In this recent story that I heard on NPR, the host stated that a survey conducted by the group behind Sesame Street found that most parents would choose having children who are kind over having children who get good grades. Of course, teaching children to be kind does not work if it isn’t modeled for them. Behaving kindly ourselves can go a long way toward cultivating this in our children. It also helps when they hear and see real-life stories of kindness.
Larry Ferlazzo recently published a post about a StoryCorps/Upworthy collaboration that is producing videos for a campaign called, #WhoWeAre. There are a couple of videos that really reflect amazing kindness, and I wanted to share one of them today. I’m going to call it, “The Bus Driver,” since there doesn’t appear to be an actual title for the video other than its description.
We have a tendency to laud the men and women who make headlines with their fame and/or fortune. But it is people like the bus driver in this short story who are the true heroes of the world.
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