The resource section at the back of the book provides guidance and organizations that will help you channel and amplify your own acts of kindness. You’ll discover how buying someone a meal or sharing a little encouragement at the right time can transform someone’s world, as well as your own. In HumanKind you’ll meet the mentor who changed a child’s life with a single lesson in shoe tying, the six-year-old who launched a global kindness movement, the band of seamstress grandmothers who mend clothes for homeless people, and more.īrad also provides dozens of ways you can make a difference through the simplest words and deeds. Knowing that simple acts of kindness transform lives across the globe every day, he sought out these stories and shares some of the best ones here.

Inspired by the many demonstrations of 'humankindness' that supported their family through Mia's recovery, Brad began writing about the people who rescued his family from that dark time, often with the smallest of gestures. Amid the stress and despair of waiting for the treatment to work, Brad and Mia were met by an outpouring of kindness from friends, family, and even complete strangers. Following her diagnosis, Brad spent most of the next two-and-a-half years either by her side as she received treatment or trying to shield their five-year-old son, Jack, from the worst of Mia’s illness.

Amid the HumanKind is the heartwarming, feel-good book that we all need right now.īrad Aronson’s life changed in an instant when his wife, Mia, was diagnosed with leukemia. Brad Aronson’s life changed in an instant when his wife, Mia, was diagnosed with leukemia. HumanKind is the heartwarming, feel-good book that we all need right now.

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