Kindness Starts With One®

It was the end of October in Montreal and the air was fresh. It was almost the day of my mother's birthday. My family and I were so excited! We were thinking to buy a vanilla cake for her, but suddenly, my sister had an excellent idea: me, her, my father, and my aunt were going to bake the cake...

I was playing with my best friend in the summer. Wen I saw a old lady that was surching something. I came a litlebit closser to her to see wath she was surching. My friend didnt know wath I was doing. I went to the old lady and sed « wath are you surching for ». After I helped her...

Winter 2024-2025. Christmas vacation in the city.
I gave letters to my neighbours and in my letters I wrote: 8 January put your recycling cans on your balcony. I picked up all the cans. To trade at a recycling centre. We picked up 250$ Canadian dollars for a Foundation. It is important to do this because I want sick children...

Last week I went to my grandma's place. We talked and she told me that her favorite chocolate wasn't in the markets that she checked. So I gathered all the little coins of the house to have in total 9$. I then went to the little market at the back of our street. I know that she doesn't go there...

Sarurday, I was going to an animale shop and a man dropped his wallet. I saw that so I went out of the car and I called him. But he doesn't hear me, so I decided to take it and give it. After he decided to gave me money, but I refused. And I returned to my car. My mom...

In May, in the school, the day when the tub carriers changed the teacher asked me to be responsible for the tub. I gave up my place to a person who really wanted to be the tub carrier. Because he was really nice with me!

One day, I was at my cottage for the winter vacation. My parents were gone on a trip for the week so I was alone with my uncle.One morning, my uncle had a lot of work to do and that stressed him out. I decided that every morning, I would make a coffee for my uncle. He really appreciated it...

One morning, I woke up early and decided to do a RAK. My parents were not there and my grand mother was with us I was the only one awake so I did my family crepe. When they woke up they were so happy the jumped around the house. I did this because our parent or grand parent do a...

My big sister always gave me snacks without hesitating. She would give me Cheetos, Candy Canes for Christmas season and it wasnt even my present. So, one Saturday afternoon, I decided to go to the Dollarama near my place to buy some candy for her. She never really liked when we gave her sweets or surprises. But this time, my...

It was a very nice end of September Tuesday. I went to school by car, as usual, admiring the beautiful blue sky. In class, we usualy say hello to evryone at the begining of the day, but we didn't that day. Instead, I decided to say hello! I went to see evryone, making sure to give them all high-fives. It's...

During the summer time, at the metro, I saw a homeless man that wanted something to eat. So I asked my parents for some money to buy him some food. I went to the closest restaurant I saw, it was a Mcdonald's. It wasn't anything special, but I knew it would help. I bought him a burger with a side...

Monday I was going to look at the tv. I saw my mom did chores and I wanted to help my mom so I did the chores. I helped my mom because she does the chores every day and to thank her I did the chores.

I’d been suffering debilitating panic attacks for about 18 months. On the way back from work, I had a huge one, stumbled off the bus and lay down in the middle of the pavement in central London. Hundreds of people stepped over me as if I didn’t exist. I couldn’t move, couldn’t use my phone, couldn’t breathe. Suddenly, a very...

During pandemic, we discovered online fitness classes with an extraordinary coach, Eryn. She’s the kindest soul I know. She created a safe space where everybody is included, and we became a worldwide family (USA, Europe, South America, Asia…)
February 6 is her birthday and to celebrate her and her natural kindness, we decided that each of us would do an...

Today i went to the supermarket to buy groceries for my almost 87 year old mum.

Normally every week since a couple of years (she can't drive anymore) we went together so i can help carrying and keep an eye on her.

All the people who work there know her.

Today she was not with me so the lady behind...

One day when I was in 5th or 6th grade, I was leaving the school computer lab and noticed a random Lego Star Wars clone trooper minifigure outside the classroom. There was a small room filled with Lego in the back of the computer lab, which I assumed the figure came from. Assuming it was stolen, I was going to...

one day I had a job and it was walking dogs and one day I had to go somewhere were I didn't know my way around and I got lost and ended up in another neighborhood with the dog and the dog had to be back at a certain time and it was 2 min till he was supposed to...

Today a stranger knocked on my door holding a letter addressed to my house. This person explained it had been in their post. They lived quite a long way away from our street, but thinking there might have been important information inside had driven over to give it to me. Such a kind act.

Giving my friend a hug in school when she is having a bad day at school or at home

Just weeks before Christmas 2016, our youngest daughter, Keira, was diagnosed with an aggressive brainstem cancer. She was 10 years old. The next 6 months were grueling: she endured countless rounds of chemo and radiation, all the while knowing it was a grim prognosis. At the same time, her older brother and sister watched with fear and trepidation as our...

I have a past work friend that I still keep in contact with. She is so sweet and always has a kind word for everyone. Lately she’s had some health issues and hasn’t been able to get out. She does have some family that checks on her, and I keep in contact with her too. Before we had a snowstorm...

Being kind to others or strangers can make their day because you do not know what they are going through.

One day I saw this kid playing by himself because the other kids didn't want to play with him so I offered to play with him I saw how his eyes lit up with excitement and he was happy then...

When I did not go on a field trip I went to help a kindergarten teacher with her students, I helped her organize and clean up her classroom. When it was time for for their art teacher to come in I helped the art teacher by passing out the papers and telling the kids to sit down and be quiet....

there is a special teacher at my school who makes me feel included. I don't like leaving my classroom much but she makes an effort to come and talk to me.

When I was at primary school I tried to hold the door open for people and smile . (sky)

I carry preprinted business cards in my wallet. Rather than my my contact information each card says: "YOU ARE UNIQUE. YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO THE WORLD. THANK YOU FOR BEING WHO YOU ARE."

Years ago the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco still collected cash tolls and some of my friends and I would prepay the toll of the car behind us in addition to our own. One day when I did this as I was crossing the bridge an old beater car came up beside me with a family and lots of...

As a daily dog walker, I noticed trash scattered along my regular route. As an experiment, I placed a trash bag on the fence of the trail. By the end of the week, there was less trash and a full bag (which I collected and added to my household trash pickup). My dog and I have kept up this tradition...

My wife came up with the idea a few years ago to give delivery people a bottle of water. It's hard to do sometimes with Amazon because they're so quick but we succeed more often than fail. We also put a bottle of water in the mailbox. In the summer we put it in a plastic bag with ice.

She...

upon walking down the local high street i walked past a homeless man in a doorway , the temperature was only 4oC and i was cold but thought how cold he was , so went the local starbucks and walked back to him with a coffee , toasted cheese sandwich milk and sugar.
it felt good to do such a...