I Choose Kindness.
The Story
This year I have 11 girls in my class. As we all know girls have a hard time meshing in large groups. Cliques form, feelings get hurt and friendships are tested. Sometimes a "kid intervention" is needed, and that is exactly what we did today.
Kindness is a difficult thing to choose but we "whole heartedly" choose it this year.
The Problem
As the story goes, girls will be girls. We can be so conniving, mean, hurtful and disrespectful toward each other, but why? What is the point of it. If a person is your friend, why would you want to intentionally hurt them? Why do you feel the need to talk about them behind their backs or not stand up for them when someone is wronging them? This is a question I brought to my students attention today. Words hurt and can never be fully erased. What you say and how you say something speaks volumes, even if you don't think it does. Unfortunately, we never stop dealing with it and even as adults need to be reminded to be kind.
The Solution
"She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." Proverbs 31:26
"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive." Colossians 3:12-13
Here is our little project the girls of the class did, perfect way to learn about love. (Thanks Tami!)
Step one: Cut out a heart on plain white paper.
Step two: On one side of the heart write mean words people say to you.
On the other side of the heart write the mean way we say things.
Step three: Erase the heart.
The words people say to us, about us or that we say to others never fully get "erased" from our hearts. They still leave a mark.
Step four: Hold out your heart in two hands, when we have family and friends that say kind words to us, our heart is clean and full.
Step five: Crumple your heart and re open it.
When people say hurtful things to us it crushes our heart and leaves lines of hurt.
Step six: "I vow to choose kindness"
We must, as adults, teach children kindness because there isn't much of it left in this world.
Be an example of what God expects of us, the children will follow.
Fashion Fun!
I was able to enjoy a WONDERFUL day in Cleveland with my sister and two nieces. We went to lunch and then had amazing box seats to watch Annie. She a great experience.
Ran into some wonderful, long lost friends! Really enjoyed seeing these ladies! Yes, they are twins :)
Here I wore some TJMaxx leggings, boot socks from Maurices, boots from Bass & Co. and a new BKE shirt from the Buckle.
My sister invited Matt and I to join her and her husband in her company seats at the Cavs game. We had the best time with some great company!
This is a satin shirt I thrifted last year! I paired it with some jeggings and calf high heeled boots.
Matt and I went to Florida for a long weekend to visit his mom and step dad and we thoroughly enjoyed the sun, water and sand. I stayed comfortable the whole trip! Here I have on my jeggings, a shirt from Old Navy I got on sale last year for $3 and a cardi from j.crew. Matt is a walking advertisement for Under Armor, but man is he cute!
Be a Blessing!
Miss Goff
