Few educators can match the expertise of the Pueblo Indians. Pueblo Indian writer Leslie Harmon recounts her years growing up in the Leguna Pueblo Reservation in the book "Yellow Woman and the Beauty of the Spirit." She recalled that everyone was a teacher and all activities had the potential to teach children. The book makes it unequivocally clear that people should not introduce…
Ask yourself what you have done in the past or perhaps you are planning to do to help cancer patients or anyone who really is in need of a donation. Well, here is an inspiring story of an 8-year-old boy by the name Thomas Moore from Maryland who grew his hair for two years to donate his hair to cancer patients! It all…
All parents want the best for their children. They want their young ones to turn out to be upstanding, knowledgeable adults who contribute to society. Some parents, believing that their adult children are too inexperienced to make decisions, pull all stops to manage their lives. They inadvertently become "monster parents". Many of them interfere with their children's activities and relationships. Others become pushy…
These random acts of kindness will leave you speechless and make you wonder whether we are doing all we can to create a better world for our children. An 18th-century German philosopher said that we are living in the best of all possible worlds. While it is true that things can be much worse than they currently are, it is far from true…
They say that you learn the most important life skills outside of the classroom. School can be great for learning maths and English, but children need much more than that to become happy and successful adults. These life skills are crucial for every individual, and it’s a great idea to teach them from an early age. 1. How to be independent. Learning to…
These illustrations capture in a funny way what adulthood is actually like. They might make you remember the transition from your childhood years. While we are young, we strive to achieve the things we dream of. Almost every young person dreams of being out there with the great ones. We put enormous amounts of energy into that task and do not stop until…
Whether you love dogs, hate them, or if you are not sure about them, you have to read this story about the friendship between a little girl and a pit bull. There's no better story to reaffirm the power of the bond between a dog and a person. A couple met and got married, and when they combined the family into one house…
It is certainly a dream of every girl, or rather many, to have some sort of a fairy tree in her bedroom. Well, Reddit user Radamshome went against the odds and decided to actualize his daughter’s dream. The project cost was a whopping $4250 and it took an unimaginable 350 hours for a period of 18 months to complete! Amazing, right? What’s even…