For 6-year-old Welles Peterson of Salt Lake City, Utah, empathy for fellow human beings comes second nature. Despite being born with a developmental disorder that affects both his mind and body—he has Down syndrome—love is something Welles is well endowed with.
Welles’s family has always known that he had a knack for giving a little more of himself to those who need it most—so much so that Welles’s kind acts spread online, and the internet now calls him a “baby whisperer.”
