Nobody needs a Band-Aid on the elbow to remedy a bump on the head, a concept that even third graders easily understand. Aimee Scott, a 22-year-old third-grade teacher from Utah, uses a simple Band-Aid example to teach her students the often-misconstrued concept of fairness. She cheerfully explains the method in her viral TikTok video. “On…
VIDEO: This ‘Band-Aid Lesson’ Is the Easiest Way to Teach Kids About Fairness
‘Für Elise’: The Mystery of the World’s Most Popular Piano Piece
I am about to put the lid down on the piano keyboard in my 6th-grade music class when a particularly animated student runs up to me and says excitedly, “Teacher, I can play ‘Für Elise’!” I encourage her to do so, but the result is just the famous first four notes, an E and the…
A Day in April That Some Past Poets Implore Us to Remember
April 7, 2022
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Arts & CultureArts & TraditionBrightDora B. HunterHenry Wadsworth LongfellowLife & TraditionOliver Wendell HolmesRalph Waldo EmersonTraditional Culture
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It was dawn, April 19, 1775, and the British troops who had left Boston earlier that night arrived at Lexington, Massachusetts, in search of caches of arms gathered by American colonialists and hoping to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock. Assembled on Lexington’s town green was a collection of civilians: militia roused to confront the…
VIDEO: Mom Asks the Internet to Finish Late Son’s Last Composition—It’s Just Beautiful
After her 12-year-old son died suddenly in a freak accident, an Australian mom of two found his exercise book in a bag by his favorite spot: the piano. He had started composing a song. With the help of the internet, mom Amanda Brierley from Queensland had the song finished, and performed, by individual musicians and orchestras…
5 Simple Ways to Teach Kids About Money
I was blessed to grow up in a home where my siblings and I were taught wise money habits (would you really expect anything else from Dave Ramsey’s family?). And even though I didn’t always love the lessons on saving and budgeting as a kid, that knowledge set me up for success as an adult….
The St. Vitus Cathedral of Prague
April 6, 2022
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The St. Vitus Cathedral is located on a hill that overlooks the city of Prague. When construction began in the 14th century, Prague was the third-largest city in the world after Rome and Constantinople. In this grand Gothic cathedral, kings have been crowned, married, and buried, and national treasures have been held. As in the…
Two Heartwarming Tales of Healing, Destiny, and Hope
To hear “I love you” as your child’s first words is something most mothers could only dream of. For Tracy Austwick, just to hear any words from her daughter—who doctors had predicted would never speak, following an emergency tracheostomy when born 14 weeks premature—was a miracle. But even more arresting, was to whom—or what—those words…
‘Sir Andrew Davis Conducts Beethoven 9’: Thunderous Applause for Modern Revival
April 5, 2022
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CHICAGO—In 1824, when Beethoven conducted the premier of his “Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125,” the audience went wild with applause, giving the German composer five standing ovations when it ended. On the evening of April 1, when Sir Andrew Davis conducted that symphonic masterwork with the Lyric Opera’s orchestra, a modern audience…
Book Review: ‘The Bookwoman’s Daughter’: A Rugged Woman Inhabits the Kentucky Hills
April 4, 2022
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"Gunnar's Daughter""Rosemary and Pansies""The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek""The Bookwoman's Daughter"Arts & CulturebooksBrightLife & TraditionUncategorized
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It’s 1953. Honey Mary-Angeline Lovett, the daughter of the beloved book woman of Troublesome Creek, finds herself alone. She carries the heritage of her mother, Cussy Mary Lovett, who delivered books to rural families some 17 years earlier under an initiative created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt: the Kentucky Pack Horse Librarian Project. She also…
Behind Every Masculine Man Is a Feminine Woman
“Where are all the good men?” is a question you’ve probably heard asked a time or two in your life. Perhaps you’ve even uttered it yourself. Instead of the manly, John Wayne-types running around, we get boys wearing tight, ill-fighting pants and flowered blouses, sweeping their long hair up into a man-bun adorned with a scrunchie….
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