Make a new year's kindness resolution with Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
How can you ensure a good start to the new year?
At the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, staff members think we can make 2021 a brighter year by sending more expressions of kindness into the world.
“To make this happen, we’re inviting kids and families to make and share resolutions of kindness for the new year,” according to a release.
“Kindness is a wonderful example of something that can unite us, to put yourself in others’ shoes to understand or comfort them,” said Bill Schlageter, the museum’s director of marketing.
The museum is asking those who make a resolution to show how they’ve put it into action in a message, photo or video to be shared by email to hi@pittsburghkids.org, on the museum’s Facebook page or on Instagram or Twitter at @pghkids.
In addition to appearing on social media, the resolutions will be displayed in the Northside museum during 2021. Resolutions should be submitted by Jan. 11.
The kindness initiative grew out of two of the museum’s previous crowd-sourced activities for children and families, designed to keep people connected while social distancing.
Videos for those activities, “New Ways to Say Hi” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor Singalong,” can be viewed on YouTube.
A few ways the museum suggests for putting kindness into action are “helping your brother, sister or friend, making a treat for someone, writing a kind message in chalk or painting one on a rock or feeding the birds. You can make art and give it to someone, clean up litter in your neighborhood or donate toys or books.”
Children are natural leaders for this kind of initiative, Schlageter said.
“Kindness embodies our entire mission of inspiring kindness, joy, creativity and curiosity,” he said. “As adults, we tend to become more formal and conservative, but children have a wonderful informality and spontaneity that can be contagious and really give life to a resolution.
“And if a resolution is wrapped in kindness, it can’t go wrong,” he added.
For more information on the kindness resolution and other virtual programming, visit pittsburghkids.org.
Shirley McMarlin is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Shirley by email at smcmarlin@triblive.com or via Twitter .
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