“Please be a good president, be kind to all people” – kids write compassionate letters to Donald Trump
If the compassionate letters written by thousands of kids across America ever find their way to United States President-elect, Donald Trump, it should touch even the hardest part of his heart.
Kids across the country are giving the Republican some advice about how to be kind and accepting.
Children weren’t oblivious of Donald Trump’s divisive campaign rhetoric and upon his win at the just concluded election, the same fears and concerns nurtured by their parents and relatives became as much of a concern to them.
That concern prompted Molly Spence Sahebjami, a Seattle resident who is of Iranian descent, to begin collecting letters for Trump after her kindergarten kid expressed his own concern about Trump’s presidency.
Sahebjami suggested her 5-year-old write the President-elect a letter instead of passively fearing Trump’s words. “Why don’t you talk to him about why it’s important to be kind?” she proposed.
She found inspiration in her son’s letter which read: “Dear President-elect Trump, please be a good president. Be kind to all people. Some people in my family are a special religion and they are not bad guys,” to launch a closed Facebook group named “Dear President Trump: Letters from Kids About Kindness” for other parents to share their kids’ compassionate letters.
Shortly after, Sahebjmai opened the Facebook group for other parents. The group has a few restrictions, as outlined by the description: the letters must come from children under 18 and they must be positive.
Now there are nearly 10,000 members.
Though the group is closed, some parents have started posting their kids’ notes publicly with the hashtag #KidsLettersToTrump on Twitter and Instagram.
See some of them below;
#kidsletterstotrump 13 yrs old and gracious beyond her years. This was the day after, with tears flowing down her face. #wearewatching pic.twitter.com/2zbj2PmvoB
— Lara (@larahollingswor) November 17, 2016
One concerned 6th-grader’s letter to our President-elect. #kidsletterstotrump pic.twitter.com/IxSkOSwtKH
— Dan Bernstein (@dan_bernstein) November 10, 2016
My 6-year-old’s contribution to #kidsletterstotrump pic.twitter.com/zgY9fNMoII
— Eve J. Brown (@evejoybrown) November 18, 2016
