At first, Ayah Lundt was a typical, healthy baby. She was born at 8.3 pounds. At six months, she crawled and tried new foods. However, at 9 months of age, her development hit a steep decline. She stopped lifting her head, clapping, or sitting on her own. Whenever she tried to crawl or stand up,...
Kids are like sponges—they are always repeating what they hear and see as they learn how to fit in with their surroundings. Ask any mom. People usually think of a child’s growth in terms of reaching milestones, learning colors, or counting to 10. But experts have found that emotional intelligence may be just as important,...
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...
The loss of a child is an indescribable pain. I could not imagine what it must feel like to have your baby pass before you do. Although, for this military family, their six-month-old baby boy passed away. And then, as if any more could possibly go wrong, their infant son’s ashes were stolen. Moving their...
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...
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...
As a child, you may have had a lemonade stand. Or, you likely knew a kid in your neighborhood who ran one. You probably wanted to save up for a new bike or to have money to spend on sweets at the store. Nonetheless, it’s unlikely you started your lemonade to fund brain surgeries. For...
More and more people started working from home. For most, this isn’t an ideal situation. It’s hard to maintain a work-life balance when both occur in the same place, especially when the home environment is distracting. Makeshift home offices could be in the guest room to the kitchen table, often with bored kids running around....
Day care centers are supposed to be a safe place for children while their parents are at work. Well, at least, one hopes so. An unsuspecting mother who left her then 1-year-old son at their usual day care was left absolutely horrified when she arrived to pick her son up. This story is a blunt...
The father of an adolescent child was restrained in an Ohio courtroom, relentlessly punching the man accused of murdering his son. Desean Brown 22-year-old Desean Brown faces two murder charges after he allegedly stabbed 29-year-old Nyteisha Lattimore, the mother of the son he also allegedly murdered. According to reports Brown allegedly threw the 3-year-old into...
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...
Teenagers have a mind of their own. Their notorious habit is not listening to the instructions of their parents, especially when it comes to cleaning their rooms. One mother had enough of repeating her instructions, and she decided to take matters into her own hands. So, she packed her children’s things into refuse bags and...
