Parenting

 · 5 min read

Losing a Mother is Like Losing a Part of Yourself

Losing a mom is like a losing a light that had been illuminating your whole life. Only once it’s gone do you realize how dark the world is without it. You may try to adjust to this darkness, but you will never forget the light you lost. And as people expect you to stop grieving […]

Sarah Biren

Sarah Biren

Founder of The Creative Palate

 · 7 min read

Our Must Buy Gifts For Grandma

Aren’t grandmothers the best? They feed us, comfort us, and take care of us when we’re sick. They love spoiling us, so it’s important that we show Grandma how much we love and appreciate her by spoiling her a little right back. We asked the team to put together a list of 25 of our […]

Julie Hambleton

Julie Hambleton

The Hearty Soul Team

 · 6 min read

Ex-Kindergarten teacher’s post about why she quit teaching goes viral for how real it is.

Teaching is one of the most difficult and yet most important jobs you can have. Despite this, teachers are continuously underpaid, underappreciated, and lack the support they need from their school boards and the families of their students. This former kindergarten teacher quit teaching for reasons that may surprise most people. This is her story. […]

Julie Hambleton

Julie Hambleton

The Hearty Soul Team

 · 4 min read

A Letter to my Children: You do not come from a Broken Home

The title of a “broken home” is often given to families who have gone through a divorce. This word broken, however, implies that there is only hardship where love still exists. To discuss this, Kate Rose wrote a letter to her children. In it she says that just because they’ve experienced the divorce of their […]

Julie Hambleton

Julie Hambleton

The Hearty Soul Team

 · 6 min read

Mom Tells Her Sons to Keep Feminine Products in their Backpacks

Menstruation is a normal and healthy part of life, with 26% of the global population (about half of the female population) are in the reproductive stage of life. Still, menstruation is stigmatized all over the world, leading to damaging misconceptions and even discrimination. Although many educate girls on the topic, boys are very often left […]

Sarah Biren

Sarah Biren

Founder of The Creative Palate

 · 5 min read

Scotland becomes the first country in the world to add LGBTQI history to school curriculum

Scotland has now taken an important step toward combating homophobia and is the first country in the world to include LGBTQI history as a part of their school curriculum. For centuries, the LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex) community has faced discrimmination, violence, oppression, and persecution at the hands of the church, state, […]

Brittany Hambleton

Brittany Hambleton

The Hearty Soul Team

 · 4 min read

No One Came to His Graduation So His Teacher Decided to Celebrate With Him Instead

Some classes won’t have an official graduation ceremony this year because of the current pandemic. The classes in safer areas must be thrilled to have the experience of officially graduating and celebrating their academic accomplishments. However, a graduation can become miserable if your family doesn’t bother to show up. That’s what happened to one teenager […]

Sarah Biren

Sarah Biren

Founder of The Creative Palate

 · 5 min read

Kids Don’t Need Plastic Junk. So, Please Stop Buying It.

Dolls, trucks, Lego, and action figures are all classic children’s toys that have one thing in common: they’re all made of plastic. In fact, in 2017 the website ecobirdy.com conducted a survey which found that 90 percent of all children’s toys are made entirely out of plastic [1]. These brightly-colored plastic toys are placed conveniently […]

Brittany Hambleton

Brittany Hambleton

The Hearty Soul Team