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Apr 25, 2009

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." --John W. Whitehead

Raising Kids Who Care

John Holland-McCowan was sitting on a beach in Hawaii with his parents and his baby brother, Harrison, happily playing with coconuts and driftwood. "I'm so lucky," the almost-five-year-old suddenly announced. "I have all these toys to play with and all my toys at home." His startled parents replied that he was indeed lucky, since a lot of kids didn't have any toys at all. "That's when he started to cry," recalls his mother, Anne. So begins this Reader's Digest article that offers a glimpse of five families and the compassionate kids they raised.