Spread a little kindness
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Bethel Park High School head football coach
Brian DeLallo wrote: "Due to expected severe weather, Monday’s weightlifting workout has been cancelled. Find an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel their driveway. Don’t accept any money - that’s our Monday workout."
DeLallo said that having the football team shovel people’s driveways is something that his predecessor, former head coach Jeff Metheny, started the tradition more 20 years ago.
Bethel Park High School football players David Shelpman, 16, and Aidan Campbell, 17, were among about 40 athletes who shoveled snow on Monday, according to DeLallo.
Campbell shoveled four driveways with Shelpman, who did another two driveways on his own. Shelpman shoveled for about seven hours, while Campbell shoveled for about five.
Once he was done shoveling driveways, Shelpman said he and his mom volunteered at a spaghetti dinner for homeless veterans.
The football players didn’t just shovel driveways on Monday. They also shoveled more driveways together on Tuesday.
Brian DeLallo wrote: "Due to expected severe weather, Monday’s weightlifting workout has been cancelled. Find an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel their driveway. Don’t accept any money - that’s our Monday workout."
DeLallo said that having the football team shovel people’s driveways is something that his predecessor, former head coach Jeff Metheny, started the tradition more 20 years ago.
Bethel Park High School football players David Shelpman, 16, and Aidan Campbell, 17, were among about 40 athletes who shoveled snow on Monday, according to DeLallo.
Campbell shoveled four driveways with Shelpman, who did another two driveways on his own. Shelpman shoveled for about seven hours, while Campbell shoveled for about five.
Once he was done shoveling driveways, Shelpman said he and his mom volunteered at a spaghetti dinner for homeless veterans.
The football players didn’t just shovel driveways on Monday. They also shoveled more driveways together on Tuesday.
Small acts of kindness
Small acts of kindness can go a long way in making the world a better place. Think about a time when someone did something unexpected for you that brightened your day. Weren’t you a nicer person for the rest of the day because of that?
I’m willing to bet that anyone who receives an act of kindness passes it on in some way, even if it’s just by being in a better mood, and therefore treating the people around them with more kindness than usual.
Send someone a kind message. Give a small gift. Make something for someone. Tell someone how much they mean to you. There are so many ways to brighten someone’s day.
Small acts of kindness can go a long way in making the world a better place. Think about a time when someone did something unexpected for you that brightened your day. Weren’t you a nicer person for the rest of the day because of that?
I’m willing to bet that anyone who receives an act of kindness passes it on in some way, even if it’s just by being in a better mood, and therefore treating the people around them with more kindness than usual.
Send someone a kind message. Give a small gift. Make something for someone. Tell someone how much they mean to you. There are so many ways to brighten someone’s day.
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless." ~Mother Teresa
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not." ~Dr Seuss
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world." ~Anne Frank
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not." ~Dr Seuss
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world." ~Anne Frank
Be an encourager
"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
A survey asked mothers to keep track of how many times they made both negative and positive comments to their children. The surveyed mothers admitted that they criticized at least ten times for every time they said something favorable.
Another survey taken in one city's schools found that the teachers were negative seventy-five percent of the time.
This study concluded that it takes four positive statements to a child from a parent or teacher to offset the effects of one negative statement.
"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
A survey asked mothers to keep track of how many times they made both negative and positive comments to their children. The surveyed mothers admitted that they criticized at least ten times for every time they said something favorable.
Another survey taken in one city's schools found that the teachers were negative seventy-five percent of the time.
This study concluded that it takes four positive statements to a child from a parent or teacher to offset the effects of one negative statement.