Kindness amongst children…
Today on the train when I got on in Shinjuku I watched three friends (2 girls, 1 boy) from Keio Elementary school ( Hard to get into private school!) hop on and sit down although as one of the girls went to sit down her seat was taken by someone else so she was standing. Almost immediately the young boy stood up and offered his seat to his female friend.
These kids were about seven. I couldn`t believe that a boy of that age would know to offer his seat to a girl!
In the kindergarten we taught the boys in our class (after quite a few pushing and running in the hallway incidents!) that if they were big strong boys that they should let girls go first! It took them a little while to get the hang of it and sometimes they still needed to be reminded but they eventually got it! Some of the mothers even mentioned that they had started to be more cooperative at home and let their sisters do things first!
Whoever that little boys parents or teachers are they are doing a great job of raising such a charming, polite little boy!
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Awww that is so cute!!!!
That is a step in the right direction!
I’ve only been offered a seat on the bus once in my life. I had to fight the urge to ask the boy to marry me the whole ride!
that’s really cute! but maybe the boy knew the girl would beat the shit out of him if he didn’t give her the seat, or something!
awwwww so gorgeous. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go back to the good old days of our grandparents where people actually cared about one another?
I loved this post, sorry a bit late but it made me wanna comment anyway. : ) I thought it was awesome that the little boy was so kind to do that and I loved that you were the cool kind of person to notice an act of kindness like that and blog about it, right on. : ) All I can say is, being a mom of 2 boys, it’s never too early to teach our young boys/kids to have good manners, be polite, always say “please and thank you” and the seat giving was absolutely awesome!!! I appluad his parents because they obvioulsy are doing things right! : )