To the Editor:
What a wonderful full-page ad (recently written by an anonymous neighbor) did to capture my attention.
I, a newly retired school nurse, employed by our Board of Education for the past six years, has seen first- hand the effects (or lack thereof) regarding kindness among children.
From where I stood, and the children who entered my office day after day — much of what a child hears, learns and says — all begins at home.
My perspective made me understand each parent is mainly responsible for the demonstrated behavior a child will develop at a tender age. Of course, the positive influence of a good education is not to be excluded.
But, how we speak to each other as spouses, how we speak to our children, and how we address each other every day, will impact early upon our children, and those in their company.
So let’s try to show each other the same list of thoughtful kindness our neighbor so conveniently put forward. How simple the list, why so hard the task?
It seems to me if we as parents don’t begin to demonstrate these acts of kindness toward one another, a child is not apt to learn them on his or her own.
So let’s begin the list and act on them… If not now, then when?
Faye DeCaro, RN, BSN, MA
A fellow Greenwich neighbor
