In conversations about parenthood, much of the discussion ends up focusing on the mother’s role in a child’s life, but fathers carry equal importance. Not only do they often teach their children many hard skills, like how to change a tire, throw a baseball, or tie a tie, but fathers also are critically important in...

Over the last several hundred years, technology has had a profound impact on education. At one point in human history, formal education was only accessible to an elite few, since books were rare and individuals had to travel to educational centers to receive any kind of formal instruction [1]. Technology has significantly expanded access to...

When thirty-four-year-old Andrea Baines was asked to design a special effects shoot as a part of her course at a makeup academy, she decided to use it as an opportunity to explain to others the pain that she and millions of other women go through on a monthly basis.  Baines, who suffers from endometriosis, used...

“Beauty has no size, no skin tone, no hair color, no eye color, no facial features, no muscle definition… for we are all uniquely beautiful and the standards are unreal.” – Anonymous Beauty is one of those societal standards that shouldn’t even be a standard, and yet, here we are. Every decade, a new concept...

The educational system is being swept along in the race for technological advancement and supremacy in nearly every country. I’m not anti-technology, but I’m aware of the disadvantages of the Computer Age. Students don’t engage in interesting practical work in some schools around the world anymore. Some instructors will merely project a virtual lab or...

Let’s get common knowledge out there before anything else. Sisters are straight-up annoying (I know, I am a sister). They act like they are in charge all the time and always try to have their way. Deep down, you love them fiercely and you would go to the ends of the earth to protect them,...

When it comes to knowing the secret to a long life, who better to talk to than a centenarian? Some say it all comes down to eating healthy or exercising daily and others say they’ve just been blessed with good genes. There was even one woman named Susannah Mushatt Jones who claimed eating bacon was...

He’s dealing with indescribable pain, disfigurement, exhaustion, but he would do it all over again without a second thought. The severe burns all over his body could never dampen Derrick Byrd’s love for his family. 8-year-old Mercedes now knows that real-life heroes don’t wear capes. They come in the form of ordinary people, like her...

Little kids get cuts and scrapes all the time- falling off your bike is like a right of passage as a child. In the vast majority of occasions, the injuries from these incidences are minor and require nothing more than a band-aid. Rarely, however, they can escalate. In the case of one little boy, his...

Do you remember Carlos Morales, the father of quadruplets whose wife, Erica, died during childbirth? Well, he’s doing an amazing job as a dad! It’s not Father’s Day but let’s take a look at the incredible job he has done to raise four beautiful children over the years… Carlos was finally able to bring his...

Times have changed, and while most parents will always do their best to bring their kids up properly, not many kids these days are being taught how to handle themselves in the real world, ‘adulting’ as some call it. Kids formerly learned basic life skills such as cooking cleaning, ironing, plumbing, car maintenance, and even...

If there’s one thing that a lot of parents have in common, it’s that they love taking pictures of their children. Their cameras are constantly at the ready to capture all of the candid moments that our kids experience throughout their childhood, so they can have memories to look back on when they’re grown and...