An Honor to Cardon

All year long in Cardon and Brinly's Elementary school they have focused on Kindness. Both of them were in a Kindness Club where service projects were organized and kind things were accomplished. Each time anyone on the faculty saw a child do a random act of kindness they were given a link with their name on it and the links were joined and strung down the halls of the school. Today they had a kindness lunch and assembly outside of the school with all of the kids and their families to talk about all of the service projects completed and see how long their chain of Kindness had become. At the end of the Principles speech she said she had one final person to recognize and called Cardon to come up in front of the whole school and all of their families. She told the school that a few weeks ago Cardon was riding his bike to school with Brinly and a few neighbor kids when our neighbor Nicole crashed on her bike. She was cut up, and crying. Cardon told Brinly to stay with her and raced up to the school. He parked his bike, ran over to the Principal and told her what had happened and asked if he could go back and help her. He ran down the hill, helped Nicole up, then walked her and the bike up to the school where she could see the nurse. The Principal said it was the kindest act she had seen the whole year and then got choked up saying that if her child was riding their bike she would want Cardon with them. He was given the final link with his name on it to join the chain. BJ and I were sooooo proud of him--more proud than any academic achievement would be because this reflected Cardon's character--the person he is becoming when others aren't around to notice. I wasn't surprised that Cardon helped Nicole but boy we're proud of that guy! Way to go Cardon--I don't think you'll ever forget it!