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5-Month-Old’s Hilariously Awkward Passport Photo
Pictures taken for passports, driver’s licenses and other forms of ID are often unflattering — but this awkward photo of a 5-month-old baby might be in a class by itself.Dad JorgeChurano posted the meme-worthy pic to Reddit on Thursday with the caption, “My wife took our 5 month old son to get his first passport photos taken — NAILED…
Ronan’s Mom Maya Thompson Reacts To Taylor Swift’s Song About Her Son (VIDEO)
When Maya Thompson’s 3-year-old son Ronan was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma in August 2010, she started a blog to document an unimaginably difficult family journey. She had no idea that one of her loyal readers was going to be superstar Taylor Swift — and that Swift would one day turn the words on that blog, Rockstar Ronan, into song…
Toys Will Be Toys
Puff is part teddy bear, with a hint of dog, or maybe mouse. He’s a soft, smooth confection, all white and yellow with moonshaped pink ears and embroidered baby blues. Made of parachute-type material, with a whisper of a rattle inside, he was part of a Fisher-Price line a lifetime ago, known as Puffalumps.The moment I spotted him, in a…
Missing Matthew
My son Andy skipped ahead of me with his fresh haircut and new Quiksilver T-shirt. He tumbled into a cluster of exuberant but nervous freshmen outside the high-school gym as upperclassmen clapped and chanted, music blaring.It was orientation day our local high school.When it was time to get to the business of filling out forms and taking…
Museum of New Hampshire History Apologizes To Abby Duffy, Blind Girl, For Taking Her Cane
A museum in New Hampshire has apologized for refusing to allow an 8-year-old blind girl named Abby Duffy to use her white cane inside the museum, WMUR News 9 reports.The incident was first brought to light by Abby’s mother, Penny Duffy, who posted about it on her blog earlier this week. Abby started losing her vision at age 6 due to a…
Swallowed Batteries Send Thousands Of Kids To ER Yearly
A growing number of children are swallowing batteries, especially circular “button batteries,” leading to thousands of emergency room visits each year and, in a few cases, deaths, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.From 1997 through 2010, nearly 30,000 young children up to age 4 were taken to…
Formerly Blind Mama Orangutan Can See Her Babies For The First Time
In this Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 file photo, Gober, an elderly female Sumatran orangutan who is blind in both eyes due to cataracts, lies down with her twin babies at a rehabilitation center in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara, File)JAKARTA, Indonesia — A formerly blind Sumatran orangutan can see her baby…
Alanis Morissette ‘Havoc & Bright Lights’ Inspired By Motherhood, Marriage
NEW YORK — Alanis Morissette is feeling a little more appreciated as a woman these days, and her new album, “Havoc and Bright Lights,” is a reflection of that.”(There’s) the whole shifting of the misogynistic, chauvinistic, patriarchal thing into what this new climate is slowly becoming, which is the celebration of the alpha-empowered…
What is Perfection?
There is something amazing about seeing your baby on an ultrasound… whether it’s the first, second or tenth time. Just over a year ago, my husband Lew and I excitedly walked into the doctor’s office, ready for our 18-week fetal survey, where they check every single organ to ensure that they’re developing correctly. We’d already had one…
The Truth About Parenthood
Sometimes, I have this imaginary conversation with an imaginary friend who is days from giving birth to her first child. In this fictional scenario, we are huddled at a small table in a coffee shop and she, my fictional friend who is about to pop, shifts uncomfortably in her wooden chair and plucks errant blueberry muffin crumbs from her…
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