Why Teaching Kindness in Schools Is Essential to Reduce Bullying
"Kindness changes the brain by the experience of kindness. Children and adolescents do not learn kindness by only thinking about it and talking about it. Kindness is best learned by feeling it so that they can reproduce it."
- Patty O'Grady
Ideas like random acts of kindness have become more popular lately but it extend mostly to coffee shop drive throughs. Some benefits have been suggested, you can read more here but I'll summarize below:
"Kindness changes the brain by the experience of kindness. Children and adolescents do not learn kindness by only thinking about it and talking about it. Kindness is best learned by feeling it so that they can reproduce it."
- Patty O'Grady
Ideas like random acts of kindness have become more popular lately but it extend mostly to coffee shop drive throughs. Some benefits have been suggested, you can read more here but I'll summarize below:
- Happy, caring children
- Increased peer acceptance
- Greater sense of belonging and improved self-esteem
- Improved health and less stress
- Increased feelings of gratitude
- Better concentration and improved results
- Reduced depression
- Less bullying