Share stories of your DCs kindness with the Clangers - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[EmmaMumsnet]

The Clangers are launching their #clangersforkindness campaign which encourages kids and parents to demonstrate kindness every day, just like the Clangers do on the little blue planet. From giving a hug to helping a friend in need, there are many ways to spread kindness. For the launch of this new campaign, the Clangers would love to hear about times your DCs have been kind.

“Clangers are always kind – to each other and everyone else they meet. But what about the people who live on our little blue planet? Are they kind like the Clangers? As Aesop said ‘No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.’ We’re encouraging people to talk about the ‘kindness stars’ in their life – tagging people who they think are kind and talking about what they do, and encouraging people to spread kindness and be a kindness star themselves. So tell us about your ‘kindness stars’ and the wonderful things they have said and done.”

Check out the video below to see what children think about kindness:

So please tell us about the lovely things your DCs have said and done, however small and whatever their age. What random acts of kindness have they done that have made your day or made you smile? Did your toddler share their toys or food? Did a moody teenager show their thanks? Did your DC help out with chores or say something kind to a family member?

However big or small their act of kindness, share it below and you will be entered into a prize draw where one Mumsnetter will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks, good luck with the prize draw and spread kindness!

MNHQ

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My 2 year old Dd is a very sensitive little person. 7 month old dd2 has been really unwell this week with a chest infection and generally been a very unhappy baby.

2 year old dd has been by her side the whole time - stroking her head, singing her nursery rhymes and cuddling her very gently. She has shown genuine concern and love with her little sister which has made my heart melt!

My DD is 2 and has become very empathetic - when she hears another little child crying she'll say "Oh no, someone sad, can I cuddle them better?". She's started to actively want to share her toys (well some of the time anyway!) to make people happy. I love seeing the little acts of kindness.

DD1 is six. She'd been to a pizza making party and we were walking back to the car with her pizza in a box and a large slice of birthday cake, both of which she was excited to tuck into.

We went to go through an underpass and saw a young girl sitting there, asking for spare change. DD asked why she wanted money and I explained she was probably hungry.

She looked thoughtful for a minute, then took her entire stash of party food over and gave it to the girl. No prompting, never seen anything like it. Girl was over the moon.

She's a good little soul is DD, I'm very proud of her kind heart.

My DD is only 1 but if she sees that someone is upset she will give them cuddles and kisses to make them feel better. She also likes to make sure no one is thirsty by taking them sippy cups of water.

My dd offered me one of her sweets today - only a small thing but I was touched!

On my birthday this year my daughter wrapped me up her Drumstick lolly - cause 'she knows I love them and no one ever buys grown up lollies' and my son gave me his £2.25 weekly pocket money so I could treat myself to a coffee when I went to the supermarket doing the shopping. Really tiny, inexpensive things - but they both made me cry cause they'd put the thought into it!

I have always felt lucky to have generally kind and loving children. However my middle daughter sometimes really surprises me. She has ADHD and, although she manages fairly well on a daily basis, she does have her moments, especially with her younger sister, who can be very annoying. Last weekend, a couple of Sunday School leaders took a small group up to London to a day of worship for children and young people. There was a McDonalds near the venue, although not a great deal else. One of the leaders hadn't taken any lunch with him and so my daughter insisted that he have her wrap and packet of crisps and then she spent the money I had given her to spend on herself buying a Happy Meal to eat. As she doesn't really like McDonalds, I thought she was very kind, especially when she came home and gave the toy to her younger sister.

My ds had been saving his pocket money for ages to buy a nerf gun. Ferreting all pennies away. He decided to give it all to the hospice where his sister died instead after we'd been talking about how much it costs to run the place and give the care needed. I was so proud of him

My daughter is exceptionally kind and i thought she was the only one so it has been such a beautiful time for me to read about all the other lovely kind children mentioned here. I feel very humbled right now. :-)

I'd like to share with you some of my daughter's kindness too:

To accompany the always holding doors, letting other people go first, donating her pocket money, sorting through old toys and books in the run up to Christmas to be donated (she saw an ad one year and has decided to keep this going) etc

When my daughter was in year 1 (so aged about 5 years), one of her best friends was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It was a terrifying time for for her parents, the uncertainty of her condition meant that she wasn't always in school but whenever she was my daughter made sure she played with her as much as could and everyday she would tell her how beautiful she was. Her friend had gone bald from chemotherapy but my daughter didn't ever see that and would always come home telling me how beautiful her friend was. When her friend was finally given the all clear and her hair had grown back my daughter bought her all manner of hair accessories to use for her birthday- i swear there must have been enough in there for everyday that she had been without hair. It was a truly beautiful gesture. It might seem like a small thing but it meant so much to the two of them.

The second act of kindness (although actually before the previous one above) was when my Uncle Steve died, i had to help with the funeral, my daughter was in reception and ended up coming with me as it was far away. Sadly the funeral was planned for the day before her birthday but she kept herself composed about not having a real birthday. She was just four years old.

We sat in the funeral car behind my Uncle's coffin. My Mum, my Grandad, My daughter and myself in a row.

There was a moment sat there when I realised that my beautiful little girl wasn’t a big girl, that she was in fact a very small incomplete person, yet to be completely moulded. And yet, it was she who impressed me the most with her composure and stopped my heart from entirely breaking.

Holding my hand, in the gentle way she does, I observed her studying my Grandad. It was hard for him to show his emotions and he avoided doing so when he could, despite it all probably hitting him harder than anyone realised. As she looked from me to him, from my hand in which she clung to she gently to his empty ones, she reached out her little hand and picked up his. This small act, so mature for her age was probably the sweetest thing I have ever seen.

At times when the tears flowed this little girl, my shining star, would lift up my hand to her lips and softly kiss it to reassure me that the tears would once again stop, for how ever short a time.

It was one of the saddest times of my life and of my Grandad's life- burying his child but her maturity and kindness really shone through that day.

DS is not yet three but whenever one of us gets ill, has a scrape, or is bit sad, he tries to console us and make it better. Last week his grandmother was struggling to stand up from an armchair and explained to him that her knees are old and aching. DS immediately went over to caress her knees and then kissed them to make it better!

He was two and a half when a kid of around four was upset and scared at the playground, on the verge of crying. The kid's bigger brother was being attacked verbally (but in a fairly menacing way) by a group of others. DS offered the four-year-old looking kid to try his scooter, in order to cheer him up - a big thing as he was otherwise very possessive of it. (I intervened with the bigger kids to stop the escalation.)

My son is only 17 months so doesn't have a fantastic understanding of kindness yet! However he's always very gentle and loving towards my elderly Gran, full of kisses and smiles and he seems to be more careful about things like swinging his arms about and jumping around, as though he knows to be gentle with her He absolutely adores the Clangers!

My 3yo dd was very upset last month when she realised that she didn't have enough pocket money to buy the DVD she so desperately wanted.

Without hesitation her 5yo sister offered to buy it for her, leaving her with nothing left to spend on herself.

Our son has a speech delay and social interaction difficulties and finds it hard to mix with other children. We were at the local park and another little boy fell over and started crying - totally out of the blue our son went over to him and gave him the biggest hug and said "are you ok"

It almost reduced me to tears.

I was really ill in bed (hyperemesis), my (now Ex) Husband was being really nasty to me, he didn't like me being ill. I was weak, and crying. My little boy, then 2.5 trotted jnto his bedroom and got his favourite teddy. He came back and spoke really gently, "this is a doctor teddy Mummy, if you cuddle it you will feel better".

My Dd aged 6 always tries to look after her nan when we see her. She says 'are you ok nanny can you manage that' whenever she sees my mum walking with her stick or carrying something. She loves to make sure she is ok.

When my son was little 3yr ish, being all independent he insisted on going down the stairs by himself, one time I was following him and I fell, my feet came directly out in front of me and hit him straight in the middle of his back sending him flying into the wall at the bottom of the stairs, I followed in a heap, landing in a pile at the bottom, we were both hurt and crying, my son got up, put his arms around me and through his tears said "you'll be alright mummy, I'll look after you"

Bless his little cotton socks, its 20 plus years since, I've never forgotten & I've never let anyone go in front of me going down the stairs since.

My DS was sports captain in y6 and his house won the cup/ trophy on sports day. DS was carrying the cup and the whole house was doing a celebratory lap of honour. DS could have run off as fast as he could at the front of them all but he held right back instead and waited for a child that struggled to run (he didn't know him very well) so they could both hold the cup together and walk the lap of honour.

The day after the EU referendum, 4yr old DD and I were at a soft play centre. I was reading the news and feeling upset about the nasty incidents of racial abuse cropping up around the country in the wake of the result. I looked around for DD, and saw her sitting down next to a little Chinese girl who had fallen and hurt her wrist. She had one arm around her and was gently reassuring her. She went to find the little girl's mother to report the incident and offered to look after her in case she fell again. They played together for the rest of the visit and I was stunned by the way children get things so right sometimes while the grown-ups do their best to break everything.

My dd started school this year and was struggling with the bombardment of questions from me! So, every night she chooses 3 questions out of a jar and that's all I ask her.
One question was " who needs a friend in your class?"
She then went on tell me that a little boy (he has learning difficulties) doesn't have any friends at school. She then said "apart from me mummy, I played with him because he didn't have any friends".
Awwwww!
A couple of days later she was walking behind him and ran to catch up with him and he was so pleased he held her hand on the way home.

What lovely stories.
DD is only 2 and a half but she is usually very kind. Recently at a party another child burst her balloon and was crying so DD gave her hers.
She is also being very helpful to me while I am pregnant. So far this morning she has put all the clothes in the washing machine and unpacked the shopping without being asked!

DS is only 14 months. The other day he was eating a packet of his favourite snacks and I took one, making an exagerated "mmm" sound. He smiled at me, took another one out of the packet and fed it to me. I thanked him and it was all lovely, until he the took the one out of his mouth and tried to feed that to me too!

My eldest saw the ' Save the children' advert ' and asked very earnestly that he wants to donate to help them.

He's 8 years old and it pulled my heart strings how honest and caring he is.

We'd been to a family wedding when dd was aged just 2. The bride and groom had left a colouring book and some bits and pieces in her place setting, including an odd little green hedgehoggy porcupiney thing which my dd took a shine to.

Several weeks later I was sitting on the sofa on a Saturday afternoon, desperately trying to get some work I was finding challenging done. I was using an ancient school laptop and working via a vpn that kept dropping connection and I was despairing of ever finishing, and so resentful of wasting my weekend that way that when the laptop crashed for the umpteenth time I just howled, and hot tears flowed.

Dd came quietly downstairs and peeped through the banisters before sidling up to me and saying with real concern, and a head-tilt to make mn proud, "You want a funny little hedgehog??"

It made me laugh through my tears then and it still makes me smile to remember it!

Dd (age 2) got given chocolate buttons packet at nursery today and we headed to friend's house for lunch. She saved them and shared them with everyone else before eating any herself. Trust me, this was very restrained and kind for her!

My elder daughter is really kind. She loves lending things to friends. Also, we tend to discuss toys that we 'want' or 'toys' that you need, or whether we should give to people who really need. My other half is from a second world country, so she has seen deprivation first hand. Recently, she brought a barbie to me, and said 'we should give this to someone who really wants it, as I don't really need it as I have another one.' It made my heart swell with joy.