Kids Helping Others..Keeping An Eye Out

This class is over but with the help of the kids and Citizen Schools, we have created a curriculum around kindness that hopefully other teachers and kids can take advantage of. My goal will be to make the curriculum and any future classes more rewarding and impactful for the kids. And in the meantime, the need for more kindness and good deeds is of course not. One of the goals of the site will be to continue to point out acts of kindness and good deeds by kids (young and old). To create an ever growing list so that other kids can see what others are up to and join in. Please join me....

1) Each year my wife and I sponsor a x-mas eve dinner at the Pine Street Inn in downtown Boston which houses over 700 homeless men and women. We look for volunteers to help us serve the meal each year. This year amongst the 10 volunteers who joined us, there was 1 college freshman and 1 high school sophomore, both from Weston MA, who helped us serve the meal. Another young man who is the son of an employee of the shelter was providing entertainment for the men during the meal by playing the saxophone (this is the 2nd year he has done this and the men seem to absolutely love it). Do you play an instrument? Can you volunteer to play for a group of people who would really appreciate your music and company?
2) doesn't matter how old/young you are...kids of all ages can find ways (and parents, teachers can find ways to involve them). my son's preschool teacher for her 3 and 4 year olds) has helped the kids make a "giving box" into which they were told to collect mittens, hats and shoes for needy families.