Adults play a huge part in influencing young minds and as such need to remember to model the behaviour desired in our children. Acts of kindness are simple yet effective ways to show children how to care for and think of others. An act of kindness doesn't need to be difficult or costly but can make a huge difference to someone's day or even life.
IDEAS FOR SHARING KINDNESS:
Y leave flowers on a windscreen Y help the elderly with their shopping
Y clean someone's car Y leave a chocolate for the cashier Y pay for someone's meal
Y feed an expired parking meter Y buy coffee for the person behind you Y give a compliment
Y listen to and play with children Y clean someone's home Y visit someone in a nursing home
Y give blood Y bake a cake for someone Y take some food or clothing to a homeless person
Y become an organ donor Y help in a soup kitchen Y give someone a warm hug
Y collect hotel toiletries and add them to a care basket Y pay for the someone's bus or train ticket
Y don't charge someone for some work you do for them Y leave a note in a lunch box
Y hand make a cheer up cards and deliver them to a hospital for patients Y babysit for someone
Y let someone go in front of you at the checkout Y acknowledge people who deserve to be
Y if you're an employer, allow your staff to leave an hour early one day Y listen to someone
Y ask an elderly neighbour if they need any assistance around their home
Y bake some biscuits and leave one with a Ripple Kindness Card on each desk at work
Y host a community BBQ & invite your neighbourhood Y give a busy mum a break and some 'me' time
Y when shopping, pick up things that have fallen off shelves or hangers
Y put a Ripple Kindness Card in a library book before you return it Y give a homeless person a meal
KINDNESS SHARED BY THE RIPPLE COMMUNITY DURING RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS WEEK:
Y Cut out coupons from the paper and leave them with the items featured in the store for people to find when they're shopping. Y I'm putting $ on a childs' account so they can eat lunch all week.
Y Just recently I helped a man at the grocery store by buying the items he was unable to get.
For me I love the feeling of knowing I was able to pass a good feeling that would not be forgotten.
Y Removed rubbish from and returned a shopping trolley.
Y Buy an all day travel ticket and leave it on the seat when your done with it.
Y I am helping my brother who is in sobriety with me. Well last night his ankle has swelled up as he has arthritist so bad - I'm doing all kinds of nice things for him this week.
Y I'm heading over to the local nursing home and giving my aunty and everyone else there a big hug and my home made muffins. Tying a massive pink ribbon on the basket and handing out Ripple Kindness Cards.
Y I was at work at the airport and a traveler needed change for the pop machine.
I couldn't break the bill he had, so I just gave him $2.50. It turns out that it was also his birthday!
Y I bought a coffee for a stranger. Y Left flowers on my sister's doorstep.
Y While shopping an old man came up and yelled at the service desk lady in front of everyone.
I told her not to worry, he was probably having a bad day. I get it all the time she said because people
are impatient. When I finished shopping I went and found her and handed her a chocolate and a kindness card and told her I hope her day got better. Big smiles lit up my heart!
Y Picked up clothing that had fallen on the ground and rehung it.
Y I shovelled snow from the driveway, sidewalk and porch of my neighbors whom you've never really met.
Y Raked up the leaves and sticks from the tennis courts after a storm.
Y The guests of a nursing home were given a red heart which had a hug on it. They had to show the card to people passing by them and when they were hugged, the person had to write their name on the card.
It was fun to see how they got their hugs. One man sat near the door and asked everyone who passed.
Y Just fixed a students eyeglasses while he waited, for free, because he told me he had
to study tonight for an exam tomorrow.
Y In my town all our trolleys are coin trolleys, I was at the supermarket and saw a old man bent-double trying to find a gold coin for a trolley, so I gave him one, he in turn tried to give me some silver coins but I said it was ok :) Felt good :)
There are so many things we can do to brighten someone's day, so let's share our ideas and stories
to help inspire others to create their own ripples of kindness.
Click HERE to read stories about the kindness shared by adults or the link below to submit your own.
IDEAS FOR SHARING KINDNESS:
Y leave flowers on a windscreen Y help the elderly with their shopping
Y clean someone's car Y leave a chocolate for the cashier Y pay for someone's meal
Y feed an expired parking meter Y buy coffee for the person behind you Y give a compliment
Y listen to and play with children Y clean someone's home Y visit someone in a nursing home
Y give blood Y bake a cake for someone Y take some food or clothing to a homeless person
Y become an organ donor Y help in a soup kitchen Y give someone a warm hug
Y collect hotel toiletries and add them to a care basket Y pay for the someone's bus or train ticket
Y don't charge someone for some work you do for them Y leave a note in a lunch box
Y hand make a cheer up cards and deliver them to a hospital for patients Y babysit for someone
Y let someone go in front of you at the checkout Y acknowledge people who deserve to be
Y if you're an employer, allow your staff to leave an hour early one day Y listen to someone
Y ask an elderly neighbour if they need any assistance around their home
Y bake some biscuits and leave one with a Ripple Kindness Card on each desk at work
Y host a community BBQ & invite your neighbourhood Y give a busy mum a break and some 'me' time
Y when shopping, pick up things that have fallen off shelves or hangers
Y put a Ripple Kindness Card in a library book before you return it Y give a homeless person a meal
KINDNESS SHARED BY THE RIPPLE COMMUNITY DURING RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS WEEK:
Y Cut out coupons from the paper and leave them with the items featured in the store for people to find when they're shopping. Y I'm putting $ on a childs' account so they can eat lunch all week.
Y Just recently I helped a man at the grocery store by buying the items he was unable to get.
For me I love the feeling of knowing I was able to pass a good feeling that would not be forgotten.
Y Removed rubbish from and returned a shopping trolley.
Y Buy an all day travel ticket and leave it on the seat when your done with it.
Y I am helping my brother who is in sobriety with me. Well last night his ankle has swelled up as he has arthritist so bad - I'm doing all kinds of nice things for him this week.
Y I'm heading over to the local nursing home and giving my aunty and everyone else there a big hug and my home made muffins. Tying a massive pink ribbon on the basket and handing out Ripple Kindness Cards.
Y I was at work at the airport and a traveler needed change for the pop machine.
I couldn't break the bill he had, so I just gave him $2.50. It turns out that it was also his birthday!
Y I bought a coffee for a stranger. Y Left flowers on my sister's doorstep.
Y While shopping an old man came up and yelled at the service desk lady in front of everyone.
I told her not to worry, he was probably having a bad day. I get it all the time she said because people
are impatient. When I finished shopping I went and found her and handed her a chocolate and a kindness card and told her I hope her day got better. Big smiles lit up my heart!
Y Picked up clothing that had fallen on the ground and rehung it.
Y I shovelled snow from the driveway, sidewalk and porch of my neighbors whom you've never really met.
Y Raked up the leaves and sticks from the tennis courts after a storm.
Y The guests of a nursing home were given a red heart which had a hug on it. They had to show the card to people passing by them and when they were hugged, the person had to write their name on the card.
It was fun to see how they got their hugs. One man sat near the door and asked everyone who passed.
Y Just fixed a students eyeglasses while he waited, for free, because he told me he had
to study tonight for an exam tomorrow.
Y In my town all our trolleys are coin trolleys, I was at the supermarket and saw a old man bent-double trying to find a gold coin for a trolley, so I gave him one, he in turn tried to give me some silver coins but I said it was ok :) Felt good :)
There are so many things we can do to brighten someone's day, so let's share our ideas and stories
to help inspire others to create their own ripples of kindness.
Click HERE to read stories about the kindness shared by adults or the link below to submit your own.
PAY IT FORWARD WITH KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY TO INSPIRE POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE WORLD
You may not always see the results of your kindness, but rest assured, it's always appreciated and when you leave a Ripple Kindness Card, it reminds the recipient to "pay it forward". Kindness is catching so do something nice and watch the ripple take hold... because your kindness counts.
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