Photo of 8-year-old Wichita boy helping classmate with autism goes viral

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Those boys found each other on the first day of school.

That friendship was meant to be.

My son’s first grade teacher greeted me in tears at his first parent teacher conference. I was worried for a minute. Then she started telling me about how my son walked to recess every day with Katie, a fairly profoundly disabled child in his class.

He would walk Katie to the swing set, help her onto her swing, get her going, and then run off to play kickball.

And then he would come back every few minutes and give her a gentle push, until recess was over and he walked her inside.

By the end of that conference, we were all bawling.

Would love to see Christian’s mom after his first conference!