Can You Be a Crown Straightener?
I volunteered in my fifth-grade daughter's class today. She's graduating from elementary school, so, of course, I was guilted into…
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By Charissa Bates Please Be Kind To Teenage Workers
“Thanks for being kind to me,” a teenager tells me at the fast food restaurant window as he hands me…
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By Krystal Sieben The World is Different and So are Our Kids
It’s a sunny Tuesday afternoon, I pull up to the yellow curb and hear the flag jangling against the pole.…
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By Melissa Voelker Here’s to Raising Kind and Determined Daughters
“Is that your daughter out there in the pink shirt?” the mom sitting next to me asked. “Yeah. She is,”…
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By Cat Borg I Pick Up the Shoes
My 5-year-old left her shoes at the top of the stairs today, discarded on her way to the bathroom when…
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His Shirt was Yellow and His Heart was Kind
It’s easy for a 9-year-old to become overwhelmed by the excitement of a busy birthday party—that is all the more…
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Sometimes Kindness Finds You in a Coffee Shop
He had on his Sunday best. He appeared to be in his late 70s or early 80s with soft gray…
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To the Fifth Grade Parents: Thank You
To the fifth-grade parents in my community: How are we here already? The end of fifth grade. The end of…
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What Daniel Tiger Taught Me About Standing up for What’s Right
On a beautiful, sunny morning, I was with mama friends and all our kiddos. Between the five of us, we…
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Choose Grace over Judgment
Growing up, I was known as the teacher’s pet, the smart aleck—the girl who tutored older kids with their chemistry…
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By Anna McArthur Everyone Needs Kindness and Other Things to Remember When You Feel Judgy
It wasn’t her fault I really didn’t like her. She was all sinewy and lean. Well, maybe some of it…
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By Megan Kiger Stand Up, My Love—You Are Strong
Vindictive lunch hour tactics. Room temperature shoulders gone cold. Weaponizing the whites of their eyes, rolling them back and back…
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