Why 600 Kids in Tennessee Are Writing Inspiring Notes (and Hashtags!) on Rocks and Placing Them All Over Town
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This article is one in a series at 蜜桃影视 that profiles the heroes, victories, success stories, and random acts of kindness to be found at schools all across America. Read more of our recent inspiring profiles at The74million.org/series/inspiring.
Sometimes rocking kindness is as easy as a bit of paint and some smooth stones.
To mark the start of the school year, Carpenters Elementary School, in Maryville, Tennessee, which has made kindness a touchstone, took a cue from the Kindness Rocks Project and had all 600 students paint words of inspiration and caring on rocks that will be distributed all around their Blount County community.
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To see how far the children鈥檚 messages of kindness will spread throughout the fall, each stone bears the hashtag #CESKindnessRocks, so anyone who finds one can take a picture and share the love, reports .
The Carpenters Elementary School students鈥� effort is part of a worldwide movement started by a Massachusetts mom, Megan Murphy, who was hoping to create moments of encouragement for fellow beachcombers on Cape Cod.
What started on the beach has moved to parks, hospital grounds, and schools nationally and internationally.
In Ontario, Canada, middle school students used the rocks to help punctuate a discussion on kindness this past spring. 鈥淲e realized how a big gesture isn鈥檛 the only form of compassion and kindness, in fact it鈥檚 the little things that really make a difference in people鈥檚 lives,鈥� wrote an eighth-grader at .
Morrison Elementary School in Massachusetts even brought Murphy in to lead a springtime assembly to help kick off a Kindness Rocks effort there.
鈥淭his isn’t about me. The project is about people,鈥� Murphy told . 鈥淚t鈥檚 about after people find a rock and they have that feeling about the rock and realize there鈥檚 another human being who actually gets them. They realize they are not alone in this world.鈥�
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Tim Newcomb is a sports, education, and pop culture writer based out of Washington state. He is the author of the book 鈥淪TEM in Sports: Engineering,鈥� published by Mason Crest, and a father to three girls.
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