I thank you for the message that you are trying to get across, but I would like to maybe bring an opinion of my own.

Please find a way to show people alternative way, positive reinforcement, & not only through fear.

By only showing the negative side of the human race and the torture that is doled out to animals, please use care that you are not responsible for desensitization.

The only way to positively effect a cause is through positive reinforcement.

To give people a positive alternative to overcome a horrible situation so that they may be educated to change things in a positive way.

Good change can come, not only through making awareness of the horrible manifestations that have come to our race, but through the wondrous ways and showings of those few enlightened ones.

Please help stimulate a change to show the human race a better way.

If I only say to my children you are bad, they will become such.

If I say to them you are beautiful, they will become such.

God Bless You for I know your heart is in the right place, but please use care on how you use your own power.

We each have tremendous power to evoke change from those that surround us.

His second grade teacher wrote,

"Teddy is an excellent student,

well liked by his classmates,

but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."

His third grade teacher wrote,

"His mother's death has been hard on him.

He tries to do his best,

but his father doesn't show much interest,

and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren't taken."

Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote,

"Teddy is withdrawn and doesn't show much interest in school.

He doesn't have many friends and he sometimes sleeps in class."

By now,

Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she was ashamed of herself.

She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas presents,

wrapped in beautiful ribbons and bright paper,

except for Teddy's.

His present was clumsily wrapped in the heavy,

brown paper that he got from a grocery bag.

Mrs. Thompson took pains to open it in the middle of the other presents.

Some of the children started to laugh when she found a rhinestone bracelet with some of the stones missing,

and a bottle that was one-quarter full of perfume.

But she stifled the children's laughter when she exclaimed how pretty the bracelet was,

putting it on,

and dabbing some of the perfume on he wrist.

Teddy Stoddard stayed after school that day just long enough to say,

"Mrs. Thompson, today you smelled just like my Mom used to."

After the children left,

she cried for at least an hour.

On that very day,

she quit teaching reading,

writing and arithmetic.

Instead,

she began to teach children.

Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy.

As she worked with him, his mind seemed to come alive.

The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded.

By the end of the year, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class and, despite her lie that she would love all the children the same, Teddy became one of her "teacher's pets."

A year later, she found a note under her door, from Teddy, telling her that she was the best teacher he ever had in his whole life.

Six years went by before she got another note from Teddy. He then wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in life.

Four years after that, she got another letter, saying that while things had been tough at times, he'd stayed in school, had stuck with it, and would soon graduate from college with the highest of honors. He assured Mrs. Thompson that she was still the best and favorite teacher he had ever had in his whole life.

Then four more years passed and yet another letter came. This time he explained that after he got his bachelor's degree, he decided to go a little further. The letter explained that she was still the best and favorite teacher he ever had. But now his name was a little longer.... The letter was signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, MD.

The story does not end there. You see, there was yet another letter that spring. Teddy said he had met this girl and was going to be married. He explained that his father had died a couple of years ago and he was wondering if Mrs. Thompson might agree to sit at the wedding in the place that was usually reserved for the mother of the groom. Of course, Mrs. Thompson did. And guess what? She wore that bracelet, the one with several rhinestones missing. Moreover, she made sure she was wearing the perfume that Teddy remembered his mother wearing on their last Christmas together.

They hugged each other, and Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson's ear, "Thank you Mrs. Thompson for believing in me. Thank you so much for making me feel important and showing me that I could make a difference."

Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back. She said, "Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn't know how to teach until I met you."

(For you that don't know, Teddy Stoddard is the Dr. at Iowa Methodist in Des Moines that has the Stoddard Cancer Wing.)

Warm someone's heart today. . . pass this along. I love this story so very much, I cry every time I read it. Just try to make a difference in someone's life today? tomorrow? just "do it".

Random acts of kindness, I think they call it!