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Acts of Kindness Page

Contributed by K.S.
        At a restaurant I saw three older people going to a table. An older man was carrying a cane for a lady who was holding on to her husband - he was in a walker.  I was enjoying my dinner and talking with my husband.  I felt warmed by the actions of the man who obviously enjoyed being with this couple.
 

Contributed by M.C.
        I saw this on the Today show this morning and I was very moved by it.  The focus was how important it is  to know how to perform CPR.  The preface to the story was a compilation of  stories about lives that had been saved because someone used CPR.  A couple  of the stories involved children who performed the life saving act on another  child.  I was so moved by their acts of heroism, but like all heroes, they  felt they simply did what they had to do.  I never cease to be impressed at what kids can do and how cool they can remain in a crisis situation.   Children are alive today because of what these kids did.
 

Contributed by B.B.
        In my summer school class someone dropped their  crayon box. I helped him clean it up. I felt good after I helped pick up the  spilled crayons.
 

Contributed by N.S.
          The act of kindness I saw was my sister's boyfriend  emptying the trash for me.  I hate empty the trash but it is my job.   Before he dumped the trash I felt like I didn't want to empty it.  After he  emptied the trash I felt relieved I didn't have to dump it.  I also felt  good that he would do that for me.
 

Contributed by B.P.
        One evening after a softball game, one of the girls' parents brought me a plate of lasagna and bread so that I wouldn't have to cook for myself.  This made me feel appreciated in the community.
 

Contributed by K.C.
         My random act of kindness is one that I did .  One day I was at a skating  competition and I saw my old friend Victoria and it turned out that we were competing against each other. We had skated and were waiting for the  results. When they were up we found out Victoria didn't place. She took it very  hard and I knew how it felt so I tried to calm her down I told her I went  through it too. It was easy for me to relate to her and of course the next time  she did great.  That was my act of kindness.
 

Contributed by G.F.
        I was trudging through the pre-spring break blahs when I received a phone call from a former student's parent.  This was a surprise because it had been two years since I taught this student and never spoke with his Father before.  This parent had said that he remembered how much his son enjoyed my class and all of the hands on investigations we did in science.  He then went on to explain that he was an engineering professor at the U of I and would I be interested in working with him on a grant from the National Science Foundation.  Of course I was flattered and was very excited about the prospect of receiving a grant that would help my classes.  We worked on
the grant proposal together and just this past week I found out that I had received a 10,000 dollar grant.  I consider this to be an act of kindness on the part of Armand Beaudoin because it was totally unexpected.  It is great to think that we as teachers, whether we know it or not at the time, that we do have great impacts on the students and their families.  Armand has said that he really wanted to help out a teacher and he picked me for this project.  Because of Armand's act of kindness it as revitalized my enthusiasm for teaching.  His act of kindness has had a great impact on me and all of my future students.  I hope to directly pass this on to all of my
students this upcoming school year by enriching their education with help from Armand and the grant from the NSF.
 

Contributed by A.R.
        Natalie babysits me when my mom and dad go to work. We were watching TV when we saw the preview for a movie called Cats and Dogs. Natalie hadn't seen it yet and I hadn't either. So, we thought we could go and see it
together since it was hot and muggy outside. We called my mom at work and asked her if we could go. She said we could but she had to see what time it was and where it was playing. We waited then my mom called back and told us that the movie was at 2:10. So, we went and we had a good time and the movie was great!  Natalie didn't have to take me but she was very nice to take me to the movie!
 

Contributed by K.S.
        My act of kindness is,  I  was at Dairy Queen and I was getting something and my friend Katie was behind me and when I was ordering there was an old man with a walker that was trying to get out the door so she went over there and held it for him.
 

Contributed by L.G.
        I was taking a class a couple of weeks ago where participants were coming from cities all around to my city.  The first morning, a young teacher came in and said she was going through a toll booth that morning and when she went to pay the toll, the attendant told her the car in front of her had paid her toll for her.  She was so excited as she shared this with us that it really made us all feel good.  Too often we concentrate on the rude people of the world.  I know I thought that it was such a nice thing to do that I would try it the next time I hit the tollway.
        The next day the young teacher came in and said she paid a toll for another driver and it made her feel so good, she was going to do it from now on. Two others at our table had also traveled on the tollway and paid tolls for the cars behind them.  This seems to be a classic example of how random acts of kindness keep going farther than the originator ever considered.  Try it, it's really fun!!
 

Contributed by B.D.
        My act of kindness is one I did myself.  I was at a summer camp and it was the first day. They had a place were you could buy candy. None of of my friends had money but my mom had given me money. I went and I bought candy for all of my friends. I didn't have enough money for candy for myself but I felt good about buying candy for my friends.
 

Contributed by K.M.
        On Thursday I picked up trash at the pool before swim team. Isn't that great! My brother Tommy accidentally tripped his friend Gabriella and then picked her up. Wasn't that nice!
 

Contributed by M.M.
        One day I was at the Grocery Store and a old woman was carrying her groceries and she dropped them. A woman  came picked up her groceries and took them to the old woman's car. The younger woman helped the older woman put her walker in the back seat and helped the old woman into the car.
 

Contributed by B.K.
         My truck needed repairs and would be in the shop for a couple of days, or so I thought.  The two days dragged out to over five days!  During that time, my neighbor was kind enough to lend me one of her cars, a Mustang convertible.  I was very appreciative of my neighbor, she didn't have to lend me her car, but she wanted to help me out.
 

Contributed by S.D.
        My dad went to Nashville, Tennessee, last week, and he went to a restaurant.  He got some food, ate it, then reached in his pocket for his wallet.  He realized then that he didn't have his wallet!  The waitress came over and asked if something was wrong.  My dad said, "Yeah, sort-of."  She said, "Well, you can tell me."  My dad said,  "I forgot my wallet.  I only have $3.00."  The waitress said, "That's okay.  I'll pay the rest of the bill for you."  She paid the remainder of the bill.  My dad (obviously) thanked her.
        My dad then went back to his hotel twenty miles away.  He got a tip of $20 and took it back twenty miles to the restaurant.  He gave the waitress the tip.  He drove all that way just to give her a tip and thank her for her act of kindness!
 

Hello from Mrs. Haley's sixth grade  class in Tipton, Iowa.
         Mrs. Haley saw an idea and is using it this year in our class.  We have a bulletin board that says:
 "Let's Sew a quilt of Kindness this year".  At the beginning of the year there were no squares on the bulletin board. We are trying to fill up the whole board with squares that tell about kind acts we have done as a class.  So far, November l2, we have 8 squares.
 
        Squares l and 2
 Mrs. Haley's Mom goes to kidney dialysis 3 days a week.  We have committed to making seasonal decorations to help cheer up the dialysis unit.  Squares one and two are for leaves we made to hang in September, and turkey puppets that we just made and sent.
 
        Square 3 We participated in Coats for Kids and collected winter coats for needy children.
 
         Square 4  We participated in www.sightnight.org and collected 97 pairs of prescription glasses for needy kids and adults in other countries.
 
         Square 5  We answered President's Bush's plea for all American children to send $l to him for Afghan children.  We held a big bake sale to raise the money.
 
         Square 6 We made posters of peace to be airdropped to Afghan children  www.art-for-peace.org
 
         Square 7 We all brought pennies to donate to the Red Cross relief for Washington D.C. and New York.
 
         Square 8  We are making friendship bracelets for a class of children in 4 different states.
 
More to follow...Mrs. Haley's class
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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