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Grandparents, teachers and even bus drivers can build resilient kids

Grandparents bring "The Gruffalo" to life by doing different voices. They take you to visit lemurs at the zoo. They show you how to grow green onions on the windowsill. And they let you bite into every cookie in the tin when you can't decide which one you want.

Grandparents, teachers and even bus drivers can build resilient kids

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Tiny house villages are increasingly responding to the homeless crisis in America’s fast-growing cities

As economic and demographic growth increasingly coexists with poverty and homelessness, resident-led alternatives to housing are supporting communities left behind.

  • Tiny house villages have quadrupled from 34 in 2019 to 123 in 2024.
  • Charlotte, North Carolina, saw homeless population rise from 444 to over 2,018 in 2025.
  • Dignity Village in Portland, Oregon, evolved from an encampment in 2000.

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