Kindness promotes well-being in relationships and communities. Research shows that kindness is the most important factor for satisfaction and stability in marriage, as it helps partners feel cared for, understood, and loved. When kindness is part of a school community, students feel safer, more engaged, and look forward to attending school. The greatest kindness we can show others during difficult times is to treat them with compassion, as we would small children, by interpreting their actions benevolently and forgivingly.

1. Kindness

2. https://www.google.ch/search?q=kindness

3. When kindness is part of a school community, kids feel
safer, more engaged, look forward to going to
school and have stronger relationships.
https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/blog/kindness-kindness-kindness-conversation-mccs-rick-weissbourd

4. Research shows that kindness is the most important
predictor of satisfaction and stability in a marriage.
Kindness makes each partner feel cared for,
understood, and validated - feel loved.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/happily-ever-after/372573/

5. The greatest kindness we can bestow on others in difficult
moments is to treat them as if they were children. We rarely
feel personally agitated or wounded by the bad behaviour of
small children. And the reason is that we don’t assign
negative motives or mean intentions to them. We reach
around for the most benevolent interpretations. We forgive.
http://www.thebookoflife.org/aphorisms-on-kindness/

6. Kind people know that great truths such as “I really like you”
sometimes have to pass into the mind of another person via
a smaller falsehood such as “your cake was delicious”.
http://www.thebookoflife.org/aphorisms-on-kindness/

7. Kind people do small things to show they care about
people. For example, a kind person asks someone
“how are you doing?” and really listens to his or her
answer.
https://hbr.org/2016/01/to-motivate-employees-do-3-things-well

8. http://www.mindful.org/be-kind-to-yourself-right-now/
To practice kindness, try to recall things you
have done out of good-heartedness.

9. Act of kindness:
Say “hello” to a person you meet on your way from a to b.
Adapted from
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/35-little-acts-of-kindness/