A little girl has shared some brilliantly simple wisdom for living a great life – and her mum has done us all a favour and turned it into a massive roadside sign for everyone to see.
Eliza, five, handed her mum Isabelle McKay-Smith, a note with her tips because she wanted people to ‘try to be happy’.
Eliza said she wished everyone in Sheffield could see her advice – so Isabelle, 34, got in touch with digital advertising agency CNS, who arranged for the note to feature on a billboard on the busiest road in their city.
The message, hand-written by Eliza, has been placed on a billboard on Sheffield Parkway, a 5.5-mile road that connects the city to the M1.
It reads: ‘Try to be happy. Be Kind. Try not to fall over. Don’t forget your keys.’
She signs off: ‘Eliza, age 5, from Greystones in Sheffield.’
Is that not the most spot-on advice you’ve ever read?
Proud mum Isabelle, a charity fundraising manager, said: ‘She loves encouraging people.
‘We go and cheer all the running events in Sheffield and she holds up signs telling the runners they’re smashing it.
‘She puts up notes for the neighbours saying having a good day.
‘We were having a conversation about being nice to each other and she was writing this note and said she wanted everyone in Sheffield to see the message.’
Isabelle said she hoped that all the adults driving to work would spot the billboard and heed her advice.
The sign will remain in place into next week so plenty of people can see it.
‘It’s just her nature to play nicely with others and to share and be generally kind,’ said Isabelle.
‘She just wants to be nice to everyone, every day.
‘There’s so much negativity around recently, it’s so nice to see a positive message for a change.
‘I’m hugely proud of her, but I’m sure there are plenty of five-year-olds in the country having the same conversation with their parents about being kind.
‘It’s just how she is and how children are in general.’
Eliza said: ‘I wanted to make a poster to go up in the middle of town where lots of people will see it, to make them happy and help them.
‘I love it and I feel proud.’
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