Content warning: This article deals with some heavy mental health struggles. At the beginning of this year, a tragedy occurred in Florida. A couple died just days apart by suicide. The young couple, two deputies for the Florida Sheriff’s Department, leave behind their one-month-old baby boy. Florida Couple Dies By Suicide Just Days Apart Twenty-four-year-old Clayton...

The 80s were a decade of neon, legwarmers, and a whole lot of unsupervised fun. While today’s kids navigate a world of helicopter parenting and digital entertainment, children of the 80s had a very different experience. Here are 25 activities from that era that would likely cause modern parents to clutch their pearls: 1. Roaming...

Avocado has become a modern food hero. It’s versatile, delicious, and packed with nutrition. People have eaten it on toast, in guacamole, in soups, in salads, in tacos, in smoothies, and in desserts, like brownies, pudding, and even chocolate truffles. In general, there are too many recipes enhanced by avocado to list them all. And...

Parenting looks like a breeze if you believe the Instagram hype. However, as many of you know, the truth about parenthood is completely different. It can be brutal at times, exhausting, confusing, and challenging in the best of times. But, of course, it’s all worth it in the end. What if Instagram and other social...

Being biologically related to someone doesn’t mean that they are necessarily your family. It also doesn’t mean that they own you. True family is a bond between people who love and value each other. They would never dump you out in the cold, or leave you behind. Today’s story shows up the real meaning of...

Deciding to build a family takes courage and a lot of consideration. The mental and physical requirements increase when the number of children in the family increases. As such, surprise pregnancies can be either a blessing or a curse for some families. In 2016, Ukraine’s Oksana Kobeletska made headlines by being a mom to quintuplets....

We’ve made many medical advancements that have made giving birth a much safer process. Still, now matter what kind of birth you have, there are risks. This family experienced one first-hand when this Colorado mom had to give birth via emergency cesarean section. The doctors cut her newborn’s face when performing the procedure. Family Pursuing...

Losing a child is a pain that no parent should ever endure. In 2014, an expecting mother had her dreams of being a mother crushed when her child, a stillborn, never took his first breath. After one year of not touching his room, she decided to sell the crib she had bought for him. The...

Attending a school dance is something most children dream of. They go through their schooling careers planning out dresses, tuxedos, corsages, what ride they will rock up in, and the list goes on. There is something magical about the whole affair. One family was heartbroken when their little girl was diagnosed with a terminal illness....

For someone getting married, the day is so special. It may be cliche, but if you’re a bride, it’s not unusual to want to look and feel like a princess. As we all know, weddings can be quite an expensive venture. Wedding dresses can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars and can put a...

A parent’s role is not the easiest job in the world. There are so many things to teach our children about the woes of life. But, there are also wins that should be celebrated because those are what give us hope. Teaching children can be the most rewarding activity, but it can be the most...

Giving up a child for adoption is never an easy decision. When Shelley Pitts became pregnant at just 14 years old, she ultimately knew that it was what would be best for her baby. Still, she silently celebrated her son’s birthday every year since the day she gave him away. Finally, more than three decades...