What kids know: Helping makes us happy

A reminder from the midst of my 10-year-old daughter’s anxiety crisis that helping other people really does help us

Amanda Hirsch

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Kids stand side by side
Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash

My daughter came home from sleep-away camp swearing she’d never go again. She missed us too much, she said. She cried every day. “I even cried in the POOL,” she told us, which is extra heartbreaking, because…

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Amanda Hirsch

I write about raising women's voices, power, and motherhood.