Every soon-to-be parent wants the same thing: to have a happy, healthy baby. News that your child is to be born with any type of physical or mental disability is difficult to hear. The tests, surgeries, and medical challenges that you and your child face are one thing, perhaps the more challenging are the emotional...

Julie Hambleton
Freelance Writer
Julie Hambleton has a BSc in Food and Nutrition from the Western University, Canada, is a former certified personal trainer and a competitive runner. Julie loves food, culture, and health, and enjoys sharing her knowledge to help others make positive changes and live healthier lives.
In 2019, Reddam House Private School, located in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, officially banned iPads and went back to regular textbooks. The school has developed a bring-your-own-device policy with a preference for laptops. Reddam House Private School has used iPads for e-textbooks for the past five years. The school says that teachers agree with the decision...
Relationships can be wonderful and fulfilling parts of our lives. They also, however, can be very, very challenging. They are a constant balancing act between your needs and those of your partner. On top of that, you are trying to navigate your two separate lives, together. Different careers, daily routines, other personal obligations like friends...
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have been making the headlines pretty frequently since they skyrocketed to stardom on That 70s Show back in the 90s and early 2000s. First, it was for their beautiful love story and for being everyone’s #RelationshipGoals. Now, more often than not, it’s for their parenting style. Most recently, the couple...
In a recent episode of their podcast, influencer Laura Henshaw made a shocking confession about how often she washes her bra. She admitted to only washing it once a month, which left her co-host and the internet divided on the topic. This revelation has sparked a debate on how often women should wash their bras...
A seemingly ordinary wedding dress fitting turned into a mind-bending experience for one woman, leaving social media users astounded and horrified. The surreal photo, capturing a bizarre reflection glitch, has circulated widely, drawing comparisons to the dystopian TV show “Black Mirror.” With countless online users unable to wrap their heads around the optical illusion, the...
A mother of a baby boy who suffers from eczema recently came under fire for her use of bleach baths to help treat her son’s skin condition. She shared a video to her social media to explain bleach baths and why they are beneficial for eczema rather than something scary and harmful. (1) Mom Explains...
There is a lot of pressure on women to look “perfect” – there always has been. For some, these pressures lead to extreme lengths to achieve this impossible beauty standard. Some women go on crazy diets, others intense gym programs, and others extensive skincare regimens. Others, however, go the route of cosmetic surgery. Like anything,...
Often friends give each other nicknames. They can be for fun and refer to a happy or funny memory. They can also simply be short-forms to make it faster to say a name: Josephine becomes “Jo,” and Robert becomes “Rob.” For many immigrant or indigenous peoples, however, shortening comes from other people not being able...
Plenty of moms enjoy a glass of wine or two to wind down and relax at night. In today’s culture, they are even, in a way, celebrated for it. Marijuana though? This gets a much more mixed reaction. This mom smokes weed after her kids go to bed. She says it’s her “glass of wine”...
The word family is a loaded one. For some, it’s loaded with positivity. For most, it’s probably a bit of a mixed bag. There are many people, however, for whom family brings up a lot of negative emotion. The thing is, as much as we like to romanticize the idea of family, the reality is...
Postpartum or postnatal depression affects one in every 10 women within a year of giving birth. (1) This father, who lost his wife to the illness, is spreading awareness of the disease to encourage others to get help before it’s too late. (2) Man Tragically Loses Wife to Postnatal Depression After carrying a child for...