When Adhara Pérez was three, she was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. She experienced severe bullying by her peers but in therapy, her parents learned she had a higher IQ than Albert Einstein. With her intelligence, Adhara graduated elementary school at five years of age, middle school by six, and high school at eight. Not even...
Many people don’t like spiders, to put it mildly. The spotting of a spider can cause chaos as everyone tries to kill it. But put down the shoe and bug spray for a moment. Entomologists advise people to never kill a spider in their home because these creatures are “an important part of nature and...
In 1932, carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen from Denmark began creating wooden bricks as toys for his sons. He had no idea he was about to found a toy empire. In 1949, Christiansen and his son and business partner Godtfred Kirk Christiansen started to make the bricks from plastic and sold them under the name Automatic...
Former model Turia Pitt was running a marathon in Australia when she got trapped in a bush fire. She got severe burns on 65% of her body and her doctors weren’t sure if she would survive. At that point, her boyfriend, Michael Hoskin quit his job as a police officer to take care of her...
Fast and flashy cars have long been associated with wealth and masculinity. But there’s also a common stereotype that men with sports cars are insecure about the size of their manhood. So a group of psychologists (all of which were men) decided to test the theory. The new preprint study has not been peer-reviewed but...
Sisters hold a special place in their families. They may borrow clothes without permission, tease the other kids, tattle to the parents, and hog the bathroom. But they are often the ones keeping the family together. They are present in good times and bad, bringing their unwavering honesty and loyalty. People who have good relationships...
When talking about bullying in schools, most people think about students targeting other students. However, sometimes teachers are the bullies. While most teachers are caring and responsible, some use their power to ridicule or manipulate their pupils. However, this kind of emotional and verbal bullying is difficult to pinpoint, especially if the child doesn’t talk...
Toys have always been synonymous with children, and it is almost impossible to find an adult who did not play make-believe games with a toy while growing up. Unlike today when you can find stores full to the brim with all kinds of toys, the 1980s were a different time. Let’s forget about today’s news,...
Every parent would be upset when they discover their child is being bullied at school, but how do parents react when they learn that their kids, in fact, are the bullies? Bullying is a problem that affects millions of students of all races and socioeconomic classes, and despite governmental and activist efforts to curb this vice, it remains...
Truth is truly stranger than fiction. In Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, a mother arrived at her son’s wedding. She hadn’t met the bride in person before, only over the phone. But she realized the bride had a birthmark on her hand, the same one her young daughter had before she went missing years ago. In...
It takes a village to raise a child, but some parents have to do it solo. When Richard Johnson became a father in 2015, he had no idea that his partner would leave him and their daughter, Persephone. He rose to the occasion and began to learn everything he could about parenting, including joining a...
It’s like a horrible joke. His parents abandoned him as an infant because of how he looked. However, Jono Lancaster has become a renowned speaker and activist. He encourages people all over the world to use positivity to fight through diseases and challenges. He famously has Treacher Collins syndrome, which is a rare disorder that...
