Encouraging children to be kind in today’s world

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My husband and I are blessed with three children…

three amazing, healthy, intelligent children.

God has been gracious in many ways so many ways.

I acknowledge that it’s not enough, as a parent, to educate my children and teach them to be independent, but it’s so much more important to raise them to be good human beings…

to have a heart to serve and love.

Encouraging children to be kind in today’s world

In small ways, we’ve been encouraging our children to be sensitive to the needs of those around them who’re going through the journey of life with quite a few challenges. Some challenges being bigger than others.

Our kindness acts have been as simple as going to a local awareness walk with signs and BIG smiles, to cheer on walkers supporting the cause, to donating food to the pediatric cancer wing patient family pantry in our local hospital, books to the children in the pediatric cancer wing and the local home for abused children,

and spending time loving on shelter animals to help them acclimatize with children, thereby increasing the chance of them getting adopted sooner.

We’ve been reminding them, irrespective of how simple or complex, if an act of love can bring joy in the smallest of ways, then it’s all worth it.

Hasbro’s Children’s Fund and generationOn, the youth service division of Points of Light have partnered to launch Rules of Kindness, a campaign to encourage children and teens to create, share and act upon their own rules of kindness. (If you need a little inspiration, visit the site to find tools, resources, and even volunteer projects your children could help with within your zip code.)

The drive behind all of this? The burning desire to kindle a fire of empathy and caring among today’s youth.

You have from now till October 17th, to encourage your child to sign up (or you can sign up on their behalf, if your child is too young to do this independently) and submit their own rules of kindness. By sharing their kindness vision and story, your child becomes eligible for a chance to win one of four $500 grants or one of twenty $250 grants to put towards furthering those acts of love and kindness in their community.

The goal is to encourage 75,000 youth to sign up and join Hasbro and generationOn’s movement for kindness. With just a few days to spare, we’re a few thousand away from our goal.

Will you share the word?

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