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comments (19) | email this | print | permalink Custodian Finds A Card!--posted by A Custodian, on Jan 14, 2006 How did you hear about us? My Friend handed me a card. What inspired you to join? The joy of doing good things. --Joshua, in New York This is my second time emailing you. First, I only asked for a few cards to try this at our school and the response has been great. Both teachers and students have been coming to my office in the Guidance, where I am Academically Gifted Resource Teacher, asking for more cards and wanting to join in this game. Also, some were quite excited when they had been tagged. Your cards really brighten our school days. If ... comments (4) | email this | print | permalink Small Acts of Trix-Mix--posted by Anita, on Jan 27, 2006
comments (4) | email this | print | permalink Simple Surprise For Sister--posted by Jen Davies, on Feb 20, 2006 I plan to put one in each of my sisters lunches with a special surprise snack and note of love. I will then give them 4 more cards to encouarge them to take part in their own acts of kindness, while I use the remaining cards with random acts when I see a need. I hope encouranging my sisters when they are young will help them and their friends discover a joy of helping others that they will carry on throughout there lives. comments (5) | email this | print | permalink A Needy Widow--posted by Uyamat Christiana Bassey, on Mar 21, 2006
Where I lived I noticed a widow that struggles so much to take care of her three children. comments (4) | email this | print | permalink A Simple Prayer--posted by Shelley, on Apr 16, 2006
comments (12) | email this | print | permalink A Christmas Gift For A Six Year Old--posted by Brendan Moran, on Nov 29, 2007
comments (14) | email this | print | permalink A Kindness Lesson in Action at Dinner--posted by Kim, on Apr 26, 2006
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We were recently at a concert. The young artists were playing their hearts out but unfortunately, the audience was largely empty. comments (3) | email this | print | permalink Flowers That She Couldn't Smell--posted by bluebuddha, on Jul 1, 2011 “Everyone says the flowers smell good but I don’t smell anything. Nothing. Do you smell them?” she asks, in her heavily accented voice. After walking around a busy street looking to do a random act of kindness, I had stumbled into this flower shop. Even though my mind was busy devising possible scenarios, I had a gut feeling that something was going to present itself. A little startled by the flower lady’s question, I tell her that “the flowers smell ah-mazing and perhaps you should take a break once in a while so you can enjoy them too.” Before ... comments (70) | email this | print | permalink Christmas With My Son--posted by Anon, on May 5, 2006
comments (11) | email this | print | permalink Family Kindness Journal--posted by Yvonne, on May 10, 2006
Last month I started a family kindness journal. Every day each member in the family must write down the good deed that they did that day. It is amazing to see how far my children's deeds have come. comments (6) | email this | print | permalink Bystander No More--posted by Michelle, on May 13, 2006
comments (10) | email this | print | permalink Sunflower and a Frog--posted by JZ, on Feb 23, 2008
comments (24) | email this | print | permalink My Most Prized Possession--posted by Anon, on May 22, 2006
comments (4) | email this | print | permalink What I'm Doing With Smile Cards--posted by KC, on Jun 5, 2006
comments (3) | email this | print | permalink Buying a Miracle--posted by Anonymous, on Jun 13, 2006
A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes, carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall's Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door. comments (23) | email this | print | permalink Tagging the Whole Entire Plane!--posted by Anon, on Jun 16, 2006
What better way to start a journey than to tag the passengers on my flight? comments (11) | email this | print | permalink Do Not Fear, Smile Retrievers Are Here!--posted by anita, on Jun 28, 2008 Last-weekend, my kids along with few other kids from the neighborhood volunteered to help me wash my car. We embarked on our car cleaning mission when my 10 year old came up with the idea of washing other people's cars as well. It was pretty hot outside and I had no plans to continue being in the bright sun. She further wanted to give lemonade to passerby's for free. I had seen little kids serve and sell fresh lemonade for a small cost (may be 25 cents) but not free. I felt fuzzy and decided to help her out. ... comments (9) | email this | print | permalink A Chain of Kind Events, Started By a 3rd Grader--posted by Wanda, on Jul 21, 2008 Lucia is 8 years old and in November '05 she wrote a contract for the whole family to sign. "We will all agree to getting a puppy dog on April 15 2006." She had been asking for a puppy for about a year already! It was inevitable now! We signed, the five of us, but did inform her that she needed to start saving money to be able to buy the puppy and so she did. At least once a week she would sit down to count, penny at a time, how much she had collected. In change she raised ... comments (4) | email this | print | permalink An Unforgettable Birthday Gift--posted by Laksmi, on Jul 24, 2006
comments (7) | email this | print | permalink Looking for Josephs--posted by Della, on Jul 28, 2006
She stood looking at every tag on the tree for over an hour. Ten years old and a heart of gold, she decided that she would give up one of her Christmas gifts to the boy named Joseph who needed clothes but wanted a skateboard. comments (11) | email this | print | permalink Do I Have Enough?--posted by Sharon Palmer, on Aug 10, 2006
I was doing some last-minute shopping in a toy store and decided to look at Barbie dolls for my nieces. comments (16) | email this | print | permalink A Cup of Chai At 3AM--posted by MS, on Aug 22, 2006
comments (3) | email this | print | permalink 10th Birthday, Car Washes, and $62.82--posted by JZ, on Sep 2, 2006 It was Neil's 10th birthday party. After a dozen close friends super-soaked each other with water and stuffed themselves with food and cake, this sunny August morning party would be about a different kind of fun -- fun of giving. Today, we decided to "tag" people with free car washes. First up were the signs. Taking all the art supplies and glitter and fancy colored pens, the kids sprawled all over the ground to create couple of large "Free Car Wash" signs; no matter how hard they tried to color inside the lines, these signs had "we are kids" ... comments (41) | email this | print | permalink Encouraging a Pirate--posted by Roger, on Sep 3, 2006
My wife and I were at Disneyland taking the shuttle back to the hotel, when this boy -- I guess he must've been 4 or 5 years old -- gets on the shuttle bus with his pirate sword and eye patch. comments (12) | email this | print | permalink Parle-G Biscuits and Grains--posted by Raghu, on Oct 7, 2006
comments (10) | email this | print | permalink All You Need is Little Bit of Love--posted by hpotter, on Sep 6, 2006
comments (7) | email this | print | permalink Lessons From My Daddy--posted by millie, on Oct 3, 2006 well, im millie, im 15 years old, and im going to tell you about my daddy =) i dont see him much anymore, but i learnt so much when i was with him. i remember one time, dad, my little brother and i were on our way back to sydney on a plane...we were stuck inside the plane for an hour and a half after we landed because some trailer wouldnt work. anyway, a little girl and her brother were sitting in frount of us, they were about 4 or 5, and they were afraid of being stuck in the plane...the little girl was crying. So my dad started to do "magic" tricks, he had a yo yo and was making it "dissapear" and making funny faces, in no time at all, my dad, me, and my little brother had a small audience, the people next to us and the people behind and in frount. the parents of the kids thanked us, and we havnt seen them since, but i learnt from my dad that day...Laughter is the best medicine. comments (6) | email this | print | permalink Three Smiles are Better Than One--posted by Danceman, on Oct 19, 2006
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I was at the airport enroute to visit my parents over the holidays and was on the train heading to my terminal resting easy knowing that there was plenty of time before my flight. On the train I noticed that there was a gentleman helping a young mother who was travelling alone with a baby and didn't seem to know where she needed to go. The man asked me which gate I was going to and after realizing I was headed in the opposite direction decided he would help the mother. 
Some deeds are big some are small, but the point is for us to think of other people.
As a single mom, it is often hard for me to provide those little "extras" my children seem to want.
When I was 21 yrs old, I was dating a girl whose parent's friends were going through a divorce. They had a 6 year old daughter and unfortunately their separation was just before Christmas and we both knew how upset the little girl was. Her dad was not living in the house and wasn't planning on spending Christmas with them.
So my girlfriend and I wrote little notes like, "On the first day of Christmas, my secret Santa gave to me...." and put a gift each night on their porch for the little girl. We started this about 2 weeks ... 
I love to do the random things like pay for the person behind me in the fast food drive thru.... This week after church we decided to go out to eat with our kids in tow. Our family consists of 6 children, some adopted. We went to a local restaurant. We were seated next to a family of 4 children, and I noticed the young mother had a bandana on her head and appeared to have a hair loss issue, it immediatly touched my heart.
I told my husband I want to pay their bill. He looked around, I think he was looking ... 
I have a five year old son and two 18 month old twins and especially at Christmas time I wanted them to truely understand what the act of giving was all about. So I made a list of people that were less likely to recieve gifts or love and let my five year old chose who we would give gifts to. 
I was with my oldest son and we were on the lookout for an open parking space in our jam-packed shopping center. We spotted a perfect one in the next row of spaces, and I manouvered our van around the turn, all the while hoping no one else would spot it and grab it before I could. And, as luck would have it, a lady was wheeling her shopping cart right in front of us, and it looked like it was getting away from her - crammed with bags and cartons of soda underneath. She herself was ... 
When I was on CBS's Survivor - Africa all I had with me were the clothes on my back and my one luxury item of choice: a hackey sack.
My hackey sack was my most prized possession, the one item that took me temporarily away from the Survivor game and home to the familiar... and I gave it away. It may sound silly, but it was a tough decision - a real moment of personal truth.
I was with a group of other Survivor contestants distributing HIV/AIDS testing kits to a small village in Kenya when I met Milton. Milton didn't ... 
My daughter's birthday is May 29. She was 6 by then. As it was Monday, we prefered to celebrate it earlier, i.e. on Saturday 27 May. This was easier for me as I'm free on Saturdays. On Thursday the entire family was busy packing the presents and putting funny pins on them. I promised my litte princess that I would wake her up early in the morning and distribute the presents to her classmates. 
We live in a small flat in Ranip (in India). While all the families in the society live in flats, many families’ economic prosperity is not much better than many living in slum. One such family lives behind us. A couple lives with their son and the husband’s brother and mother in a small inherited two room flat, that is 8 feet by 15 feet in size. The entire household subsists on the daily wages of the daily wages the male earns from doing labor work (20 – 50 rupees/day). 
With the recent floods in Gujarat, India, I've been busy with flood relief work in the affected slums. We distribute medicines, food, clothing, etc. but what is the most important thing to give is love.
Saturday I was with my 8 year old son and we were in Boston at the Boston Commans. There was a manyelling out "spare change." He was a homeless man. | Home | About Us | Our Friends | Get Involved | Contact us |  |  |  |