NEW YORK--You have to love the Big Apple. I'm here covering the Come Out and Play Festival, a three-day celebration of street and live-action role-playing games, where players might find themselves ...

Kindness. That’s a word we don’t hear a lot these days. Perhaps it seems antiquated in our competitive, social-media-infused, politically contentious culture—reserved for fools and chumps, not for ...

Kind Words is the warm hug you needed from a friend after a long day, it’s the “I’m proud of you” that you needed to hear, but for whatever reason, never did. It’s a surprising bit of warmth, and it ...

Kindness is sometimes dismissed as a simplistic virtue comprised of “being nice.” But how do kids think about kindness—and could understanding kindness help us to teach and promote kindness more ...

Have you ever acted kindly when you really didn’t want to? And if you forced yourself to anyway, was it merely because you thought you should? That you’d feel guilty or ashamed if you didn’t act, or ...

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. When I began ...

Teenager Abby Jones had an idea for something meaningful to do during the pandemic: “She started filling jars with dried rosebuds and glitter—little fairy jars for kids in the neighborhood to find,” ...