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What 7-year-olds know about love that adults forget
A classroom full of relationship experts, an art surprise, and a Hollywood heart-to-heart.
Greg Sullivan
October 13, 2026 • Est. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold
Today on The Daily GOOD, we get marriage advice from a room full of 7-year-olds, and I'm not saying it's better than most of the advice I've heard from adults, but I'm not NOT saying that. Then, the most famous night sky in art reveals something nobody noticed before, and Chris Hemsworth shares sobering news about his health. A little love, a little mystery, and a little perspective.
Culture
The snacks were apparently a major concern.
Marriage is complicated. Love, communication, compromise. People spend years figuring it out, sometimes with help from very expensive professionals. But what if we've been consulting the wrong experts? What if the answers have been sitting in a second-grade classroom this whole time?
Teacher Klarissa Trevino was getting married and wanted to include her students in the celebration so she handed out worksheets asking them to share their best marriage advice. The responses were equal parts adorable, surprisingly wise, and hilariously specific.
As Mark Wales reports, the kids had strong opinions about romance, kindness, and how to treat your spouse. One particularly practical suggestion? "Do not eat each other’s snacks." Frankly, that one belongs in the vows.
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GOOD reader Craig Frank shares a beautiful find from Gurre, Denmark, where the porcini mushroom season is winding down after a bumper year. These prized wild mushrooms are a forager's dream. Nice haul, Craig!
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Which second-grade subject would give you the most trouble if you had to take a test today?No phones, no calculators, and the teacher is watching. |
Yesterday’s Results
In yesterday’s issue, we shared a few animal stories, including a video of a very friendly crow.
And we asked: Which of these animals can remember a human face for years and warn others about someone it considers dangerous? A whopping 85.0% of you knew it was the crow.
Fox (7.7%)
Crow (85.0%) 🏆
Squirrel (2.8%)
Raccoon (4.5%)
GOOD reader LPTJude knows their crows. “Crows are very interactive and have been known to bring gifts to humans who have helped them.”
Pop Culture | Courtesy of Upworthy
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In 125 years, millions of people have looked at this painting. No one really saw it until recently. | ||
Van Gogh saw something it took scientists another 100 years to see. | ||
By Upworthy Staff | ||
Vincent van Gogh never got to enjoy his own historic success as an artist. Van Gogh died in 1890 at the age of 37 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France after shooting himself in the chest with a revolver. It was a tragic end to a turbulent life marked by mental instability and severe self-doubt. | ||
According to the Van Gogh Museum, in a letter to his brother Theo in 1890, just a couple of weeks before his death, Van Gogh wrote, “…my life, is attacked at the very root, my step also is faltering.” The man was struggling and exhausted. The high standards he had set for himself and his art were taking a toll. He was unsure about his future and, up to this point, had not received much recognition for his work and thought himself a failure “as a man and as an artist.” | ||
His most well-known work, Starry Night, was famously painted while Van Gogh was staying in an asylum in France 1889 after he mutilated his ear during a psychotic episode. According to the Van Gogh Museum, though, this may not be the full story. While it is widely agreed that Van Gogh did in fact cut off his own ear, the museum notes that it was because of a fight between Van Gogh and Paul Gaugin, the artist he had been working for in Aries, that led to the violent explosion that highlighted his deteriorating mental state. | ||
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Health
The APOE4 gene runs in both sides of his family.
While filming his National Geographic series "Limitless," Chris Hemsworth found out something no amount of hammer-swinging could fix: he carries two copies of the APOE4 gene, one from each parent, which puts him at significantly elevated risk of developing Alzheimer's. Longevity doctor Peter Attia kept the result off camera at first, giving Hemsworth room to sit with it.
You'd expect the guy who plays a literal god to respond with a punishing new regimen. He didn't. The change he made was quieter, and by his own account, harder. "I don't want to be in a sprint anymore," he said, describing a deliberate pivot away from the nonstop pace he'd been living. He started building stillness and solitude into his days, treating stress and cortisol as the real threat to his brain.
Hemsworth reframed the news as "a realization of the fragility of everything, but also the beauty of things" and started rethinking how he spends time with his family. He's not retiring, for the record. Thor's still swinging back in Avengers: Doomsday.
On October 13, 1958, a small bear from darkest Peru made his literary debut in Michael Bond's A Bear Called Paddington. Found alone at London's Paddington Station with a suitcase, a fondness for marmalade, and a note asking someone to look after him, the polite little bear was taken in by the Brown family. Their lives would never be quite the same.
Bond got the idea after buying a lonely teddy bear from a department store shelf as a Christmas present for his wife. From that simple beginning came dozens of books, television shows, blockbuster movies, and one of the most beloved characters in children's literature. Paddington's adventures have always been about more than sticky sandwiches and accidental disasters. At their heart is a wonderfully simple idea: When you meet someone who is different, far from home, and in need of kindness, make room for them. Preferably with a sandwich.
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Until tomorrow, has anyone tried a marmalade sandwich? Is it as good as it sounds, or is it like Turkish Delight, which is, in my experience, not a delight at all?