Tavia Wade is a mom to 5-year-old twin girls and a 17-month old Tavia Wade Tavia Wade anxiously anticipated the day she would drop off her 5-year-old twins for their first day of kindergarten.

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A tearful mom who dropped off her kids at kindergarten received the best encouragement from a teacher. “She was so warm and welcoming,” Tavia Wade, a mother of three in Utah, tells TODAY.com. Wade ...