This Instagram Account Shares Uplifting News From Around The World So You Can See All The Good There Is (50 Posts)
The world can seem like a messed up place. Especially if we look at it through the mainstream media. But it can also be beautiful. We just need to remind ourselves of that every once in a while.
Enter the Instagram account 'Good News Dog.' It regularly fetches uplifting moments from around the globe for the 1.4 million people that follow it, giving them one reason to smile after another.
Think of it as a good boy who gets up early in the morning to bring you the newspaper. Only instead of your coffee table, the fella leaves it on your social media feed. And instead of the fearmongering articles, there's a picture of a woman who just knit a bag of hats for a shelter. Or another one showing thousands of Berliners greeting Ukrainian refugees with signs, offering a place to stay.
Continue scrolling to explore this wholesome corner of the internet through Bored Panda's hand-picked selection of its best posts.
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Today a lady and her husband came into our Home Depot and told us that the insurance company might not pay for their little boy’s walker, so they went on the internet and found plans to make one out of PVC pipe. My store manager heard about this and went over to them and said, "We got this."
We started putting it together and told the family to go and enjoy ice cream and come back in an hour. Other associates started jumping in and when the family came back it was done. Everyone was crying to see Logan walk around with the biggest smile on his face.
When the family tried to pay us, we said "No way, this one is on us."
What a wonderful act of kindness!
What a world we live in where someone in the wealthiest country on Earth can't get a piece of medical equipment for their child because insurance won't cover it. Healthcare should be a right.
It no longer is the wealthiest country in the world. Just a miniscule minority is financialy wealthy, but everyone is poor. Guns are considered more important than health, safety, decency, education and equality.
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Let's force women to give birth. Then when that bundle of joy is here, let's make it really difficult for them to be able to care for their child like they want. Make it difficult for them to get basic needs, healthcare, education, food... If they happen to have a child whith special needs, that's all on them. No extra help. When the time comes for them to go to school...don't do anything about gun control. Force women to have children that might no even live past 18...It's not just women being punished, it's their children too. It's heartbreaking. Why is someone's right to carry arms, more important than the lives these guns can take?
Well they aren't "prolife" as they claim. They are pro birth only. Then
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It's a lovely story, but it's presented as a feel-good story instead of an example of the dystopian nightmare that is US health"care".
Yeah, this reminds me of that headline from last year or so "seven year old sells cookies to pay off his fellow students school lunch debt" (or something to that effect). Child labor to pay off child debt, aaahhhh America!!
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Great manager, great team. But damn it this is not kindness, this extremely awful that a child is left without walker and parents come up with alternative solutions. If women are forced to give birth the least a country can do is healthcare up to 18yr covered + free/affordable daycare + Hot food with veg/fruit... Great people working in store, parents are doing amazing not giving up and finding solutions, bad bad country to be living in, constantly relying on kindness and creativity.
Denying that cute little munchkin the ability to walk is just heartbreaking. Shame on you America. Thank goodness for individual Americans
this shouldn't happen we shouldn't need this this makes me furious that the world I will soon inherit has these systems in place
All it takes is a little kindness to make the world a nicer, more thoughtful place. Well done to all these wonderful people. :)
Insurance not covering the Walker is the real issue but such a kind story
That's a nice gesture, but it's disgraceful that this had to happen. America sucks. And yes, unfortunately I'm an American.
What also sucks is there is absolutely nothing we can do to change it. Regular Americans have no real power or influence. Sadly I truly believe voting is an illusion and neither party has anyone's interest in mind but their own. I think that creating a battle over who gets to vote is a red herring for the fact that it doesn't really make a difference. No politician is actually trying to change the system because anyone who does gets booted from the system before they can make real change. No one in power who is getting wealthy on taxpayer dollar wants the system to change. But maybe that's just my pessimism from the past few years talking.
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And that's why the US is actually a third world country, kids going without wheelchairs and walkers.
This is fabulous! He looks so happy to be able to walk around now. How can any POS insurance company deny that kind of freedom to a child. They'd deny them the ability to walk. Make it make sense. They're monsters.
A great act of kindness but the family should not have had the worry of the cost of the walker.
Wholesome for the kid who has no idea of the s**t he has been born into, just a happy little dude, the rest of us are horrified the fact a kid can't get what is clearly an important and essential medical aid. F**K THE USA, not the ordinary citizens who are powerless but the bastards in charge who need to make millions more this year instead of meeting basic social needs.
One happy story out of a country whose government ought to have this covered, 3 cheers to the store....
That is a wonderful act of kindness of Home Depot employees without a doubt. However, an actual wholesome situation would read the US "Healthcare System" burned to the ground, replaced by a system governed by common sense and empathy.
It's really lovely, but the real story is, they can't get a free Walker for a child... what the hell?
How does a walker cost if one can be made at Home Depot in under an hour? Sadly $1000s I am guessing
ok like uplifting but also f*****g horrible they had to resort to home Depot to get a walker for their child! what the hell
Awesome of the staff, so shitty they live somewhere the ability to walk is withheld from children due to the financial status of their parents
What the heck??? A child goes without a piece of required equipment because of their parents' means??? I mean, the child is adorable, and bless the staff for doing what they did, but how is this acceptable? Why do people accept this?
Pages like 'Good News Dog' are needed more than you might think. "Unfortunately, a lot of the news we consume today isn’t so much reporting as it is a way of keeping people addicted to the news cycle," said licensed psychologist Logan Jones, PsyD.
Since sensational headlines get more attention, Jones says media outlets often end up focusing on disaster reporting—and rarely any positive news.
"Consuming too much of this kind of news, whether actively or passively, can be very toxic, and what you hear has an impact on your mood."
Annie Miller, MSW, LCSW-C, LICSW, explains the process like this: when we experience a threat, our brain activates the fight or flight response, and the systems in our body react accordingly.
Consuming the news can activate the sympathetic nervous system, which causes our body to release stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. Then, when a crisis is happening, and we are experiencing this stress response more frequently, Miller says physical symptoms may arise.
And I see you are an LCSW. You have used your hardship to grow compassion instead of bitterness. All the best to you, good sir.
This emotional toll and negative effect on the psyche was demonstrated in a study that found people who watched negative material, as compared to those who watched positive or neutral material, showed an increase in both anxious and sad moods after just 14 minutes of viewing television news bulletins and programs.
In addition to an increase in anxious and sad moods, the researchers also found the results to be consistent with the theories of worry that implicate a negative mood as a causal factor in facilitating worrisome thoughts.
That second sentence was completely unnecessary. You can't judge a country for its past. All countries including mine have embarrassing moments in history. We can't tag Germans as nazis, we can't tag Spain (where I live) with dictatorship and terrorism, and so on. And you can't say polish people are doing better than they did. Different times, different people. Congrats for today's job, Poles. Better think twice what you write, dude.
There's even a word for the act of obsessively reading bad news despite the onset of anxiety It's called doomscrolling and even thought it's quite new, research stretching back for decades has long warned that consuming too much negative news can take its toll.
Studies have linked poor mental health to news exposure during negative and traumatic events; the more news a person consumes during and after these events, the more likely they are to suffer from depression, stress and anxiety. For example, there's a study that surveyed 4,675 Americans in the weeks following the Boston Marathon bombings and collected data on how much media they consumed. Participants who engaged with more than six hours of media coverage per day were nine times more likely to also experience symptoms of high acute stress than those who only watched a minimal amount of news.
2020 was exceptionally bad. "We've had so much news from COVID-19 and the economic breakdown to the reckoning with racial injustice combined with hurricanes and firestorms," said Roxane Cohen Silver, a research psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. "It's clear the stress of the election has added to all this."
"So much of it is open-ended and uncertain at the moment," Graham Davey, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom added. "That alone is something that people find extraordinarily stressful."
Psychologists refer to it as an "intolerance of uncertainty," and, unfortunately, it's a vicious cycle. You find listening to the news stressful and anxiety-provoking but can't stop doing it because you feel the need to find out what on earth is going on.
But there are things that people can do to protect their mental health from the potentially damaging effects of obsessively consuming news. "It's important to be informed but we don't want you to be doomscrolling," said Judith Andersen, a health psychologist at the University of Toronto in Canada.
"Check the news just once a day, and I don't think it's best to check in the morning because it clouds the rest of your day." She also recommends confining yourself to well-established and credible news sources to avoid the risk of over-hyped or even misleading content.
Never let our elderly feel lonely. They are treasures and need to be treated like so
But those times that you do sit down to get up to speed with the world around you, Davey recommends that you actually read articles in full, rather than simply checking out the headlines. "Headlines are usually dramatized, and you need more context than that," he explained.
Or simply fire up 'Good News Dog!'
This hits home. Hopefully my kitten with FIP will be declared cured of this normally-fatal disease in two weeks (treatment is 84 days of medication injections) - and he’s definitely getting some delish foods and a party :D I’m so glad this pupper made it too!
Americans should take a lesson from this example. This is how to offer comfort to strangers in peril.
Woohooooooooooooooo. If we saw things the way that 6 year olds did, the world would be a better place.
My grandmas are both long gone :( I will help protecc OP’s grandma, as both of mine would want me to XD
It doesn't matter if they're biological or not, a good mama will take in any infants.
While this is an awesome little story, I have seen it on BP probably over 10 times now lol
I hope the school helps pay for this, but realistically, I bet the funding comes out of the teacher's pocket. If you happen to serve on a school PTA or student council, this would be a great thing for you to set up and fund!
Oh my god, I learned from John Oliver about inmate firefighters and how they are unable to get a job as one after release. This is amazing!
My dad had an accident and sustained a catastrophic brain injury when I was 18. He lived, but my “dad” was gone forever. I thought he’d be around forever, to walk me down the aisle, to see me graduate college… what I wouldn’t give for just one more minute to talk with him. He died last year after 21 years of being bedridden, in diapers, with a feeding tube, and catastrophically brain-damaged. But nor would I trade a single second of those 21 years, either. IDK, I miss my dad :(
"And now, the ladies of the Peach Glade Retirement Home will play you a selection of Iron Maiden hits!"
https://people.com/human-interest/texas-couple-takes-in-delivery-driver-for-5-days-car-gets-stuck-during-winter-storm/
i lost my father to stage 4 prostate cancer 6 years ago. i couldn't do s**t for him. didn't even try and talk about whatever he wanted to say. i was suffering from mental health issues that kept me in bed 16 hours a day, and in the hours (of the night) when i was awake, i would work to pay off the medical bills. he wasn't a big talker and i was never a good child. i wonder how many stories, and memories he took away with him forever without telling me. once I'm gone, no one will remember him at all.
It's an easy sign to get wrong. Unless you actually know what you're signing in ASL, it's really easy to accidentally sign "Happy Day Your Mom Birthed You Out." (Not literally, but pretty close. The sign for "birth" means labor and is very different than "birthday.")
There was a group of people standing in a circle in a parking lot once, all facing out. Turned out there was a lady on the ground who had a seizure and they were surrounding her to make sure no one messed with her until the ambulance got there. Some was kneeling beside her with their hand behind her head so, if she seized again, she wouldn't hit her head on the pavement. Restores my faith in humanity when stuff like this happens. They were standing facing away from her because they didn't want her to wake up and be embarrassed at seeing a bunch of strangers standing around her staring.
🤔 it appears I must now go past Sparkle’s house at least twice daily.
I watched the video of this. He's so happy that she did this for him, he came out from behind the table and gave her a hug. She started bawling she was so happy!
i've seen this before. the rest of the story: the son posted the story on *something* and the locals went and bought him out of donuts.
Oh come on ... too early to be ugly crying in my car... I'm 43 male and working, for gods sake!
I didn't realize how much I needed this until about 1/2 way through. I've been heading down to a dark place lately, this really did help.
raise you hand if you think people who abandon senior dogs(without a reason)are the worst
Guys she pulled off the road so they could see them!! Pulled off the road....
Conclusions: 1) animals are funny 2) satanists enjoy each others' company 3) pentagon (maybe dhs now) still makes those embarrassing memes while destroying billions of lives.
Yall like wholesome I dare you to watch one single episode of Relative Race without crying. not countying day 10 oc. Especially one where one of the teams unites with their parents for the first time.
So many of these posts are just recycled and have been posted many times already over the years. Maybe I'm the idiot for hoping to read something new and relevant but i find it kind of annoying a website like this just keeps showing me the same stuff.
Can we get it monthly, please? My story: in my school, in 12th grade of German High School ("Oberstufe") when the teacher is not there the lesson gets cancelled and you get homework as replacement. Over the last quarter usually in a week 30% of classes got cancelled, there were weeks where more was cancelled than took place. My Latin teacher wrote every Wednesday a vocab test and because I had to do the homework to replace cancelled lessons I could not properly learn for the test. I wrote her every week a letter listing the lessons cancelled (with percentage) and how much class in the subjects was cancelled that I chose for "Abitur" exams (similar to A levels), e. g. Wednesday, 3rd period last test, 4th and 6th cancelled, ...., 42.3% cancelled. She said that everyone who has many cancelled classes will be graded that a normal B is an A, a normal C is a B etc. I would have scored an A- anyways so I did not need that but some would have failed without the rule.
Oh come on ... too early to be ugly crying in my car... I'm 43 male and working, for gods sake!
I didn't realize how much I needed this until about 1/2 way through. I've been heading down to a dark place lately, this really did help.
raise you hand if you think people who abandon senior dogs(without a reason)are the worst
Guys she pulled off the road so they could see them!! Pulled off the road....
Conclusions: 1) animals are funny 2) satanists enjoy each others' company 3) pentagon (maybe dhs now) still makes those embarrassing memes while destroying billions of lives.
Yall like wholesome I dare you to watch one single episode of Relative Race without crying. not countying day 10 oc. Especially one where one of the teams unites with their parents for the first time.
So many of these posts are just recycled and have been posted many times already over the years. Maybe I'm the idiot for hoping to read something new and relevant but i find it kind of annoying a website like this just keeps showing me the same stuff.
Can we get it monthly, please? My story: in my school, in 12th grade of German High School ("Oberstufe") when the teacher is not there the lesson gets cancelled and you get homework as replacement. Over the last quarter usually in a week 30% of classes got cancelled, there were weeks where more was cancelled than took place. My Latin teacher wrote every Wednesday a vocab test and because I had to do the homework to replace cancelled lessons I could not properly learn for the test. I wrote her every week a letter listing the lessons cancelled (with percentage) and how much class in the subjects was cancelled that I chose for "Abitur" exams (similar to A levels), e. g. Wednesday, 3rd period last test, 4th and 6th cancelled, ...., 42.3% cancelled. She said that everyone who has many cancelled classes will be graded that a normal B is an A, a normal C is a B etc. I would have scored an A- anyways so I did not need that but some would have failed without the rule.
