Kindness is. . .
We invited our good friends the Kelsons over for family night. The lesson was on how Jesus taught us to be kind and love others. I shared a story during the lesson about Jesus healing a blind man. The lesson ended with a paper puzzle covering a picture of Jesus. The kids were required to pick up a puzzle piece and tell one way they can be kind. The responses were not what I expected. Here are the ones I remember:
"not hitting"
"not punching or kicking"
"not poking"
"not making someone blind" by Isaac. I tried to get him to come up with something you can do instead of something that you can avoid doing by saying "what if a friend was coming over? Can you think of one thing you could do to be kind to your friend?" His response: "not make my friend blind."
Not exactly what I planned to teach about kindness, but an interesting view of the 4-year-old-mind.