My Daughter Bought Sneakers for a Classmate and the Next Day the School Called Me in Urgently

Children are sometimes better than adults at seeing need without needing to understand its context. Emma had looked at Caleb’s shoes and seen tape over holes, and she had not wondered about the economics of his household or the reasons behind the disrepair. She had simply seen a boy whose shoes were broken and decided to fix the problem herself.

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