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Little Happier: Have You Ever Felt Like the Little Red Hen?

Jul 27, 2026 · 5 min · YouTube

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0:02Lemonader.
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0:06I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Happier.
0:09As I have mentioned many times, I love proverbs, aphorisms, Zen Koans, paradoxes, fables, and I love a traditional teaching story.
0:20Here is one of my favorites and one that I have known since I was a very young girl and one that I regularly invoke in conversations with other people.
0:31It is the story of the little red hen.
0:35The little red hen is a traditional folktale that's believed to have come originally from Russia.
0:40The first known written version was collected by the American author Mary Mabes Dodge and published in St.
0:46Nicholas Magazine in 1874.
0:49It has been told and retold many times and has been published in many classic picture books.
0:56I know that I have at least two versions on my shelf right now.
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