A Small Act of Kindness at the Checkout Changed My Life Forever

The grocery store was packed and tense, the kind of Tuesday evening where everyone just wanted to pay and leave. That’s when a toddler’s crying cut through the noise. He was about three, red-faced and inconsolable, while his exhausted mother stood frozen at the checkout, clearly overwhelmed. Then a woman behind her snapped, loudly telling her to “control her kid.”...