School is that temple where a human learns a lot of things and turns into a proper good citizen who is responsible and well aware of his/her duties. A child learns a lot of good things in life, few of them are friendship, love, affection, team building, cooperation etc. Even then we have a lot of emotional disbalance found in the students and children. Students have to go through a lot in their academic life and even then, they score good marks and grades in the school. But really does anybody feel concerned about their emotional well being or does anybody think of inducing some emotional attributes? so that the child can be emotionally very strong and can practice such good human emotions in daily life. Kindness is one of those best human emotions which soothe the soul of a human being every time it emerges. Kindness has its own nature of spreading calm and satisfaction to the soul. It’s one of those best feelings which soothes the person who shows it as well as the person who receives it. Both feel a moment of self-satisfaction while having kindness. Among various methods of learning the most popular and cheerful learning is hybrid learning. Even in this Hybrid Learning also many teachers often teach the importance of being kind or the effect of kindness in a student’s life. Children and kids don’t learn kindness just by reading about it, instead they learn best about it when they practice it because the best feeling which comes out of kindness is when one goes through it. ERP for schools also recommends teaching about kindness in classes and also ERP for schools mentions teachings about Lord Buddha to explain kindness among students. So, based upon above enumerated facts, lets understand the benefits of teaching kindness in schools:
- The best feeling among the students is when they show such emotions which can make them feel good in return. Kindness is one of those human emotions. There are several ways when students can practice kindness. For example, during lunch time if a student can’t bring lunch regularly then instead of being without lunch all the other students should show an act of kindness by sharing their lunch with him, as it is also taught in schools that “sharing is caring”. This act of kindness will definitely make students feel satisfied and happy.
- It is seen that whenever people show some act of kindness, they get relief out of any stressful condition in the mind. People often being tangled in emotional traps start to live in depression and anxiety. Kindness provides a sense of belongingness and higher self-esteem. Kindness is that emotion which helps to form connections with others and is taken as a stronger factor to make people happy and cheerful.
- Among all the students it is necessary that they should have respect for some basic emotions such as love and affection. Hence, students these days are made to do some social activities during which they keep on helping people in need under their social work mission and by helping and by receiving the help they get the feeling of gratitude. Gratitude is that emotion which when generated in the heart of a person when he or she is helped in a very tough situation and gratitude makes the heart and mind serene due to which a student becomes able to understand the feeling of ” World is one family”.
- There are a lot of benefits of practicing kindness which approved by medical science also that when students practice kindness or any such soothing emotion then a hormone called oxytocin gets emitted in the body due to which controls the blood pressure and due to this process, the person or student who is feeling kindness feels very relaxed and calm and most importantly very much satisfied. All these situations make one happier than ever.
- Kindness is such a magical behaviour that when a student practices it in the school then he or she wins the heart of everyone, even the worst students of the class or the robust teacher in faculty. For example, if some bad students are in the habit of bullying other weak students and even after bullying by such bad students if a student helps them in their worst phase of life then this act of kindness wins the heart of bad students and they will stop bullying being burdened under the feeling of gratitude.