Many new parents are given conflicting advice. The baby should sleep on their stomach… wait no, the back or… the side? The baby should sleep with the mother, no, in their own crib, no, in their own room. Sometimes the advice comes from a trusted place, like a doctor or a family member. Most of...
A woman lost her mother, husband, and daughter to a car accident. Seven years later, she slowly succeeded in piecing her life back together and moved to a new city. But every year on the death anniversary, she would drive seven hours to visit the graves. However, one friend decided to interrupt this routine when...
Seven-year-old Jurnee Hoffmeyer came home crying with her haircut. Her father, Jimmy Hoffmeyer, was appalled. This was the second “haircut” Jurnee received in two days. A classmate used scissors to snip her hair into a “one side cute” on the school bus. After Jimmy complained to the principal and brought Jurnee to a salon for...
Jennifer Lake was an average 16-year-old high school student in Idaho when she received a devastating diagnosis. Previously, the severe headaches had come from nowhere, but Jennifer had a feeling there was something wrong. Then an MRI showed a tumor on her brain. But the surprises weren’t over. She became pregnant and made the choice...
After Jessica Allen gave birth to two healthy sons, she decided to become a surrogate mom. With a five-year-old and a six-month baby at home, it was a good way to earn money (as in $30,000) while being a stay-at-home mother and helping someone else have children of their own. So she carried a baby...
Divorce is a difficult and draining phase of life for anyone to pass through, but what’s even harder is learning to co-parent amicably after separating. The transition from couple to divorced co-parents is not always as seamless as we assume it to be. Endless negotiations, mediation, blurred lines about the children’s future, and antagonistic emotions...
Do you think mom’s today are too nice? While we don’t need malicious parenting, are some parents forgetting the importance of teaching tough love? Many new age parents are taking on opposite parenting traits that they were raised with. It’s likely that if you grew up with strict parents who were unreasonable, made you complete...
Mishka Peart was driving through a hectic intersection in Queens when she noticed a 6-year-old girl wandering alone. She clutched two bags filled with her clothes. A surgical mask covered her face when Peart pulled over to investigate. She was shocked to learn a mother had decided to abandon her daughter. “I asked her where she was...
Gen Z and Boomer finally agree on something: Millennials are the worst. Millennials have learned to ignore Boomer retorts about how “lazy and entitled” their generation is. Not to mention the “they’ll be able to buy a house if they’d stop with their avocado toast and expensive coffees.” Not to mention the “you kids have...
Arabella Gibbons, 22, has grown up with half-siblings. With her firsthand experiences, she believes that people should not undervalue half-sibling relationships, according to her interview with the Guardian. “I remember telling a story about my brother in school when I was eight, and the teacher said, ‘Now tell the truth, he’s not your brother, he’s...
“Never accept rides from strangers” used to be a common safety hack. But with rideshare apps, riding with strangers has become normal nowadays. That doesn’t mean it’s entirely safe. In July 2022, Uber made headlines for being the subject of 550 sexual assault and attack allegations. Misconduct, assault, rape, and even murder have occurred through...
Willie Mae Truesdale heard a loud explosion coming from her kitchen. When she went to investigate, she found her glass oven door in pieces all over the floor. “It was shocking and you had to really see it to believe it,” she explained. “It was like what in the world. Glass shattered, glass was out...
