Worrying about babies who don’t get much sleep at night may not be necessary, according to infant development experts. Smarter babies can’t sleep without interruption, and it isn’t something to fuss over. Actually, parents should be happy their little …
NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY WITH TERMINAL CANCER HANGS ON TO MEET BABY SISTER
Angels do live among us, albeit sometimes without the wings and halos. Nine-year-old British boy Bailey Cooper had a mission to accomplish despite being exhausted from unimaginable pain. He held on harder than is expected of a nine-year-old because he had to meet his little sister. 28-year-old Rachel Cooper, Bailey’s mom told him during her…
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Self-sustained and Alone 17-year-old girl Safeguards the Place She Calls Home
This is the amazing story of one girl against the world. Despite mind-numbingly difficult challenges faced during the earliest years of her life, Li MingLing has managed to cultivate a life for herself at just seventeen. She lives alone in Lanxian County, Shanxi Province, in China. Her life story is a sad one, and yet…
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When Depression Makes You Seem Like a Messy Person
Depression is a mental health problem that many of us experience. And it’s on the rise. From 2005-2015, the number of cases of depression worldwide increased by nearly a fifth. This could be due to many factors, but it is believed an increase in isolation (especially for those aged 60-74) and rising stress levels are…
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A Technique To Control Your Dreams Has Been Verified For The First Time
A technique to induce lucid dreaming has been independently verified for the first time, and might be even more effective when combined with others. More than half the participants lucidly dreamed during the trial, a record-breaking success rate in just a week without using external intervention. Lucid dreaming is the term given to the state where the…
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Why Parents Should Spend Less Money on Toys and Take More Family Vacations
Halloween has passed; you survived Thanksgiving, and now… Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming! And with that, so is a lot of spending. Every single year, families will spend – and, for some, arguably waste – hundreds or thousands of dollars on toys. It doesn’t help that Christmas is conveniently tucked between Black Friday, Cyber…
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Grandfather Pens Powerful Open Letter to His Grandkids About Childhood
There is something about grandparents’ wisdom that speaks volumes. You can be a wide-eyed grandchild or a jaded adult – grandparents can cut through anything with their life experience and truths. That’s why The Hearty Soul has posted many articles sharing the wisdom of people with lifetimes of experience. For example: 22 Pieces of Life…
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Bride Reads Cheating Fiancé’s Text Messages Instead of Vows at Their Wedding
Imagine… After months of planning, endless consultations, drowning in details about color schemes and décor, all the fittings to make sure the wedding dress fits perfectly… that it was all for nothing. Every now and then, you hear wedding day horror stories about a bride or groom getting cold feet and not showing up. In…
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Cancer Took 27-Year-Old Holly Butcher’s Life – This Is Her Touching Life Advice
It’s a question that everyone inevitably asks themselves at some point in their life: Why do bad things happen to good people? Many people start looking for answers to this question later in life. But, others begin much earlier. One of those people was Holly Butcher, a 27-year-old from Australia who was diagnosed with a…
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15 Reasons Why Your Aunt Is One of the Most Important People in the World
Everyone has that favorite aunt – maybe you are that favorite aunt! Well, today we want to give some praise to all the amazing aunts that have impacted our lives. We’ll even go so far as to that behind every incredible human being, there’s an incredible aunt. It’s true. Of course, parents and grandparents have a…
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Female Empaths: 11 Reasons Why Men Cannot Handle Them
Everyone knows an empath. Just reading those four words, there are likely one or two people who pop right into your head. One of the reasons that is, is because empaths are different than the average person. When people are different – for some reason – their lives are filled with a unique set of…
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Why Raising Kids Without Extended Family Nearby Sucks
If we asked 100 people for their definitions of freedom, we could very well get 100 different answers. We would wager that one of the answers would have to do with the first time you moved out to live with your partner. No kids, no fights, no worries – complete freedom. But, as you would…
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3 Things Everyone Can Learn from Melissa McCarthy’s Daily Routine
Hollywood’s landscape has shifted drastically in the last few years, especially in terms of famous actresses, one of whom is Melissa McCarthy. Not only is she being recognized for how much money she is making, but for the surprising way she conducts her day to day life. Unlike many Hollywood stars’ jam-packed schedules where it…
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Japanese Minimalism: 4 Videos Proving How Minimalist Japan Truly Is
Over the last few years, the minimalist movement has grown quite maximally and led people to completely rethink the way they choose to live their lives. Minimalism has even allowed hoarders to take their lives back and helped people to value relationships with family and friends again instead of material possessions. It is a trend,…
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Sibling Rivalry: 7 Parenting Tips to Help Build Stronger Sibling Bonds
Nothing feels more crushing than seeing family fight… What’s worse is when parents see their own children at each other’s throats – and over what!? Whose turn it is to wash dishes, who got the bigger bowl of ice cream for dessert, how long the other person has been using the family iPad, how the…
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Popular Cleaner Goes On Holiday Paid for By Students So He Can See His Family
“It’s about making the most of every single day, because no one knows how long you might have or if your life might end tomorrow — and for me that’s about making others happy.” Those are the words of Herman Gordon, a custodian at Bristol University. Herman was born in Jamaica and emigrated to Britain…
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Just 2 Minutes High-Intensity Exercise Could Be as Beneficial as 30 Minutes of Moderate Activity
Yes, we know it’s good for us but trying to squeeze in an hour at the gym in between a 40-hour work week, family commitments, and a social life can feel near-on impossible. That’s where high-intensity interval training (or HIIT) comes in. HIIT workouts have become increasingly popular in recent years. If you’ve never heard…
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The Tortoise and the Hare: How to Form Habits Slowly and Steadily
How many times have you heard the age-old saying, “Slow and steady wins the race?â€� Probably hundreds. It’s a simple yet profound piece of wisdom that gets thrown around a lot (probably too much). But, people underestimate how much those six little words can impact their lives. Aesop’s Fable: The Tortoise and the Hare You’ve…
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Douglas Adams’ Story Teaches a Powerful Lesson on Judging Others
We have all experienced moments in life that were so humbling or embarrassing – or both! – that you remember them forever. Eventually, a fitting opportunity to share your story arises, and this is one of those times. Now, it’s not one of our personal experiences but it still serves as an excellent reminder to…
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