With the 2020-2021 school year almost here, many parents, teachers, and school boards are grappling with how to return students and staff safely back to the classroom while we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. With their mask-policy and strict social distancing guidelines, this Thai school may have figured it out. Thai School’s Perspex Boxes…
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As summer is quickly coming to a close, in a normal year parents, teachers, and students would be preparing to go back to school. This is 2020, however, and is of course not a normal year. Perhaps one of the biggest debates in many households is whether or not parents should be sending their kids…
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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…
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Teaching was a hard job before the pandemic. The classroom of the “new normal” is going to be even more challenging. As teachers try to prepare for what is to come as students return to school, they have to think of ways to make their classrooms as safe as possible. One teacher decided to get…
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In 2017 divorced mom Kaylie shocked a Dr. Phil audience when she revealed that she smoked weed with her fourteen-year-old daughter, Gabrielle. Fast-forward three years to when Hollywood A-lister Johnny Depp stood before a jury in court, defending his decision to give marijuana to his daughter when she was only eleven years old. Over the…
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Over the last several decades, the obesity rate in countries across the world has risen dramatically. During this time, a close correlation between the increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and obesity has been observed [1]. Data shows that these sugary drinks, which include soda, pop, cola, tonic, fruit punch, lemonade, sweetened powder drinks, sports drinks,…
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In world without COVID-19 (AKA last year), no one would ever think about cleaning a public playground. It’s the place for children to play and get dirty, right? However, parks were put off-limits in many areas during the recent outbreak. In others, playgrounds are still open, but they are breeding grounds for germs to pass…
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On August 11th, 2014, the whole world was saddened to learn that the great comedian Robin Williams had taken his own life. Now every year on his birthday, his daughter Zelda donates to a charity in his memory. This year for his 69th birthday, she decided to do just what her dad would have wanted:…
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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….
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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…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful no matter who you are, and children are no exception. If you have noticed your children acting out more than usual lately, or reverting back to old habits or behaviours that you thought they’d grown out of a long time ago, you’re not alone. Many parents across the country…
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It’s hard to imagine that anyone would want to purchase children for sex slavery, and yet this highly illegal industry is booming in the U.S. and around the world. Approximately 1.2 million children are trafficked every year. (2) After saving over 1600 children from sex trafficking, a father of nine is stopping at nothing to…
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When schools across the country were forced to close in the spring because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents struggled to balance working from home while trying either homeschool their children or help them stay on top of their online learning. As families struggled through the latter part of the school year, one thing kept…
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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…
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“Adulting is hard.” This is a phrase you commonly hear among college students and those new to the workforce, and you know what? They’re right. Being an adult is hard, but it is especially challenging when you don’t have much of the basic skills and knowledge that generations prior to the millennials and generation Z-ers…
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The teenage years are tough for everyone, including the parents. As your children begin to grow into young adults before your eyes, they often go through some growing pains in the process. Often this includes attempting to assert their own independence, but it doesn’t always come out in the best way. After experiencing this with…
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So far, 2020 has been a pretty challenging year, and there has been far more bad news than good. We know that this year may not be delivering all the positive stories you’d like to be hearing, so why don’t we turn back the clock a few years to 2015, and reminisce about a truly…
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Last year, Caroline Van Hemert, her husband, and their two young sons packed up twelve duffle bags with the essentials and left their home in Anchorage, Alaska for New Zealand. For the next year, the family lived off-grid, spending eight weeks in a 1998 Nissan Caravan, four weeks in a tent, two weeks in backcountry…
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One of the hardest concepts for adoptive children to grasp is not having any connection to or knowledge of their biological family. This is why when this Colorado mother found out that her two adoptive children had another brother in need of adopting, she knew there was only one thing to do: adopt this child…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Whether you were a kid who was star-struck by construction equipment or have a child who is, Diggerland is the place for you. That’s right, there is a theme park where instead of roller coasters and thrill rides, kids get to operate construction equipment. Diggerland: A Construction Lover’s Dream Park In West Berlin, New Jersey,…
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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…
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Household chores can seem never-ending, but when you get the whole family involved it can lighten the load for everyone. As most parents know, however, getting your kids to do chores can often be a challenge, and can sometimes take some creativity. While your kids may initially put up some resistance, getting them involved in…
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Remember the Gerber Baby Photo Contest? Well, the 2020 contest has come to a conclusion and the results are as historic as they are adorable. Meet your new 2020 Gerber Baby Magnolia Earl, the first-ever adopted child to become the company’s ‘spokesbaby’. Magnolia Earl Becomes the First-Ever Adopted Child Gerber Baby Little Magnolia, who turned…
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When Judith Nwokocha, a Nigerian-Canadian photographer first saw her albino twins, she thought the nurses had handed her the wrong baby. [1] The 38-year-old photographer based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada had been trying to conceive for eight years with her husband who is also African. They were finally blessed with the most adorable set of…
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Turns out when your older sibling jokes around that they are the older and therefore wiser sibling, they might actually be right. A 2016 study found that older siblings are, in fact, more academically inclined than their younger counterparts. Science Says Your Older Sibling Is Smarter The study, which was published in the Journal of…
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As Father’s Day approaches, many of us are looking forward to pulling out the barbecue and cracking open a few cold ones with our old man. Maybe you’re making your annual trek to the cottage for father’s day weekend, or perhaps you’re planning a meal with all his favorite foods. Whatever your traditions are, you’re…
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Currently, there are nearly 430 thousand children in the United States living in foster care, and every year 135 thousand children across the country are adopted [1]. Every single one of those children has a unique and beautiful adoption story that may inspire others to consider expanding their own family in this way. The Sampson…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down schools all over the world for the remainder of the school year, and this stands to have an unprecedented impact on our young people, the effects of which will likely be felt for years to come. As teachers across the country have struggled to stay in contact with their…
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Aunts are some of the first people we meet when we are babies. They wait for months to welcome us into the world and happily take over the caregiving duties when our parents need a much-deserved break. Why Aunts are So Special This quote is famous for a reason: in order for a child to…
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Aunts are some of the first people we meet when we are babies. They wait for months to welcome us into the world and happily take over the caregiving duties when our parents need a much-deserved break. Why Aunts are So Special This quote is famous for a reason: in order for a child to…
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A school in Spain decided to combat gender inequality by educating their male students about the basics of household chores, and they went viral. Housework is equally unloved by both men and women, and yet women do the bulk of it. According to the 8,500 heterosexual couples who were interviewed for the UK Household Longitudinal Study,…
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