This Week · Kindness
For littler ones: If you do one nice thing for someone, can it make their whole day better?
Some kindnesses are big and planned. But most are small — a thing you do without thinking, and then it's done, and you've half forgotten it by supper. This week we're wondering whether a little one counts for more than it looks like: can one small kind thing change someone's whole day? It's a good one to turn over in the car, because everyone in the family has done one, and everyone has been on the other end of one.
This week's stories
American
On a Mississippi hunt, President Theodore Roosevelt won't shoot a worn-out bear cornered and tied for him because it wouldn't be sporting — and a Brooklyn shopkeeper's wife reads about it and sews the first “teddy's bear.”
American
For decades a man walks the frontier planting apple orchards for families who haven't arrived yet — a quiet kindness aimed at strangers he'll never meet.
American
A young couple with almost nothing each secretly give up the one thing they love to buy the other a gift — and the gifts no longer have anything to go with.
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Listen together in the app — short audio stories for kids 4–10, at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
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