Our Neighbor’s Kind Note Floored Me

--by cheeka, posted Sep 15, 2024

Our eldest daughter (who has special needs) has a habit of plucking leaves from the plants and making some designs to meet her sensory needs. It's a harmless past time so my wife and I never bothered with it. We created a garden in our house to meet her needs. But over the past few months, she has a habit of stepping in our neighbors garden and taking some leaves from the plants. I tried to gently point out to her that our neighbor may not like their plants to be disturbed but she became sensitive. So I wrote a note to our neighbor apologizing on her behalf and requesting them a list of plants I can buy for them. Our neighbor floored us with his kindness with a note: "Don't even think about it, she is like our daughter. It's just some plants, we can always replace them.
She can feel free to come if that makes her happy."
Our neighbor is the community member of this week and I am in disguise :)
Thank you kindspringers; you all inspire me in one form or other!

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Posted by cheeka
Sep 15, 2024
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Readers Comments

Mish wrote: That is so beautiful, cheeka 💕 💕 💕

dotmatrix wrote: How beautiful! Thank you for sharing this story. Your neighbor sounds great. ♥

pluto178 wrote: Thats definitely a kindness we have similar neighbours and learn a lot from our acceptance of things as they are…..newbies might start by complaining but they always come around to realising how much more that neighbour has to cope with than us…… clearly your daughter sees the beauty in things and is drawn to them………your neighbours are full of love. X

DrJoe wrote: Your neighborhood is a lovely "Little KindSpring" :)

DANCE wrote: What beautiful words to read, bless you all!

Helenconnell2 wrote: That's such a beautiful story.

Rajni wrote: Your daughter received the kindness she dearly deserved, you being a good neighbor got a kind response from your neighbor.

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