A week ago, one mother received a horrifying phone call: “Your child is missing. We’ve shut down the terminal. We don’t know where she is.” Monica Gilliam had arranged for her 12-year-old daughter Kimber to fly in an American Airlines flight from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Miami, Florida, to visit her father. But an hour after...
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Many of us have experienced or heard of a trip to the doctor’s room where the diagnosis was incorrect. That said, it is not every day that one hears about a doctor being wrong about a baby’s gender post-birth. You are obviously wondering how on earth anyone could make that sort of error, I mean,...
Last year, a mother captured an upsetting incident on camera: An elementary principal hitting her 6-year-old daughter with a wooden paddle. “The hatred with which she hit my daughter, I mean it was a hatred that, really I’ve never hit my daughter like she hit her,” the mother said. “I had never hit her.” The...
Airport employees deal with a lot during their shifts. From delays and cancellations to angry customers, lost luggage, and missed flights. What they likely don’t deal with every day is human sex trafficking rings. This American Airlines employee is a hero and still deserves some recognition, even today, after she rescued two young girls from...
Only the bravest young man would show up at her doorstep to take her to prom. A couple in Michigan have finally welcomed their first female child after having a herd of 14 boys. Jay and Kateri Schwandt welcomed Maggie Jayne on Thursday, November 5. [1] The princess weighed all of 7 lbs., 8 oz.,...
Joseph Cantu is living through a parent’s nightmare. He’s a homeless father, abandoned by his spouse, and living out of a van with five kids. All he has is his faith and the hope his kids won’t remember this entire experience. Homeless father with Five Children It all began with one stroke of bad luck...
Over the decades, education curriculums have changed quite a bit. People might even argue that some have been watered down. But when it comes to giving students’ grades, should they be given a free pass when the work hasn’t been done? Giving zeroes to students landed one teacher in hot water A former teacher of...
Every now and then, a story so incredibly baffling pops up. This is most definitely one of them! What makes this story so ridiculous is that it’s about a boy being charged for picking a flower. And, to make it even more insane, is that he is only six years old! How could this happen?...
Stacy and Babajide, a couple hailing from Lagos, Nigeria, shared a common desire like many other parents: they longed for their cherished daughter to have a sibling. However, their anticipation quickly turned into surprise during an ultrasound appointment they attended together. What awaited them was a colossal surprise they hadn’t anticipated. The moment Stacy discovered...
Children ages 10 to 14 are a little less likely to experience depression when they have a sister, even if it’s a little sister, according to one study. It looked at how siblings and parents affect each other in families. According to Padilla-Walker, a professor at Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life, “Siblings do...
Everyone loves pizza, well maybe not everyone, but the idea of pizza is that it brings everyone together, so we could at least love the idea of it. For one family, ordering pizza was a life-changing event. They did not expect the reaction they felt when their pizza was delivered one night by a delivery...
We just can’t seem to escape wide-spread public health threats. This time it is a liver disease that doctors are seeing unusually high numbers of in children across the UK, Europe, and the United States. The CDC has officially issued an alert for parents to keep an eye on their kids for symptoms of this...