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Some Good News In The World
For all the negative bullshit that we deal every day, here's a great story about a great man friending a great kid. Great job Travis..
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Need more stories like this to be reported. I am sure things like this happen all the time but media, etc focus on the negative (if it bleeds it leads, yadda yadda). I think having more of these types of things reported it would help to reinforce that most people are good people who want good things for themselves and others. It would be so much better than the reports that reinforce the negatives in our society.
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Agreed! Thanks for posting this!
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But alas, since it is a cool story about an athlete doing something nice for a young boy it gets buried with only 3 or 4 replies. Says a little something about our world. |
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I read that the other day. Shit made me tear up.
“I’ll say, ‘Who did you eat lunch with today?’ And he’ll say, ‘Nobody. But it’s OK, mom.’ I just don’t want him to be lonely,” she added. “I worry every day. I wonder if he doesn’t really have any friends. It’s hard.”
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Good news in the World and when you say World you mean America!
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I ask my kids (they are young) to go out of their way to make the odd kid out feel included and try to make friends with them. |
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Also looks like an FSU booster is giving the kid and his family some good tickets for an FSU game.
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It really makes a difference. One of the great things about us having a disabled daughter is that my other kids understand it and know how things go when out in public sometimes, so they go way out of their way to make the "different" kids feel included. |
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I became friends with them after a few years and kicked myself for not getting to know them sooner. I know kids will be kids, but they don't know what hidden diamond might be hidden inside someone else. |
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Love seeing shit like that.
Growing up in a small town, there really wasn't bullying and we were pretty good kids. My mom worked with most of the kids with disabilities, so I understood a lot about their struggles. We would sometimes invite the non-verbal autistic kids or the kid's with Down's syndrome to eat with us at lunch. We always said hi to them and if we ever saw someone being rude to them, we made sure to tell them to shut the **** up. When we have kids I will purposely invite the kids with special needs or disabilities to birthday parties and social gatherings. Kids need to learn acceptable, tolerance and the ability to interact with people who are different. These kids don't deserve to be singled out. It's so sad that some of these kids never get invited to birthday parties because of their challenges. It breaks my heart. |
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