A video for Kindergarten and 1st grade:
Kindness: You know this strength.
It comes out without trying. Often, kindness is what happens when you allow yourself to be kind. Often, it is you being you -- without trying to look cool, protect yourself, worrying if you will have enough.
Sometimes kindness is NOT saying or doing things that would hurt another!
If kindness is your top strength then you are kind and generous, and never too busy to do a favor. You enjoy doing good deeds for others even if you do not know them well. You are not doing the act of kindness for the recognition, you are doing it help another.
I like to talk about kindness in two other ways that people do not talk about a lot.
1. Kindness to yourself. Some people are really kind to others and forget to be kind to themselves. Talking kindly, being supportive or patient with yourself is important. Once you accept that you make mistakes and that is okay, knowing that you are learning, hopefully doing your best and there is no need to criticize yourself makes it easier to be kind to others too.
Being kind to yourself can make being kind to others a natural way being-without even having to think about it. You are worthy of kindness from yourself too.
2. Another form of kindness is when you could but do not be mean or rude to someone. By NOT hurting them when you could, can showing kindness. The thing about kindness is that you do it because it feels good, not for a reward. So even if you could have insulted them but you didn’t, no one will know-but you will. You can think of yourself as having strengths of self-control and kindness.
Think of a time or a person you could a better job of being kindness by not tearing them down, telling them how they messed up or making fun of them to another person. Do you want people around you to think of you as kind or worried about you being rude or mean to them? The most important question is how do you want to be?
Kindness is everywhere around you, every day. I am not one to have a day dedicated to kindness, because I want it every day. But I love seeing when everyone on the same day coordinates their efforts and was kind to each other and ourselves what happens--just to show us what we can be like.
Think for a second what that might look like. It might work for a minute, an hour, a half a day, a whole day.
How would you be?
What would you do and not do?
What would you say and not say?
How would others be?
When should we try it?
We will set up the day and announce it. To increase our kindness I imagine we would be even better to each other when we get to red, we would follow the stoplight more for better timing and give people their space, how much better would you and everyone around you feel that day?