Parenting is hard. No matter how much you love your children, some days they test your patience until it has worn thin. During times like these, it is often tempting to completely lose your temper and yell at them. Sometimes, you find yourself raising your voice before you even realized it was happening. While yelling...
Parents have always been giving it their best shot as there’s really no perfect way to raise kids. However, there’s a huge gap in behavior standards between kids of today and the older generations. The entitled attitude is at an all-time high, loneliness is a real problem, depression is more alarming than ever before, and...
It was a regular day at the lake for the Free family. Cassandra Free, her husband, their three sons, and a family friend spent the entire day motoring around Lake Eufaula, the largest lake in Eastern Oklahoma. They were tubing, wake surfing, and just generally enjoying the beautiful June weather – that is, until carbon...
You know what the hardest job in the world is? Being a mom. For that reason, we’re not going to give you 101 parenting tips you need to try or suggest how to be a better mother by using these secret parenting techniques. Nope, none of that stuff today. We’re just going to leave you...
Pranks have been a long-time part of human culture, perhaps as long as humans have existed. There have been many iconic practical jokes over the years that have made headlines- like in 1957 when the BBC famously ran a story teaching viewers how to grow their own spaghetti tree, or in 1980 when they claimed...
‘Dying in one’s sleep’ is often thought of as the most peaceful way to pass, if there is such a thing. Sadly, this was not the case for fourteen-year-old Alua Asetkyzy Abzalbek from Bastobe, Kazakhstan. The teenager went to bed with her phone on her pillow, listening to music while she fell asleep. The phone...
She shook this table really hard… Gender equality is a venture that women aren’t backing down from anytime soon. In an explicit Facebook post, Australian celebrity blogger and mom of four, Constance Hall called out husbands who have to wait to be asked before they help with chores [1]. A woman doesn’t have to nag...
In 2015, granola bar company Nature Valley created an ad in which they asked three generations of families one question: When you were a kid, what did you do for fun? The older two generations shared many wonderful memories of playing outside, building forts, picking blueberries, and going on fishing trips. They reminisced fondly of...
The signs of abuse can often be hard to see, especially when the abuser is a parent. Not only may people outside of the situation not see the signs, but it can be years before the child recognizes the abuse. These are some of the signs that you or someone you know has an abusive...
In a case that feels ripped from the script of a dystopian TV show, a Pennsylvania school district found itself in the middle of a massive scandal. Back in 2010, the Lower Merion School District was accused of spying on its students. This was orchestrated by using webcams installed on school-issued laptops. The incident, which...
She wasn’t pregnant at 4 am (or so she thought) but became a mother several hours later. Klara Dollan spent nine months not knowing she was pregnant until she went into labor and gave birth in her apartment bathroom. Circumstances like hers are known as cryptic pregnancies, a rare but not unheard-of phenomenon. What are...
When Paige and Daniel Zezulka from Athens, Georgia decided they wanted to become foster parents, they were placed with then-5-month-old Kai (3). While they expected the journey to be a difficult one, they did not expect what would come next. “We got a call about a little boy who needed a home,” Paige Zezulka told...
