Remember how exciting it was when you got that brand-new variety pack of crayola crayons or pencil crayons, with their perfectly unused points all lined up in a dazzling rainbow of colours? You could instantly see the dozens of beautiful creations you were going to make, dancing through your head. There was one problem with…
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Not all superheroes can lift airplanes or climb up buildings with their bare hands. Some are just regular dads who would go to any lengths to make their little girls stop crying. COVID-19 was about to ruin his daughter’s four-year-old dream of walking down the black carpet and stage at her graduation, but this Memphis…
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In conversations about parenthood, much of the discussion ends up focussing on the mother’s role in a child’s life, but fathers carry equal importance. Not only do they often teach their children many hard skills, like how to change a tire, throw a baseball, or tie a tie, but fathers also are critically important in…
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In a 2012 survey, seventy percent of Americans agreed that “it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with a good, hard spanking” [1]. Adults sometimes hit their children to punish bad behavior, and while it might appear to be effective in the short-term, there is evidence to suggest that corporal punishment is not effective…
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Gardening was an integral part of life for many of our ancestors in generations past, but today, most of us get all of our food at large supermarkets and spend very little time thinking about where it actually comes from, or how it’s grown. This, unfortunately, has been passed down to our children, and today’s…
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For many parents, bedtime can often be a battle. Not only can it be difficult to get your child to go to bed, but it can also be a challenge to simply determine exactly when you should put them to bed in the first place. If you try to put your kids to bed too…
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A lot of things look a little different in 2020. Planes are grounded, public spaces are closed, students are studying online, and people are queuing to get into the grocery store in the same way they did to get into a club or concert just a few months ago. Yes, COVID-19 has put a full…
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“A mother is her son’s home base. You are home to him,” Tabitha of Team Studer wrote in 2011. Rachal Boley, a writer at Three Boys and a Mom, reposted her message onto her Instagram and brought these words back into the public eye. This beautiful post describes the deep connection between a mother and her son. Although boys tend…
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Dad’s are special, and their relationship with their children is a very powerful one. They teach their sons how to be both a man and a true gentleman. A father has the power to teach his son lessons that fight back against toxic masculinity. A woman’s first male relationship is with her father. From him,…
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Every soon-to-be parent wants the same thing: to have a happy, healthy baby. News that your child is to be born with any type of physical or mental disability is difficult to hear. The tests, surgeries, and medical challenges that you and your child face are one thing, perhaps the more challenging are the emotional…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has predominantly affected older adults and individuals with compromised immune systems. Much to the relief of many parents around the world, children seem to be generally safe from severe cases of the virus. The fact that children have been largely unaffected since the pandemic began has surprised and confused doctors since historically…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been exposing many ways in which our society does things that simply do not function. From the environment, to how we treat grocery store workers, it’s clear that when this crisis is behind us, some things need to change. One function of society that hasn’t been gaining much media attention, however,…
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in December 2019, much of the conversation surrounding the virus has focussed on the older portion of the population. This, of course, has been for good reason- an overwhelming majority of severe or deadly cases have been in adults over the age of 65 and those with compromised immune systems…
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Kids who grow up with cousins have this innate sense of family over everything that no one can influence. Sure, having siblings makes up for a lot of the familial bond a child would ever need, but growing up with cousins in the mix hits differently. I haven’t always been close to my cousins from…
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Doctors and other health workers have been on the front lines of fighting the novel coronavirus pandemic and saving lives. But they themselves are not immune from the worst effects of the virus. In Italy alone, more than 40 health workers have died since the coronavirus crisis began mere months ago. [1] And Italy isn’t…
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Doctors and other health workers have been on the front lines of fighting the novel coronavirus pandemic and saving lives. But they themselves are not immune from the worst effects of the virus. In Italy alone, more than 40 health workers have died since the coronavirus crisis began mere months ago. [1] And Italy isn’t…
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Around the world, social distancing policies have been strongly encouraged and, in some cases, made mandatory. Schools and playgrounds are empty as parents keep their kids away from their friends and neighbors to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe. The good news is that young people, including children, are…
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Around the world, social distancing policies have been strongly encouraged and, in some cases, made mandatory. Schools and playgrounds are empty as parents keep their kids away from their friends and neighbors to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe. The good news is that young people, including children, are…
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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus, it has become abundantly clear that older adults are at a greater risk for developing a severe or fatal case of the virus. While the mortality rate varies widely per country, the global average is now over four percent [1]. This number, however, changes dramatically…
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The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is completely new to us. Three months ago, we knew essentially nothing about it. Now, with over half a million positive cases worldwide, we’ve been able to come to understand the nature of the virus better than before. Most people are aware that older people and those with pre-existing…
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Imagine the excitement you would feel on the day your baby brother is being born. Not only can you not wait to meet them, but your head begins to fill with ideas about all the fun things you will do together as you get older. Now imagine being told that your new baby brother sustained…
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As most parents know, disciplining even just one child can be hard enough, let alone a whole room full of them. This is the daily reality of school teachers, who have to somehow remain in control of a classroom of up to thirty or more kids every day of their working lives. Discipline is one…
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As most parents know, disciplining even just one child can be hard enough, let alone a whole room full of them. This is the daily reality of school teachers, who have to somehow remain in control of a classroom of up to thirty or more kids every day of their working lives. Discipline is one…
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Many Americans love bald eagles. After all, this symbolic bird is the national emblem of the United States and has been since 1782. The bald eagle was chosen as the national emblem for the US because they were long-lived, strong, and majestic in appearance. At the time, they were believed only to live in North…
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The relationship between a mother and daughter is unique, and incredibly strong. So much so that eighty to ninety percent of women say they have a good relationship with their mother, despite sometimes having conflicts and complicated emotions [1]. A woman’s relationship with her mother can have a profound impact on her life. Her interactions…
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A few seconds was all it took before baby Isabela produced a “meme-worthy” expression that her mother could be proud of. Photographer Rodrigo Kunstmann captured the moment Isabela Pereira de Jesus, born on February 13, 2020, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gave a long hard glare to the doctors who had delivered her immediately before. Kunstmann, who…
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