It's just a simple sketch at first glance: a heart encircled by a thin ring of connected arrows. But in the eyes of 18 transitional kindergarten students at Tropical Elementary on Merritt Island, the ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — A kindergarten class at a Merritt Island elementary school recently designed a symbol for kindness. With the city and county supporting them, the students are now working to ...

It started on Merritt Island in 2018, a movement by a group of Tropical Elementary transitional kindergartners who wanted to send a nice, simple message: Be kind. Now, the kids' cool-to-be-kind ...

Today, World Kindness Day, is an opportunity for people across the world to focus on good deeds in their communities, reminding us that kindness is a positive force that connects us all. But how can ...

Whether it was writing thank you notes or delivering meals to shut-ins, Kimberly Ergul of Savannah understood the meaning of kindness from an early age from examples taught by both her gracious mother ...

After asking more than 3,000 students about kindness, I’ve learned a lot about just how children and adolescents understand and enact kindness, especially at school. The results might surprise parents ...

Those who know me even fairly well know I'm an easy mark when it comes to any effort involving three subjects I hold dear: kids, kindness and books. So when I heard earlier this year that Tropical ...