Posts Tagged ‘act of kindness’
Positive Feedback Goes a Long Way
Recently, we were asked to start an initiative at my work. We were told to call one family each day to share a positive thing about their student. I’m a teacher who works in a school that services families of all backgrounds. Many of these families are of a low socioeconomic background. A vast number of these families have a child with a disability. They often do not hear words of encouragement. It’s not something they are used to hearing. It has been my pleasure to make these calls to…
Read MoreA Promposal 15 Years in the Making
A single act of kindness may seem isolated in the moment, but kindness often paves the way for beautiful things to happen for years to come. Sometimes this beauty may not be revealed until over a decade later. At least this was the case with my daughter, Lizzie, a boy named Sam, and kindness shown to me by his mom, Angie. I was introduced to Angie in a state of desperation. I had just been told some unsettling news by a speech pathologist family friend. “Your daughter is showing all the…
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