children
Children: Our most valuable natural resource.
“Mommy, I’m Scared that Someone Will Take Me and Make My Eyes Close Forever”
Yesterday, everyone’s cell phones in the office went bananas, we all jumped in our chairs, and immediately grabbed them to see if it was time for our zombie apocalypse training to come in handy. It was an Amber Alert. It was a 16-year-old girl that had been taken by a 36-year-old man. I shivered a little bit, thinking that it sounded very similar to the “Morbid” podcasts I had been listening to recently. I made a mental note of the information, sat my phone back down, and went about my day.
By Kassondra O'Hara4 years ago in Families
Coming Of Age
When I think of coming to age part of me believes I’ve yet to see it. I have aspirations and I am deeply immersed in some of them. Hell I’d even made it to grad school before the pandemic made all of that come crashing down. I was a doctoral student in chiropractic college. That experience hadn’t made me though.
By Jessica A Looper4 years ago in Families
My Little Sunshine
There are a few events in my life that changed everything, but the first one would be when I met my daughter. I had a bad experience with the fairer sex in my high school years. Cliche as it might be, I was left broken hearted in my final year do to a girl who didn’t share my affections. I had sworn off women after that, went to college, focused on my studies. It was simpler that way, and I was happier. Then, randomly I met the woman who would become my wife. We dated for a few months, and then she told me she had a daughter. I wanted to meet the little scamp, so I did.
By Patrick Marrero4 years ago in Families
My Life Changing Experience
I was married at seventeen, we had our second child when I was twenty-four. When he was one month old, he stopped breathing and we didn’t know what to do, so we were passing him back and forth and he was starting to turn blue. It was the end of August and a warm evening. Beautiful outside actually. And here we were in a panic. We were suddenly outside, and a neighbor hollered to ask what was wrong and when I told her to call an ambulance and that our baby had quit breathing, she hollered back to run him to the hospital. We lived just one block from Lutheran Deaconess in Minneapolis. When I ran as fast as I could to get him to the hospital, he was breathing again, then when he went in with the doctor, he stopped again. He was taken by ambulance in a baby incubator to the General hospital downtown. They poked and prodded him all night. It was really scary as at one point in the night they asked my permission to give him a spinal tap. They said that could kill him and if it was what they would be checking for and if we didn’t have the spinal tap, and he did have that condition, then that would for sure kill him. I was at the hospital alone. Many of my family and my husband’s family lived up north. My husband was at home with our daughter.
By Denise E Lindquist4 years ago in Families
A Happy Flower
A LOVELY LILLY ADVENTURE Lilly was a happy puppy, a content dachshund. afe and well fed. If she were asked she would declare to all that she was the happiest little wiener pup ever! Whatever a wiener is? Although she missed her brothers and sisters terribly.
By Robert Trinneer4 years ago in Families
Middle-aged and Addicted to Coffee
My mother told me that when I turned 30, I would find the answers to life. Looking back, I think that she meant 30 is when you figure out how to pay all your bills on time, you realize that credit cards are not your friend, and day drinking while shopping is preferable to nightclubs and hangovers.
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins4 years ago in Families
Comparing Yourself to Others Is Not Good
Do you love reading parenting books? What about the ones that make you think that you are not alone? The ones that talk about the REAL experience of parenthood. The ones that talk about how the days seem to last forever, even though you blink and years flew by.
By Shelley Wenger4 years ago in Families
Good Bedtime Routines to Help Your Children Sleep
One of the most challenging parts of raising children can be putting them to sleep (and hoping that they stay there). By bedtime, everyone is tired and cranky, even you as a parent, which makes it even harder. Even worse, many children seem to find another wind, making it really challenging to get them into bed.
By Shelley Wenger4 years ago in Families
The loneliness of being a single parent
It seems that nowadays, all you can see are single parents making it look so easy. Like life is all sunshine and rainbows. That you just have to buy their course and they can teach you to work for an hour a day, and you get to have the picture perfect life. It's easy to see that, and to think that is what life should be like. To compare your life to theirs, and think that it should be the same. But real life is not sunshine and rainbows. It isn't perfect. And I break it to you, but it isn't easy at all.
By Talara Nolan4 years ago in Families
