"I was honest once, and it felt really good. If you're not honest, you just look bad," says Brittani, age 6.
Once?
"Honesty is important because people have to trust you to be a friend," says Natalie, 9. "You should be honest so people will ...
"Because they think they have more thinking in their head," says Patrick, age 5.
Too much of the wrong kind of thinking in our head is called worry. Lewis and Faye Copeland tell the story of a man who was offered a job to do all the worrying for...
"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's, I mean," wrote Mark Twain.
If you're reduced to human resources, there's wisdom as well as wit in Twain's quip. Severe personal adversity has a way of undoing us. The self-...
"God waits until he gets his turn," says Savannah, age 5.
His turn?
Yikes! This sounds like something my elementary school principal might have said when I was called to his office.
God has patience with us "by waiting in line," says Ashton, 5...
Kids' answers fall into three categories: the smilers, the hopeful and the performers. I call the first group the smilers because Ashley, 9, says: "Yes!! You will definitely go to heaven if you are a Christian and sin!"
The hopeful are ...
"It is real important to be brave so you are not afraid to fight boys," says Chelsea, age 6. Well, before you battle boys, you'll have to battle Rebecca, 5, because she defines courage as: "You don't want to hit anybody."
Courage can be standing...
