“A while ago, I was at the checkout of a large store with my two toddlers (would have been around 2 and 4 then) who were tired and just doing the challenging toddler thing. I was doing everything I could to keep the chaos restrained, and I was exhausted. A random shopper who passed me and said as she went by, ‘Well done for staying so calm. I would have lost it by now. You’re doing great.’ I nearly cried, it was exceptional to have a stranger acknowledge how hard it is and to make me feel like I’m not the shitty parent that most of the time I feel like I am. So, say nice things, not because you have to, but because you can. You never know the difference it might make to someone.” —Comments_Wyoming “I lived in the NYC area for three years, and in Manhattan, I would always hold doors open for people. Almost all the time, they looked SHOCKED that someone was doing that for them!” —Mrshaydee
