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Kindness at Christmas

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Teaching our children to be kind is something that we should be doing year-round. Yet, at Christmas time, children often get a dose of the “gimmies” instead of having a heart of kindness and giving. Here are some simple ways that you can keep kindness at Christmas.

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Study Kindness in Scripture

The best way to keep kindness in the front of our kids' minds it to keep them pointed to scripture. Here are a few verses that you can read with your children, and maybe even have them memorize so they can have them hidden in their hearts:

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32 ESV)

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. (Hebrews 6:10 ESV)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23 ESV)

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. (Colossians 3:12-13 ESV)

Random Acts of Kindness

Another great way to focus on kindness is to do random acts of kindness. I usually have my kids stick to doing random acts of kindness for each other and for other members of our family. Here are some ideas:

  • Bake cookies for grandparents.
  • Send cards to family that live far away – include a picture that your child has drawn.
  • Encourage a child to pick a chore that a sibling doesn't like to do and have them do it for them.
  • Have them pick a family member to write an encouraging note to.

Kindness through Serving

Another great way to have your children focus on kindness is to focus on serving others. Different from the random acts of kindness, these are things you would do as a whole family. Here are some ideas:

  • Go visit homebound from your church – take them cookies and cards that the kids make. Stay and talk. Sing Christmas carols!
  • Operation Christmas Child.
  • Toys for Tots.
  • Work at a soup kitchen.
  • Take sandwiches or jackets to homeless.

These are just a few ideas – and I am sure you can come up with more! Make sure you leave some of your ideas in the comments!

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About Mandy Kelly

In Loving Memory of Mandy Kelly.
Mandy, her husband, and two of their children passed away in a home fire on March 21, 2017. Read more from Mandy at Worshipful Living. Read my reflections on Mandy's life in this post: Life Lessons from Mandy.
Mandy is passionate about two things: The Word of God and the Souls of Men (and Ladies!). She is a married to her best friend, and gets the privilege to love on their three blessings (who lost their biological momma leaving her husband widowed). She loves that the Lord has let her life be an example of delighting in Him and watching Him mold her life to make her desires match His. She spent 9 years in an early childhood classroom, and 4 years in an “in house” seminary program at her home church. She loves to bring God glory through her roles as Christ-follower, Wife and Mother (in that order!) She enjoys women’s ministry, cooking, crafting, and traveling the world. Mandy is also passionate about Adoption and helping women with Infertility- as both are areas God has trusted her with. Her greatest desires are to have her marriage bring God ultimate glory, see her children walk in truth, to lead others to the feet of Jesus, and to lead women into deeper and intimate relationship with their Savior through study of the Word of God.

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  1. Kelly Hill says

    Thank you so much! These verses make excellent copywork and great discussions for our family. God bless!

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