There Are Many Ways to Show Kindness — How Do You Show Yours?

There Are Many Ways to Show Kindness — How Do You Show Yours?

Kindness doesn't have to be a grand gesture. Sometimes it's the smallest things that matter most.

How do you show kindness? Some ideas to get you thinking:

• Show some love to your pet

• Include a lonely friend in your friendship group

• Hold a door open for someone

• Say thank you — and mean it

• Sit and listen to an older person talk

I have to keep reminding myself that it's the small acts of kindness that count. They add up.

In The Kindness Community, one of my favourite characters is the Kindness Expert — someone who talks beautifully about kindness but doesn't always practise it. Sound familiar? I think we've all been there.

It raises a question worth sitting with: if you believe kindness is important, how were you kind recently?

And it doesn't stop there. What else do you believe in — and are you living it? If you care about the planet, can you think of a recent moment when you picked up rubbish, or chose to reduce your plastic use? There's something powerful about closing the gap between what we say we value and how we actually live day to day.

You can find The Kindness Community on Amazon — a gentle but thought-provoking story for families who believe that how we treat each other matters.