Below are short folktale stories with moral lesson, perfect for sharing with children or friends. 1. Why the cheetah's cheeks ...

My father dropped a bomb on me: He informed me that he had named me as his executrix and that I would inherit everything once he passed. (I hope this is at least another 30 years from now as he ...

I told myself a version of this story in the Rockies ... it as the apex of the six stages of moral development he described. For the youngest children, he thought, moral goodness hinges on ...

A reader wants to know whether she should continue to buy presents if her friends children have never thanked her ...

Seeing something die in front of you is a different experience than calling an exterminator — even though the result is the ...

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them just a moral.” Katherine Rundell’s work is infused with both wonder ...

The goal of godly parenting is not just to raise well-behaved children, but to raise children who know, love, and serve the ...

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In “White Bird,” a long anticipated film about a Jewish girl who is rescued by her classmate in Nazi-occupied France, the ...

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