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Two Fires
During Fire Trailer 12 From my memory, I was young enough to care about things I did not know could be replaced. I estimate I may have been between 2 and 4 years old.
By Yuley Burrow5 years ago in Families
A Child is Not a Pawn
What happens to a person's ability to have healthy relationships as an adult, when, growing up, they were not treated properly by their family?
By Samantha Sidor5 years ago in Families
How to Care for an Infant With a Birth Injury
Conception is a celebration of life and the beginning of a family. Unfortunately, there are circumstances that can lead to birth defects and birth injuries brought on by issues in medical care and potentially during delivery.
By Casey Chesterfield5 years ago in Families
My days in self quarantine
After a few years back in the UK, deciding where to live, what job to do and just putting one step in front another, I decided to move back to Portugal and start a new job as a Drama Teacher at an International School near Cascais. This was in July 2020, when flights were being cancelled and everything seemed completely scary! This was a crazy time to move!
By Catherine Goulding5 years ago in Families
Miscarriage
Statistics say that 1 in 4 people with uteruses will experience a miscarriage. That means in a room with 40 uterus bearing people, at least ten of them will have experienced a miscarriage in their lifetime. A couple of weeks ago Chrissy Teigen shared her experience with her miscarriage. I am also one of those 1 in 4 and want to share my experience.
By Brittany Sanders5 years ago in Families
History of Christmas
As we all know Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December. Christmas is a religious and sacred holiday. Two millennia people around the world have been observing Christmas with traditions and practices. The traditions and practices are religious and secular in nature. Christains celebrate Christmas as the birthday of Jesus. Jesus is a spiritual leader of their religion. December 25th or Christmas has been a federal holiday since 1870.
By Drake Waggoner5 years ago in Families
"The world is so cruel; my heart torn in two"
I don't know who took this pic of me some ten odd years ago, or what was going through my mind at the time. It's self-evident however that I might could have avoided a lot of heartbreak and whatnot had I just taken the advice of my "old heads" around that general timeframe.
By Nefarious Darrius5 years ago in Families
Guidance to Choose the Right Toys for Pre-schoolers
In earlier articles, we laid the foundation of the importance of inspiring kids’ creativity to maximize the outcomes of their growing age towards an outstanding career journey. In our analysis, we showed how STEM is playing a fundamental role in all life aspects. To ease analysis and guide parents, we split the growing age into three stages, namely, Toddler, Pre-schooler, and Mid-childhood. Starting with Toddler, we showed the basic skills and goals that needed to understand for choosing the right toys that basically play a considerable role of building the awareness of the physics of the surroundings, like sizes and colors. In this article, we would like to briefly summarize the major goals of each stage from Toddler through Mid-childhood years. From the perspective of a growing process, raising a kid is somehow like creating a brand and growing it bigger, better, and stronger gradually with the right ways.
By cossykids5 years ago in Families
Little Aj Learns Her Manners
It is a bright and shiny morning! “Good morning mama,” says AJ in a sleepy voice. “Good morning AJ, someone is still sleepy this morning,” says Mama cheerfully.
By Makenna Blackman5 years ago in Families
Holiday Bliss
The holiday has come so fast. It’s time to spend quality time with our family. This year has been so different. This year I talked to my family over video calls. I also received some regular phone calls. Some of my family and friends sent cards. I mail cards to let my family and friends know that I was thinking of them. I was so thankful to see another Thanksgiving. It’s perfect peace to be in the land of the living. We should always be thankful. A lot of people are still adjusting to this new normal.
By Ashley 5 years ago in Families
Dear Super Hero
Dear caregivers, also known to us as Super Heroes, Soooooo, it's been a few months since your new involuntary title. No, you didn't get a raise or even appreciation from us at first, for the step up you needed to take with such short notice.
By Kimberly Peace5 years ago in Families
Bringing Home Cam
In the beginning, I started my BringingHomeCam page for a couple of different reasons. At the time, my now 14 year old son was barely 3. His father and I had recently divorced and going through the whole divorce/custody thing was not just upsetting and frustrating, but scary. Now at the time, I was at the top of my game in my career field and still loving every minute of it. I was secure; not only in who I was and where I was going, but financially as well. I was beginning to feel more and more like my old self again, and truly believed things were actually going to be ok. After all, the divorce was both our ideas, no slanderous back-story, and I'd moved only a few miles away into a beautiful new neighborhood with a greenbelt and park, allowing our son to stay in the same school district (when the time came). Incredulous as it was at the time, our custody arrangement was one of the first documented 50/50 splits in our State. Neither of us paid child support to the other (*mistake #1) and we split our time with our young son a week on, a week off. We even had a trade off night during the week so when it was my week, he'd go a night with his dad, and vice-versa. This way, noone went an entire week without seeing each other. I was pleasant still with his parents, agreeable when he had a time date or change, and did nothing to rock this fraigile boat (*mistake #2). So when only months out of signing our papers, you can probably imagine how totally shocked I was to receive more legal paperwork........I mean, weren't we done? Ha....not even close. Now tell me, why on earth, would a father who gets exactly the same thing as far as arrangements go, pays not a cent to his ex, has his son 50%+ of the time, file for a modification of custody? Full custody?! What on earth for???? I mean yea, he said he'd "have our son, no matter what" when we talked about divorcing, but I'd never threatened to take our son away, much less ask for full custody. So what in the hell was going on?? This had to be old paperwork, a typo of sorts, right? I mean, I'll just talk to him, right, and clear up this whole mess.................(*mistake #3)
By Amy Ryn Smith5 years ago in Families