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Kindness Citation

Form OB-4 · Citation for Excessive Kindness

A ticket, but the good kind. The Kindness Citation is an official form from the Office of Brave Deeds that records a specific act of kindness (sharing a snack, helping a sibling, being patient on a long drive) with the date, an officer's remarks and a commendation stamp. Children love being “caught” doing something good.

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Exhibit A · Form OB-4

The Bureau of Whimsy

Office of Brave Deeds

Medal Hall · Lionheart Lane

Form: OB-4
Case No.: OB-2026-61806
Date: 09/02/2026

Citation for Excessive Kindness

Official Citation

Cited

Maya

Violation

Code 7-K: Kindness Exceeding the Posted Limit

Officer's report

Reliable witnesses confirm that at home, Maya helped someone without being asked. Nobody made this happen. It simply happened. This is highly irregular and extremely wonderful.

Witness statement: “Honestly, I got a bit teary.” — a very proud grown-up
Prior record: Repeat offender? This office certainly hopes so.

Penalty

A round of applause, to be served at once.

Filed in accordance with the Whimsy Act. Please keep in a safe and magical place.

Form OB-4 (Rev. 2026) · Page 1 of 1

Specimen filed for Maya, age 6. Yours carries your child’s name, its own case number and a working verification code. Scan this one with your phone to see the page your child will see.

When it’s called for

Any time you spot genuine kindness at home or at school.
Encouraging a habit you'd like to see more often.
Siblings who helped each other without being asked.
Classrooms with a kindness board or reward system.

How to file it

Start at the Filing Desk

4 steps

1Catch the kindnessNotice the moment. Specific, sincere acts work best.
2Write it upEnter your child's name and what they did. A sentence is plenty.
3Issue the citationPrint it and present it formally: “I'm afraid I'll have to write you up for this.”
4Log itAdd the kindness to your Kindness Ledger so future letters can mention it.

Notes from the Liaison Desk

Memoranda

Small touches that make the paperwork land, collected from authorised grown-ups.

Memo 1
Issue it immediately and with a straight face. The formality is the fun.
Memo 2
Logged kindnesses can turn up later in letters from Santa and the Tooth Fairy.
Memo 3
Teachers and coaches can make a stack. Classic citations are free and unlimited.

Tonight's bedtime story

All stories

Reading Room

The Office of Brave Deeds has stories too. Read one after the kindness citation (a ticket for being good) arrives: each has a 3-minute version for tired nights.

6 min · or 3 min short
Officer Pebble and the Last Ticket
Officer Prudence Pebble patrols Market Street writing Kindness Citations for held doors and rescued mittens, until a girl in a frog raincoat writes one back. A cosy story about noticing small kindnesses.
Read it tonight Put your child in it
6 min · or 3 min short
The Night Watchman and the Moon Clock
Mr Wick, the Bureau's night watchman, climbs the clock tower to wind the moon clock, but tonight it is ticking far too fast. He and Minutes, his note-taking owl, calm it down with slow, cocoa-smelling breaths.
Read it tonight Put your child in it
6 min · or 3 min short
The Night the Filing Cabinets Had a Sleepover
Once a year, when the floors are polished, the Bureau's filing cabinets have a sleepover. Tiny, a brand-new card-index box with only one file, worries that one file isn't enough, until it reads that file aloud.
Read it tonight Put your child in it

Questions from grown-ups

Kindness Citation (A Ticket for Being Good)

Plain answers about this document, for the grown-ups doing the filing.

Q.1How do kindness tickets work?

Grown-ups “catch” children being kind and issue an official citation describing what they did. It's positive reinforcement with a sense of humour.

Q.2Can the citations connect to Santa's letters?

Yes. Add each kind act to your Kindness Ledger, and personalised letters from Santa, the Tooth Fairy and others can mention it.

Q.3How often should I give kindness citations?

Often enough to feel special, not so often they become routine. Specific, sincere moments work best.

All Office of Brave Deeds forms

Cross-references

Form NP-3Free
Nice List Report Card
North Pole Liaison Office
A glowing North Pole report card: subjects, elf observations and commendations pulled from your Kindness Ledger.
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Form OB-1Free
Bravery Certificate (Doctor, Dentist, Shots)
For the brave ones after a shot, a check-up, a dentist visit or anything else that took real courage.
Certificate
Form NP-2Free
Nice List Certificate
North Pole Liaison Office
Official confirmation that your child is on this year's Nice List, checked twice and co-signed by a reindeer.
Certificate
Form OB-2Free
Potty Training Diploma
A grand graduation diploma for the big potty milestone — with honours, naturally.
Certificate

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