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Prejudice Against Creativity
By Elías Viveros
Every one of us lives in a culture that is different, but I am practically sure that, between all of them, there is a common factor. Most people have a full life based on a seri…
Peace
By Samantha Singh for KidSpirit's Society and the Individual Issue.
Peace. It’s an unusual word in this bizzare time. Some say it means that war is not present, but this word has more depth tha…
Powerful Patience
By Marwa Alalawi in the KidSpirit Power issue.
Flickering streetlights streamed into my aunt’s bedroom as she hushed my cries with gentle strokes, tucking me into a sea of white linen.
It w…
Our World: An Interdependent Web
By Anna Zimmer in the KidSpirit Climate Change issue.
I was not raised in a family where religion played a big role.
I have always known that both my parents were Christians at one point in th…
Out of the Labyrinth
By Sofia Mesh for KidSpirit's Awesome Moments issue.
My life was a confusing labyrinth. I was always overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed and to reach the top because I had been brainwashed…
Origins and Questions of Character Education
by Khalid Husain in KidSpirit's A Lens on Learning issue
“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of …
One Last Letter for You, Santa
By Maria Christian for KidSpirit’s The Word issue.
Dear Santa,
Your identity was revealed to me in a book. The book was written for people three times my age, but I read it because it had the…
On a Question
By Himadri Agarwal for KidSpirit's Happiness Issue.
The other day, I began to ask
people what made them happy.
I heard of dinner dates and bookshelves, of
baby’s laughs and rainbows that cur…
Nobody Wears Tefillin on the Weekend
By Adina Gerwin
On one of the first crisp fall mornings of seventh grade, as I walked into prayer at my Jewish Day School, I noticed strange leather boxes hanging off my friend's arm.
My Safe Harbor
by Celie Johnson for Kidspirit's Numbers & Symbols Issue.
The world is irrelevant. All focus is on one thing: the present; every aspect and every physical thing, feeling, or emotion that creates …