The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.