Girl and her Great-grandfather Share Bond of Thanks That Runs Both Ways

Keke, a wiry girl of 11, and her great-grandfather, Tony Bruce have been together since she was two months old. At the time, people told him he was too old to take care of the girl, whose mother, then 16, was not able to raise her. Today, they ride buses every day together for more than 3 hours, traveling to her school and to his job helping people at a non-profit group.

By Jeanne Goddard

27 November 39 Views

Beautiful Plus-Sized Models

Here is a featured slideshow of lovely and famous plus-sized models. One has written a book about her love/hate and finally triumphant relationship with the fashion industry -- real encouragement for real women.

By Linda Williams

15 September 34 Views

The Youngest Faces in Philanthropy

Zach Bonner, who walked to Washinton D.C. for the homeless, is just a kid. At 11, he's one of cadre of child philanthropists who seem to be growing in number and visibility as corporations and colleges reward their efforts to help others. They have become high-profile CEOs of their own nonprofit groups.

By Jeanne Goddard

15 July 39 Views

7-Year-old Autistic Girl Belts out National Anthem for Huge Crowds

Doctors told parents of autistic child that she may never learn to speak. But music unlocked the door, when, at age five, she heard the National Anthem. Now she opens major sporting events performing her pitch-perfect rendition of the song.

By Jeanne Goddard

23 September 40 Views

12 Year Old Artist Prodigy Paints Pictures of God (Video)

CNN reported on a child artist prodigy who, despite being raised in an athesitic home, describes her vivid visions from the age of four as coming from God.

By Jeanne Goddard

10 May 40 Views

Violin Prodigy Plays for Haiti (Video)

Florida violinist Kahane is a brilliant musician at only eight-years-old. She has performed at charity events in the past, but when she heard the devastating earthquake in Haiti had destroyed a music school and crushed the violinist who'd founded it, she wanted to help. She started writing letters to famous violinists asking for money to rebuild the school and instruments to fill it.

By Jeanne Goddard

11 April 42 Views

15-Year-Olds Plant Garden in One of the Worst Neighborhoods in Detroit

Despite her own struggles, one teen has stepped up to help revitalize Detroit. She led a group of volunteers to plant and rebuild in an abandoned lot. Eventually they will donate the food grown here.

By Jeanne Goddard

01 July 39 Views

Child's Lemonade Fund-Raiser Marks 10 Years, $30 Million for Cancer

More than 10,000 volunteers hosted lemonade stands over the weekend to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a 4-year-old who first raised $2,000 for pediatric cancer while she was being treated for neuroblastoma.

By Jeanne Goddard

15 June 33 Views

Bird Drawings by Young Girl Raise $60,000 for Gulf Wildlife Rescue

Saddened by what she imagined the oil spill was doing to wildlife near her family's summer home on the Gulf coast, an 11-year-old began creating pictures of birds to raise money for rescue operations, and claims to have raised $60,000 so far.

By Jeanne Goddard

08 June 34 Views

Autistic Honors Student Delivers Stirring Graduation Speech

As a poster boy for perseverance, 18-year-old Eric Duquette, who didn't speak until the age of five, but now is fluent in Spanish, inspired his high school classmates last week when he delivered a stirring commencement speech.

By Jeanne Goddard

20 June 33 Views

'Problem Kids' Show Quilting Talents at Alternative School

A tough 17 year old got kicked out of schoolbut now he knows how to make a quilt. In fact, he and other teens from an alternative school that serves students expelled from their regular campus or who ran into trouble with the law swept a youth competition at the San Mateo County Fair with their quilt-making abilities.

By Mariea Powell

20 June 41 Views

High School Sings Away Hate Group

When the Kansas Hate group known at the Westboro Baptist Church announced it would picket a Bay Area School and Jewish Institutions, students at Gunn High School decided they could not sit by quietly. They organized a Love-in.

By Jeanne Goddard

03 April 42 Views

Girls Getting Meaner? Myth Busted by 40-Year Positive Trend

News reports and inflamed commentary that invoke recent incidents as evidence of a modern epidemic of "mean girls" ignore real positive trends in girl crime. Every reliable measure shows that violence by girls has been plummeting for 40 years.

By Jay Lehman aka JAG

04 April 35 Views

Adopted Russian Orphan Raises $60,000 to Build Playground Back Home

Alex Griffith, 16, was adopted as a baby from a Krasnoyarsk, Russia, hospital. Now, he's raised more than $60,000 to design and build a playground for the Krasnoyarsk orphans remaining.

By Jeanne Goddard

15 April 42 Views

Teen Turns Escape From Pain into Charity for Kids

16-year-old Mackenzie escapes from severe pain through the reading of books. Her painful disease led her to want to help others kids with their own escape from -- from childhood abuse or health problems. Her charity, Sheltering Books, which has collected and donated 38,000 books for homeless and abused kids since 2007.

By Jeanne Goddard

21 April 33 Views