This month is father’s day, and many of us are getting ready to celebrate our dads or the father figures in our lives. It is an important celebration for anyone lucky enough to have a great father. This day, however, makes you stop for a moment and think: What makes a good dad? So let’s...
When someone offers a service for free, any normal person keeps their demands pretty low. After all, you’re not paying them; they are providing you a service in their spare time and of their own free will. That’s what makes this mom’s texts to a woman offering free swimming lessons so incredibly outrageous. (1) Mom’s...
Imagine picking your child up from daycare only to discover a note on baby’s stomach? Child Care is obviously one of the most important things to any parent. We all want the best for our babies because we love them. Even though they can be particularly precocious sometimes, it can be tough to find good...
When you hear the words “large family”, how many children do you imagine? Four? Six? Ten? Well, for Mariam Nabatanzi, large equals 44 children. You read that correctly. She did not set out to have so many children, however, she suffers from a rare medical condition that meant she had several rounds of multiples. This...
Having a baby is a traumatic experience for the female no matter how she gives birth. That physical trauma is the same whether or not the baby is alive when born. Despite having to go through the same physical changes and traumas that mothers who give birth to live babies, those who have stillborns do...
This man was born with a rare condition that meant his limbs didn’t grow properly. With no arms or legs, his life has certainly been anything but conventional. Still, that hasn’t stopped him from being a loving and effective father to his two daughters. Abandoned by their mother, this family has proven that love knows...
“If you have the means to help someone, then you should.” This is what young Nocholas’s mom taught him. He took her lesson to heart and stepped in to help a woman who was trying to get to the hospital to see her mom. He didn’t have much himself, but he used what he did...
Last month, a student at Hawthorne Academy Highschool in North Carolina sexually assaulted a female classmate. Unlike many victims of sexual assault, the 15-year-old girl reported the assault to school officials, who also got the local authorities involved. A couple of days later, the school suspended her. This is her story. (1) Highschool Suspends Sexual...
Typically when a story begins with someone falling off of a very high cliff, the ending is a tragic one. In this miraculous case, however, the ending is quite the opposite. Earlier this month a four-year-old boy fell from a 70-foot cliff while hiking with his family. Incredibly, he came out on the other side...
A man’s wife is dying from tragic bone cancer. This is of course a difficult situation, especially while they are navigating through it with their seven-year-old daughter. The father originally thought that his daughter would attend her mother’s funeral until he received some pushback from the rest of the family. He wrote to an advice...
Have you ever had lice? I did once when I was a kid and let me tell you – it is not fun. This is why I can hardly imagine how horrible it must have been for this teen girl whose head was so full of lice, they were crawling around her body. That’s right:...
There is something about grandparents’ wisdom that speaks volumes. You can be a wide-eyed grandchild or a jaded adult – grandparents can cut through anything with their life experience and truths. The open letter we’re sharing with you today is from a grandfather to his grandchildren about childhood. However, we believe adults will even gain...
