SMILE It’s Kindness Day – April 21st, 2016

April 15, 2016/ by Community Kindness Movement/ in Blog Postings, Uncategorized/ Comments Off

April’s Kindness Day is Thursday, April 21st, 2016

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April Kindness Theme
“SMILE – PASS IT ON”!
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The SMILE theme goes along well with the City of Pocatello, the Smile Capital. The Smile Ordinance was passed by Mayor George Phillips, in 1948. The Smile Ordnance made it illegal not to SMILE in Pocatello. To continue on this kind gesture tradition, Kindness Day will be “Smile Day”! Join the universal language of the smile by smiling and making others smile!

Kindness is contagious.

Can kindness really illicit change, and how?

Yes, because kindness is contagious. Acts of kindness have a positive three-way effect:

There’s the positive effect on the recipient, and the positive effect on you —you might find yourself experiencing the positive emotion of the ‘helper’s high.’ But perhaps the biggest effect of all will be on a passer-by who just happens to witness the act

When we’re kind, we inspire others to be kind, and it actually creates a ripple effect that spreads outwards to our friends’ friends’ friends — to three degrees of separation. Just as a pebble creates waves when it is dropped in a pond, so acts of kindness ripple outwards, touching others’ lives and inspiring kindness everywhere the wave goes.

A recent scientific study reported than an anonymous 28-year-old person walked into a clinic and donated a kidney. It set off a “pay it forward” type ripple effect where the spouses or other family members of recipients of a kidney donated one of theirs to someone else in need. The “domino effect,” as it was called in the New England Journal of Medicine report, spanned the length and breadth of the United States of America, where 10 people received a new kidney as a consequence of that anonymous donor.

School Kindness Day SMILE Planning Ideas

This is a mini kindness video to help celebrate SMILE Day. Please share with your teachers.

They can show this video the first 5 minutes of class on their smart boards.

SCHOOL KINDNESS DAY IDEA:

You will need (6) Yellow Poster Boards. Spell out “S – M – I – L – E” on the first (5) boards. On the (6th) board write “It’s Kindness Day!”. We made (2) sets for our school and having students hold them, wearing their Kindness T-shirts. They will display these as students and faculty arrive for school. You can also do this at the end of the school day. For this Kindness Day task, your School Principal can select students who have shown examples in being “world changers” or “kindness leaders” in your school. Have a wonderful Kindness Day and remember to remind your students to wear their Yellow Kindness T-Shirts or Yellow, but most importantly, their SMILE!