13 Tips On Teaching Kindness

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!  We need to work more as a country with getting along with each other.  The best way to start by doing so is to teach children kindness.  If they grow up being kind this world will be a better place.

• Do something to make a child smile.  They will smile back, which will make you smile!
• Ask yourself what have I done to fill a bucket today?  
• Ask yourself what are you doing for others?
• Laugh more
• Hug more
• Smile more
• Care more
• Tell the kids you love them.
• Teach children to work out their own problems in a nice manner by modeling I statements.
• Play more learning review games with them.
• Say yes more.
• Surprise them by eating with them.
• Play with them at recess.

These tips above will certainly help model kindness to your students and they are highly likely to be kind right back to you and their classmates.  Let's help make this world a better place like Martin Luther King, Jr. did.

Leave your tips for being kind in the comments below.  Also share with us what you did to be kind to a child today!

Thanks for hoppin' by Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings.  Keep on smiling!