Well, what is essential about you? And who are those who have helped you become the person that you are? Anyone who has ever graduated from a college… - Fred Rogers

Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person — and often many — who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

More and more I’ve come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

An unhurried morning routine at home can help your child get ready — and feel ready — for school without haste or anxiety.

When I think of solitude, I think of an anecdote from With the Door Open: My Experience by the late Danish religious philosopher Johannes Anker Larsen: “The most comprehensive formula for human culture which I know was given by the old peasant who, on his death bed, obtained from his son this one promise: to sit every day for half an hour alone in the best room.