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| Email Your Story to ParentStory@OneMillionAOK.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov 2nd, 2007 - Stephanie V. On Halloween my daughter asked if everyone in the world goes trick-or-treating. As I explained the difference of American Holidays and holidays/celebrations in other countries she looked rather puzzled and asked, “Well, why wouldn’t anybody want Free candy?” As I further explained the difference, she interrupted me and asked, “Do you think Mike is trick-or-treating right now?” Mike is my older son. . . he is currently stationed in Iraq. I told her that he is probably not trick or treating, “Well, do the kids in Iraq go trick-or-treating?”. . . I must remind you that my daughter is 6 years old, anything she thinks just comes right out. I told her that there are some people in the world that can not afford treats and how we are very lucky to live in a society and community that will give out candy for free. At that point she said, “Well, can we send candy to Mike.” – I looked puzzled “I bet I can get a whole bunch of candy this year with my costume, and then we can send the candy to Mike and he can give it to all of the children.” I started to cry. Nov. 1st, 2007 - Frank Okay – what I am about to write, is not like my two sons, they did this all on their own – shocking! We live just around the street from the school. And on Halloween night we take them trick-or-treating for about 2 hours. One hour into trick-or-treating both of them pull out an empty trick or treat bag. As they were doing this, they looked at me with two large smiles knowing that I was wondering what they were doing. When I finally got to a point to ask them, they said they were collecting candy for our next door neighbor. . . he’s 13 years old and in a wheel chair. The funny thing is, I think they had more fun trick-or-treating for someone else, than they did themselves. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 30th, 2007 - Carol I have a household full of all boys (yes, including my husband) – and when it comes to TV time, it is a constant battle between the football, cartoons, MTV, . . .you name it. Today, my youngest son was walking around with the remote in his pocket and I asked him, “What are you doing with the remote control in your pocket.” He immediately exclaimed, “Well, I don’t want anyone else to get it because today I am going to let dad watch what ever he wants, and I am going to get him anything he needs.” This put a smile on my face, and you know what, when he told his brothers what he was doing, it soon became a whole family event/surprise for my husband. He couldn’t help but smile the whole rest of the night. It was a true kindness filled evening in our household. And I noticed when he went to bed, he had his journal next to his backpack that read, “I let my dad watch what ever he wanted on TV.” – TOO CUTE! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct. 27th, 2007 - Kelly S. Today we where in a hurry and went through the drive-thru at Burger King. Sundays are “Allowance Day”. As we where going through, my oldest son, who goes to Sparks Middle, asked how much the person’s bill was behind us, it was about $10.00. They all put a small amount of their allowance together to purchase their meal. The smiles on my children’s faces where priceless, even the employee had a great big smile in anticipation of bringing good news to the next customer. After we started pulling away, they rolled down the window and started waiving and smiling at the person behind us. . . they probably thought we where a little weird, but little did they know. This was a true Random Act of Kindness that warmed my heart to see my children thinking of it all on their own! - Kelly S. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct. 26th, 2007 - Anonymous I am a parent volunteer at Alyce Taylor. Luckily I was volunteering on the day of your event, and I must say Wow. Random acts of kindness is something that my husband and I try to teach our children at home. I have one child in 1st grade and another child in 5th grade. On the car ride home they where arguing over who was going to document more Random Acts of kindness. . . Normally, I would not tolerate any arguing between the two of them, but in this case, I couldn’t help but smile. When we got home, both me and my husband where treated like kings, dishes done, clean rooms, please and thank you’s . . . each one filled out an entire journal in the first day, I can only hope this carries on throughout the entire two weeks. Thank you so much for bringing your program into our school, it has already had amazing results. -anonymous --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Parents, if you have a story or comment you would like to share - please email it to ParentStory@OneMillionAOK.com)
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