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MINDFULNESS KINDNESS Leads to Peace BY: ELLA CADY 5th grade, Pine Knob Elementary Clarkston Schools What is kindness? Kindness, like peace, can be really hard to find these days. People think kindness is not important, but one act of kindness can make someone's entire day and lead to friendships and understanding. Kindness can means different things to different people. Some people believe that kindness is about being nice to people and not judging. Others think kindness means helping people in different ways. I believe it is about both caring and acceptance. Kindness creates confidence because if someone says something nice about you, you will feel appreciated and confident. That compliment makes you feel good about yourself and the world around you. Kindness not only helps you, but it helps others feel good about themselves, too. When people feel good with each other, there is peace. Kind words cost nothing; yet they accomplish many things. Be kind! STRONG AND KIND BY: MIKAYLA ROGER 5th grade, Blanche Sims Elementary, Lake Orion Schools When people treat other people poorly because they look differently or believe in different things, our world doesn’t know peace. Years ago, people with light skin treated people with dark skin like a lopsided, cracked lollipop. They treated them like they were different from everyone else, like they were worse than them. That wasn’t true. Rosa Parks had dark skin, and she was tired of being treated poorly. One day she sat on a bus, when the driver and a man with light skin came to her. “This man needs your seat,” the driver said. They thought light skinned people should get better seating on the bus. “No!” Rosa said, arguing that she was not in a seat reserved for whites. When Mrs. Parks defied this order, the police came and took her away. On that day she stood up for herself and people like her. She took a stand. Ruby Bridges was a young girl who became the first dark skinned student to attend a school for kids with light skin as part of a special program. Judge ordered that she should go to this school. Two men walked in with her into the school because light skinned people were angry and screamed at her. They did not want her coming to their school. A crowd of people stood yelling, but Ruby walked on and did not say a word. Every day there would be someone saying bad things to her. One day while walking into the school, Ruby stopped. Her teacher saw her out the window. “What is she doing?” Ruby’s teacher thought. When Ruby finally came into the school, her teacher asked, “Why did you stop?” “I was praying for those people in the crowd,” Ruby replied. Ruby did the right thing. She prayed for those people who were unkind to her and did not say anything to them. Does it matter if one’s skin is dark or light? Does it matter how one looks? We all are people. Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges stayed strong and showed kindness even though people were mean to them. World needs people who can stay strong even when it is hard and stay kind even when people are cruel. Be a Rosa. Be a Ruby. 16 www.KidsStandard.org Publication INC.
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Page 5 and 6: POEMS An Image Of Peace BY: EMILY V
Page 7 and 8: INTERVIEW It’s Not About Me; It
Page 9 and 10: ART Haley Campbell, 4th Grade, Inde
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Page 15: We Can Change the World BY: MALAYA
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