How to start your kids off with a sense of generosity and responsibility: Help them help others, starting in toddlerhood.This follicularly blessed three year old decided to donate her pigtails to children with cancer, and her parents made a video about it.

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Here's what they had to say:

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"What Emily did, that was most meaningful to us…was that Emily was willing to give something that she had a lot of, something that could be of great meaning to another person. What we hope though, is that as Emily matures she will learn to make her own selfless decisions that inspire and bring hope, even if there is a cost."

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While Emily probably wouldn't have come up with this idea on her own, she seems to get the gist pretty well. And unlike her American Girl doll, her hair will grow back.