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Chick-Fil-A Employees Track Down Elderly Couple To Deliver Food In Time Of Need

“The food was eaten and gone that day, but the impact this had will last a lifetime.”

‘For those two minutes, she is not the only one flapping and waving her hands in the air’: Mom of severely autistic daughter on why she loves roller coasters

“On roller coasters, everyone is allowed to stim.”

Today’s Children Are Emotionally Unwell (Why & How To Fix It)

Our children’s “misbehaviors” are symptoms of a much deeper problem that can’t be ignored any longer.

‘The most frightening yet liberating moments I’ve experienced’: Transgender teen on her community’s acceptance during transition

“I never realized how much weight I was holding by keeping my identity a secret. Letting go of that weight made me feel like, for the first time, that I could breathe easy.”

‘I lost the baby.’: Mom thanks ‘miracle’ surrogate after being diagnosed with same pregnancy complication as Kate Middleton

“I simply wrote, ‘This little girl needs her brother or sister. Can anyone help?’ And you know what? Someone replied.”

‘This was not in my plan.’: Mom’s difficult time accepting son attending college 13 hours away

“I have grown up and gone to school my whole life with people who basically look like me, think like me and believe the same things I believe, and that’s not the real world.”

‘It was a shock to both of us.’: Couple with 23-year age difference fall in love after losing children on same day

“It seemed like more than just a coincidence. It was fate saying, ‘Here is someone who knows how you are feeling.'”

Grandma’s Dying Wish To See Beloved Granddaughter Wed Comes True

“A few days later, at 5:00 a.m., my phone was buzzing. I turned over in bed and saw my mom was calling. At that moment, I knew exactly what it was.”

‘I went on a date today – with my son.’: Touching way this mom prepares her son to be a ‘perfect gentleman’

“When these sweet little boys grow into almost-men and I watch them escort a girl to the car for the very first time, I hope to beam with pride as they walk around to the passenger side to open her door first.”

Kids’ Work Ethic Is In A Crisis And We, The Parents, Have A Lot To Do With It

Work ethic is similar to a muscle. It can be strengthened with proper training, or weakened with misuse.

How I Learned To Appreciate My Anxiety

“Although anxiety is not absent in my life, it is no longer in control.”

‘He couldn’t stand. His legs were completely limp.’: Mom donates kidney to save medically-complex son

“And so, it began, test after test, specialist after specialist.”

‘You’re moving way too fast. If he loves you, he’ll wait.’ Were we crazy? Maybe. But were we in love? Absolutely!’: Couple move in together after 6 weeks of dating, get married 6 weeks later

“I was pushed into signing up for Match.com by a friend. For 3 weeks, I received message after message from guys who didn’t understand that my kids came first. But one day, I received a message from a man who took the time to read my profile and challenged me to prove that I did, in fact, make the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. Little did I know it would change the course of the rest of my life.”

‘This Mother’s Day I will close my eyes and she will be whole.’: Daughter reflects on ‘gifts of memories’ before mom had dementia

“In my memories, she is laughing with me. She says my name. She walks to me. She laughs at her Mother’s Day card.”

‘Everybody is grieving. That’s why.’ Widow embraces beauty of strangers who supported her during funeral procession

“I’ll be honest, I had to sit back and ask myself why. Why would all these people come out to stand in the hot sun and hold signs and cry for a man that they never had dinner with, never had a beer with, never even had a conversation with. Why would they do that?”

‘I never signed up for this’: Mom of severely autistic daughter thanks the ‘difference-makers’ who ‘deliberately’ step into the world of autism

“They learn to see what others can’t see in your ‘difficult child.’ They love what other people would find unlovable.”

A Letter To My Little Brother Living With A Disability

“Dear Isaac, I know you can’t ever read this but maybe one day I will read it to you. Maybe one day you will understand.”

‘I just couldn’t breathe.’: Wheelchair-bound groom loses himself seeing his ‘heart and soul’ walk down the aisle

“I’ve never seen anything so stunning. My everything that was and everything to be, looking absolutely breathtaking. I couldn’t help but lose myself in emotion.”

‘My mom crossed the border, so I could cross the stage.’: Family details ‘inspiring’ immigration challenges

“Ask me for my papers and I will show you my Bachelor’s.”

‘He said she looked fine, but that my milk probably didn’t have enough calories in it for what she needed. It felt like someone had taken a knife to my chest when he said that’

“I stripped her down to a dry diaper and walked her to the scale. The numbers seemed to take forever to stop scrolling… but when they did, my heart sunk. I gazed down at my sweet Lucy, her skin just sagging off of her.”

‘In the end, Kaylie was able to give the gift of life to 6 people.’: Teen in prom night crash saves lives after her death

“Only 15 minutes after she told me she loved me, she was ejected more than 50 feet from the car that was taking her and her friends to the Senior prom.”

‘My teacher pulled the fire alarm while we were barricading the door’: HERO TEACHER’S quick thinking ‘to get everyone out’ of Santa Fe school shooting

“We had no service to call 911 to let anyone know there was a shooter because our wing is completely almost separate from the rest of the school.”