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Mieke Smith 4/26/21 Mieke Smith 4/26/21

At age 7, my daughter has a joy in her Brown skin that I still have to work for

By Raakhee Mirchandani for The Today Show

My 7-year-old daughter Satya takes up a lot of space in the world. Literally. Her stuff is everywhere.

Every surface of the apartment is covered in the things that fill her life: notebooks, my vintage copies of "The Baby-Sitters Club,"squishies, scrunchies and paradindis. Bindis share space with slime and graphic novels, side by side, all of them equal parts of what this little girl is made of.

Mieke Smith 1/31/17 Mieke Smith 1/31/17

'Be thankful': 12-year-old shows strength, courage during grueling cancer journey

By Raakhee Mirchandani for Today Show Parents

Briana Lopez doesn’t know what her favorite TV show is, but she knows how to spell petechiae. That’s what happens when you’re diagnosed with cancer at just 11-years-old.