Stranger Waits Until Mom’s 3-Yr-Old Is Asleep, Then Hands Her Note That Leaves Her In Tears

You get onto a crowded train with your 3-year-old in tow. He’s a cantankerous little munchkin, as many 3-year-olds are, but you shuttle him along and find a place to sit as you make your journey home.

As the train rattles along, your son coughs and you remind him to cover his mouth when he does that, so he looks at you impishly and starts coughing unnecessarily into his hand. When he demands “What?” a little later on, you chuckle and remind him that the polite term is “Pardon,” not the sharp and abrupt “What?”

This is everyday life for thousands of moms who are modeling proper behavior on the go. Life doesn’t slow down or pause for anyone, so a lot of training has to happen on the fly. It takes poise and class to deal with some of the curveballs a toddler will throw at you, but moms seem to agree that it’s more than worth it.

Samantha Welch was one such young mother. In her early twenties, she and her son went through the above scenario. It was just another day for them, but at one point an older gentleman tapped her on the shoulder and handed her a paper.

“I think you’ve dropped this out of your bag.” And then he disappeared.

Curious, Samantha opened the paper, and inside was a touching hand-written note along with some money:

“Have a drink on me, you are a credit to your generation, polite and teaching the little boy good manners.

P.S. I have a daughter your age, someone did the same for her once. Hope when she has children she is as good a mother as you.

– Man on train at table with glasses and hat. Have a lovely evening.”

Samantha wracked her brain for some sort of memory of this mystery gentleman, but she kept coming up empty-handed. The note nearly made her cry as she sat on the train with her son Rylan, and she knew she had to find the kind stranger and let him know just how much his gesture had meant to her.

After posting online and making it to several talk shows to put out the word, the mysterious stranger, Ken Saunders, recognized himself in the story. He told his daughter he thought he might be the person in the story, and she immediately took steps to contact Samantha.

When asked why he did what he did, he responded that he’d admired her behavior on the train, saw that she was doing a fantastic job of parenting, and just wanted her to know how great a job she was doing. A father himself, he recognized how life-changing a simple recognition could be.

“Youngsters are much maligned, and she was a really nice kid,” he explains. “I think there’s such an emphasis on the young misbehaving and it’s in the press, but you don’t get enough good press and they don’t get enough praise for what they do…”

What a charming man and what a caring, gracious mom! Ken’s actions just go to show that your acts of kindness don’t have to be grand acts of charity: sometimes the little, spur-of-the-moment choices can have the greatest impact.

Source : http://www.liftable.com/amandathomason/70884/