Kindness at Home

Have each member of your family choose someone outside the family who has made a positive difference in his or her life. Write short thank-you notes, and mail the letters together.
Bake cookies together, and take them to a neighbor who needs a lift.
Pitch in and clean up the yard of a neighbor who is ill, has had surgery recently, or has had a family emergency.
Volunteer with your children to help at a soup kitchen.
Leave a bouquet of flowers on a neighbor's front step anonymously.
Start a Family Kindness Journal, about kind acts both given and received, and create a family scrapbook. If you have photos, include them with the stories. As years go by and as your children grow, all of you can review the many ways that kindness has touched your family.s life.
As a house-warming gift for a new neighbor, ask others to pick their favorite quote to write in a nice book.
Clean up litter on a stretch of road in your neighborhood.
Surprise your wife/husband with breakfast in bed.
Include a note or joke in your child or spouse.s lunchbox.
Call your mom just to say, .Hello..
When you.re out of town, have your friend drop off a home-cooked meal for your wife.
Collect inspiring quotes and write them in a nice journal to give them as gifts to your family members.
Place a flower in your neighbors. newspaper without them seeing it.
Arrange a conference call for the entire family.