level to inspire caring connections in our community and the greater world by providing hands on opportunities to be kind.”
If you are concerned about our future generation of children, please spread the word about this program.
This blog is brought to you by award-winning author, Sue Batton Leonard.
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