I spend a lot of time analyzing how children and adolescents enact kindness in schools (and in broader family and societal contexts) and there’s a tendency in kindness research toward emphasizing and ...

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In late August, Erin Alexander, 57, sat in the parking lot of a Target store in Fairfield, California, and wept. Her sister-in-law had recently died, and Alexander was having a hard day. A barista ...

One thing’s certain: kindness transforms lives. This World Kindness Week, we’re sharing stories of love, compassion and empathy through everyday acts of goodness. In one ...

Laurel Sims-Stewart, a counselor who works with children and adults, says when it comes to giving, our kids look to parents and caregivers not only to care for them, but as examples for relationships.

Join the Kindness movement! A Community Celebration of Kindness with the theme “See the Good. Be the Good. Go the Extra Mile” has culminated with broad proclamations of Kindness Week from Nov. 11-18.

"What Would Nicole Do?" I honestly had a women tell me she thought those words to herself as she watched a man try to pile an entire load of dumped lumber back into his pickup, in the rain, in the ...

Our society is crumbling about us, but good will and human decency have not been entirely eradicated. Recently at the Winn Dixie in Prairieville, my wife and I had finished shopping and were sitting ...

1ST AND BEYOND. THANK YOU, CHRIS. YOU KNOW, A RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS CAN GO A LONG WAY. AND WHY NOT SAY FAMILY WAS ON THE RECEIVING END OF SEVERAL? IT WAS ALL FOR A WOMAN WHO MADE IT TO SEA 50 WHEN ...