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 ...

World Kindness Day will be celebrated around the world on November 13, 2025. First introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, World Kindness Day offers an opportunity to highlight good deeds ...

As the school year wraps up, many children are keen for summer break. Summer means sunshine, and hopefully popsicles and lots of playtime. But for many families, summer also brings a combination of ...

Empathy is a powerful force, and sometimes it comes from the smallest voices. In a world that can often feel harsh, rushed, and disconnected, children have a unique gift for reminding us what real ...

As a parent of three, I've seen how social awareness helps us build strong connections and better understand the world around us. Social awareness is the ability to relate to other people and to ...

ARE RIGHT ON TIME FOR OUR NEXT LIVE GUEST. YES, TOMORROW IS NATIONAL RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS DAY, AND IN A U-N-C GREENSBORO ALUM AND FACULTY MEMBER IS IN THE SPIRIT. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF A RECENT ...

Little thoughtful gestures can make someone’s day. alashi/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images We gave 101 kids who were 4-17 years old and 99 adults who were visiting a museum in Chicago an ...

From expressing gratitude to surprising someone with a mug of hot chocolate on a cold day, adults tend to underestimate how positively others will respond to their random acts of kindness. I’m a ...