This Week · Wisdom
For littler ones: Who's the wisest person you know — and how can you tell?
This week we're wondering about wisdom — and the slippery thing about it is that being smart and being wise aren't the same. You can be quick and clever and still not be wise. It's a good one to turn over in the car or at the table, where everyone gets to point to a person they think is wise and try to say why.
This week's stories
Classics
The fast, boastful hare laughs at the slow tortoise and races him for sport — then, sure he's far ahead, lies down for a nap in the warm grass while the tortoise just keeps walking, step after step, toward the finish.
Classics
A great lion catches a tiny mouse who begs to be let go, promising that one day he'll repay it; the lion laughs at the idea of such a small creature helping him — and then, caught fast in a hunter's net, finds out who comes running.
American
A poor frontier boy with less than a year of school in his whole childhood teaches himself by firelight — writing sums with charcoal on a wooden shovel, and working three days in a neighbor's cornfield to make right a borrowed book the rain had ruined.
Talk about it
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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