Kindness is a wonderful thing
You can't see it, you can't hear it
But it's the most wonderful thing to give.
It's so easy to be kind, and it doesn't cost you anything
So go on, be kind, it'll make you glow inside.
Peter Beardsley
Newcastle United

 Kindness is a gentle act of love and when given from the heart shows someone you truly care.

Mickey and Jan Rooney , Actor and Hollywood living legend.                        

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu

My definition of kindness is something you say or do for someone without expecting something in return.  Kindness is an act that should give you a warm feeling and make you proud of yourself for doing this act.  
Girl, 15
 

In my view kindness is something you can show by caring and showing love and appreciation for what they do for you.
Girl, 16
 
                                               
Kindness is sharing love and showing respect.
Girl, 15


Caring and sharing are acts of kindness.
Boy, 14
 

Kindness is when you do something good for people.
Girl, 14
 

Sharing your feelings with a friend is kindness as this shows you trust them.
Boy, 14
 

Kindness is something that describes me.
Girl, 15

Helping someone out when they are in need of help
Girl, 13
 

Being nice is an act of kindness.
Girl, 13
 

Kindness is love, being nice to someone and showing affection.
Boy, 12
 

Kindness is politeness and being generally nice.
Girl, 12
 

When a person is helpful.
Girl, 12
 

Kindness is being gentle.  For example, stroking a puppy.
Girl, 12

Kindness is sharing and showing affection for others.
Boy, 12

 Kindness is important in every person’s life. If you are kind other people will be the same to you. Kindness is helpful wherever you go. Lots of people were kind to me when I first came to this country. Now I can say that there are more kind people in England than in my country, which is Poland, because it is not always easy to find kind people there. I found kind and helpful people in my new English school very fast. They are not just teachers and staff, but also students. You can meet more people if you are kind. Eventually you will become a better person.

People feel different and better when they know that someone cares about them. It is great if you do good things for other people.  Showing kindness is one of those things.
You have to be kind to other people if you expect them to be kind to you. It is not easy to be a kind person. It is always good if you try.

One of the kind stories in my life could be my first visit in the capital city of Poland, Warsaw. I lived in Poznan and we wanted to go to Warsaw to see my older brother.
Poznan is a very charming city. In my city you can find lots of German people. They come there for holidays to see our magnificent museums, which in Poznan is a lot. There are many picturesque views when you go out of the city. We have so many charming, old buildings in the city centre that it takes a few days to see them all.
The weather in Poland is bright, beautiful and warm most of the year. It was summer time so the weather at that time in Poland was very hot. I had gone to Warsaw with my dad when I was 10 years old.  We had to get up very early in the morning and catch the train because we didn’t have a car at this time.

Cathedral in Poznan, Poland

We had already travelled for two hours and we had 1 hour and 20 minutes left. Travelling by the train is very boring.

On one of the stations a man came in and sat next to my dad. He looked very friendly and caring. This man was very gentle, likable and unselfish and he even told us a few things about his life. It was weird for us because this man didn’t know anything about us and he told us things which other people probably wouldn’t have told.

He had lived in Warsaw for a quite long time and we didn’t know Warsaw at all. My dad and I had always wanted to go to Warsaw because it is a very impressive, charming and glorious city. We had seen it few times on TV but we had never been there. When we arrived we did not know where we were going because we didn’t know the area surrounding the city centre. For us it was a huge problem.

Image of Warsaw

My usually obliging brother had been unable to come to meet us because he was working.  The kind and friendly man told us very clearly how we could get to my brother’s house. He even took the same bus, just to make sure that we wouldn’t get lost. We were very happy that this man helped us because we would never have found my brother’s house without his help.
Boy, 14

 I started doing yoga with Ms. Kathleen Cunningham, our French teacher, when I was 14.  That was Ms. Cunningham’s way of teaching French vocabulary. For me, it worked very effectively. The class imagined we were on a desert island that was like a beautiful, stress free paradise. We listened to calming pipe music and imagined what we could feel, see, hear, smell, touch and taste. This appealed to my style of learning and it worked very effectively for me.  It became part of my independent learning style.

Whilst relaxed, learning vocabulary was easier for me and I imagined myself listening to and speaking French on the deserted beach. After a good yoga session, I felt relaxed, chilled and ready to learn. I used to get a buzz better than any alcohol or drug out there.

I went to a revision conference to learn how to revise and I had previously done some yoga with Ms Cunningham.  Before that day, I had learned different positions and how to breathe more deeply. I discovered a newfound confidence. I have enjoyed yoga. I love being confident and healthy. I did not always feel that way and struggled a lot at school and had no confidence.

When I used the visualization method I could imagine myself in my “happy place”.  This was and is my favorite place in the world.  Yoga allows me to visualize it in my head.  It is a total stress free procedure that releases all my happy hormones.

Boy, 16