A high school junior's life was turned upside down. But she was determined to not fall into depression. I had a choice to make: Delve into depression or grasp the opportunities I still had to make the most of them. I decided to go for it.
A Louisiana charity for sick kids granted a dying wish for ten-year-old Brennan Daigle who always wanted to become a soldier in the US Army.
An inspiring short based on a true story, tells the tale of an aspiring youth football team that lived on a tiny island in the south of Thailand -- a floating village in the middle of the sea without an inch of soil for practice or play. The kids challenged themselves to think differently and have become a great inspiration, winning youth tournaments year after year.
Thousands of layoff notices have been delivered to teachers nationwide, but one fifth grader has inspired an entire school district to show their appreciation for educators with her unselfish act to try to save the teachers.
6-year old Emily Bear was born to play piano, She has wowed audiences, even recently performing at the White House.
The pint-sized Darth Vader who appeared in a Volkswagen commercial is now a big star after his Super Bowl debut. But, just when you thought the little guy couldn't endear himself anymore, he takes his mask off and reveals he is overcoming a congenital heart condition.
It's not every day that a 13-year-old boy gets a chance to address the United Nations General Assembly. But Felix Finkbeiner is no ordinary teenager. Finkbeiner had one item on his agenda: taking adults to task for their lack of action on planting trees.
A year ago, he was living in an impoverished township in rural South Africa. Now, the 12-year-old is living his dream with Canada's National Ballet School. Little did he know, in the spring of 2009, while performing in a local dance show that he was actually getting a life-altering audition.
6-year old Emily Bear was born to play piano -- and started playing at age two. She has wowed audiences, and recently performed at the White House. She even composes her own music.
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Online social networking and internet marketing sites saved a family whose child has leukemia from financial ruin. So far Aidan Reed, 5, and his family have sold more than 4,500 prints of his crayon and marker drawings of monsters and other creepy characters.
In a year when gifts are down for the biggest US charities, three generous donations were featured on the Today show, including a 5-year-old boy who decided to give old toys and forego new ones on his birthday to help the Ronald McDonald House charity.
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.
Today's teens have more close friends, better relations with parents and are not nearly as sex-crazy as people think. Most teens engage in sex about as often as seniors. Fifty-six per cent say they never engage in sex.
All throughout December, high school students walked to school in the frigid Minnesota temperatures (zero degrees) to symbolically walk in the shoes of thirsty children who have no clean water access near their homes, and to raise money to do something about it. It's called the Wayzata Walk for Water.
A young Oregon girl has started an online movement to feed some unexpected victims of a failing economy, abandoned dogs. Like FreeRice.com, FreeKibble.com, donates a small amount of food every day that you come to the website and click. A Bow-Wow Trivia question appears every day.
9-Year-Old Oregon Boy Steers Big Rig to Safety
This mother's heart melted when her 12-year-old son finally saw her face by using $15,000 high-speed goggles.
Rob Sowell, 17, has always loved children. Even when he was in elementary school, he gave up recesses to watch the smaller kids while their teachers stepped out. But he feels as a teenager that society unfairly views with disfavor the expressing of his love...Rob set out to change things.
A Minnesota girl who had a tenth birthday party planned for Saturday, might have been plenty disappointed because nobody planned to show up, until 300 strangers did.
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