{"id":193932,"date":"2018-12-14T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=193932"},"modified":"2018-12-14T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:44:09","slug":"first-lady-spreads-anti-bullying-message-at-kids-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/14\/first-lady-spreads-anti-bullying-message-at-kids-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"First lady spreads anti bullying message at kids’ hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melania Trump spread her anti-bullying message on an annual Christmas season visit to a Washington children’s hospital on Thursday, reading a story about a Christmas ornament named Oliver who is bullied by other ornaments in a family’s collection. (File Photo<\/a>: flotus\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Melania Trump spread her anti-bullying message on an annual Christmas season visit to a Washington children’s hospital on Thursday, reading a story about a Christmas ornament named Oliver who is bullied by other ornaments in a family’s collection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year,\u201d the first lady said after she finished reading \u201cOliver the Ornament\u201d at Children’s National Health System. The author, Todd Zimmerman, sat a few feet away.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Trump launched an initiative earlier this year to teach kindness to children, naming it Be Best.<\/p>\n

Zimmerman thanked the first lady \u201cfrom the bottom of my heart\u201d for inviting him to be part of the visit, an annual tradition that dates to first lady Bess Truman, who served in the role from the mid-1940s to 1953.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is such an honour and I’m humbled by your kindness,\u201d Zimmerman added. \u201cI also want to thank you for everything you do to promote kindness through your Be Best foundation and all of your daily activities. It’s that same type of kindness that we’re trying to promote with ‘Oliver the Ornament’ and it’s that same message that I hope all of you receive this Christmas season and throughout the entire year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Trump is using the initiative to encourage children and young people to be kind online.<\/p>\n

The first lady recently told ABC News during an interview in which she promoted Be Best that she could be \u201cthe most bullied person\u201d in the world, judging by \u201cwhat people are saying about me.\u201d Critics have pointed out that her husband, President Donald Trump, routinely mocks people on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Before taking a seat in front of a towering Christmas tree in the hospital’s atrium, Mrs. Trump toured part of the neonatal intensive care unit and met with three families and children who had been treated there after they were born prematurely at 24 weeks.<\/p>\n

The two boys and one girl, ages 16 months to 6 years old, each weighed about 1 pound (0.45 kilograms) at birth.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Trump sat with the families while the children played and listened as Nikki Watkinson told the story of her son Grayson’s early delivery in her husband’s truck during a snowstorm.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will have an incredible story to tell him,\u201d the first lady replied.<\/p>\n

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