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Kids Like You And Me: Kindness

Louisa Billiter

"The Pea Green Boat" provides a unique and nurturing place to hear stories about how it feels to be excluded, mocked, and bullied because you’re different, in color or ability – or how it feels to be accepted despite those differences. This week, Annie talks about kindness with middle school children who share their "hurtful" experiences.

What does Montana’s limited ethnic and cultural diversity mean to the social development of the state’s children? Nearly 90 per cent of Montana’s children have little reason to learn, to think, or to act beyond their individual experience as a member of the majority.

Programs in the Kids Like You and Me series can help build empathy and teach compassion and acceptance. And they are a free resource for parents, caregivers, and teachers to help begin and moderate relevant conversations.

Greater Montana Foundation

Support for MTPR is provided by the Greater Montana Foundation – encouraging communication on issues, trends and values of importance to Montanans.

Chérie Newman is a former arts and humanities producer and on-air host for Montana Public Radio, and a freelance writer. She founded and previously hosted a weekly literary program, The Write Question, which continues to air on several public radio stations; it is also available online at PRX.org and MTPR.org.
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