Posts tagged: Stories

Cultural and spiritual heritages are often passed on to new generations through stories and teachings by elders.…

Kids love emojis. As fun visual substitutes for words, they help children share how they’re feeling and communicate…

Children’s group leaders often wonder how much to share about their personal lives with young people. We…

With the calendar shift from February to March, we’ve gone from remembering Black history to lifting up women and…

Sorting through a box of old school papers, I found a story one of my children wrote in 2nd grade. Her teacher had…

For a book lover like me, one bedtime story often turned into two or three as I tucked my young children in. But I…

Many of the refugees airlifted to the U.S. out of Afghanistan last month are currently housed at Fort Lee in Virginia,…

During quarantine, my family watched all of the Marvel movies in chronological order. It was one of the few series…

When the University of North Carolina declined to tenure Nikole Hannah-Jones after recruiting her for a chair in…

Hearing others’ stories and telling one’s own is a powerful way for children to connect spiritually. Personal…

It’s often the first thing a teacher or group facilitator looks for in a lesson plan: a line near the top that…

“But mom,” my eldest complained, “why do I have to go to church school? They never talk about anything…

My youngest child loves Van Gogh’s Starry Night. In fifth grade, he picked out a t-shirt that had Albert Einstein’s…

Over the past year, teachers, therapists, librarians, and others have created virtual rooms with bitmoji to engage…

My children love to read. From a young age, they knew that I would rarely deny their request to buy a book that caught…