Is Kindness Taught Anymore?

How right you are, cremechese. My parents taught us to be kind since we were kids. And even now as adult(?), we still show kindness and politeness to everyone we meet or see. Hope my future kids will be the same as me. and hope I can be able to taught them they way my parents taught me.

It just makes the world a much better place to be kind to each other. When you are kind to someone it makes you both feel better and this needs to be taught to our children so that they will be kind as well. Why bash each other, when with that same energy one can be kind to each other and it feels so much better?

That was a nice post from your friend. I think in general most people deep do care and are kind. I think you are right about we should be thinking more about how does this sound before we speak or type. Even in myLot, we can hit the preview button first and edit what we want to say. I will jump on your wagon of kindness if it is ok with you.

That is a beautiful post Cremechese.I too feel that the greatest virtue that a person can have is a big heart.You have very good reason to be proud of your daughters. A person's greatness and wisdom can't touch as many souls as kindness can.A beautiful heart,to me,is much more attractive than a beautiful mind or face.It's the beauty of the soul that lasts us the longest and we should preserve it.I will consciously make an effort to try to be kind.Thanks for the topic.

I think you have a very kind heart and it's great that you notice and appreciate discussions and posts from others who promote kindness.I believe in the golden rule of treating others how you wish to be treated.I am very seldom unkind to someone,even when they deserve it.I have lost my temper before though and have hated myself for the way I behaved.I think it's impossible to be kind 100% of the time though.The worst is when you are unkind to those you love.That hurts very badly.I think it's great to do discussions on here with helpful information and kindness.I hope that we will see an abundance of that.Thanks for sharing this.
Stephanie

What a great topic. I feel that you are correct. We should all spend a lil more time being kinder to one another. No one recieves enough kindness as they should. This is definatley an importatn lesson to learn. Good job for your daughter. Already she will be ahead in life for learnig such an important lesson.=)

i do believe kindness is taught, but it can also be forgotten

Very thoughtful creme, I love myLot for this reason. People are kind and caring, but we do have the rude ones too, its only because they are there we appreciate the loving ones;o) Every place has to have some good and bad in it. It's nice to be grateful and kind than hateful and arrogant. Do good to others and it will soon come back to you. We all need to consciously express ourselves, because though this is a forum where strangers participate, our words can do more damage than we can possible imagine. The same works for good words, we may be making someone extremely happy! Thanks for the lovely discussion dear.

This discussion has really made me think. Why are some people NOT kind? Specifically, why am I such a b*tch? Now you say when we are angry and frustrated we take it out on those we love, but I have taken it out on my husband's friends. How did I become this way? My parents are/were kind and loving people who had many friends.

I would love to be kind to everyone I meet. I know the feeling would be wonderful to both myself and those I am kind to. So what prevents me from being like that?

Is it a result of being ignored by my siblings when I grew up, and they kind of still do. Is it a result of my abusive first marriage and my determination not be treated badly again? Is it because my baby's father abandoned us both leaving me to raise a baby from infancy to toddlerhood for two years on my own? Am I bitter?

Yet, I am involved in the church. I love all the people there. I feel a real part of a community with the church and the kids' school. When I jumped to assistance upon learning the girls' basketball tournament was a day sooner than anticipated, I ran over to the school with extra pairs of shoes and shorts for those girls who were not prepared. I went to the tournament. I drove some girls to the first tournament. Yet, when they purchased pizza for the girls no one offered me a piece. I must say I was offended and I told my daughter afterwards. Her response? "I know." So, I said to her, "Why didn't YOU offer me a piece of pizza?"

I don't hold this against the teachers. I will continue to help when I am needed because other parents are not as readily available as I am. Perhaps I feel bitter because MY kindness is not returned.

Interesting subject for a thesis.

Hi cremchese, I was reading all this and eating peanut butter, cause crazynurse made me hungry with her pie recipe, so hope I didn't get any PNbutter on this!:)
I thought this was a lovely dicussion, well said. I don't know what else I could say but that I agree with you wholeheartedly! I too have had my faith in humanity restored being on MyLOt, have ran into so many good hearted people. I try to teach kindness, even down to the Grandkids. I've been proud that my children are kind. Thanks!