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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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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