Everyone has at least a few freckles somewhere on their body. Some people are covered in them, others just have a few here and there. Some people have freckles all the time, and some people develop them during the warmer months from sun exposure, only to have them fade away again in the fall. According...

This mom says she can’t stand her daughter, and explains why and how she hopes it will change. As parents, we often forget that our little babies are actual people with feelings and ideas and grow up to form new feelings and ideas. If we have done our job correctly, they’ll be able to navigate...

Parents do their absolute best to protect their children from harm. Children, however, are mischievous, inquisitive by nature, and can get into things easily without their parents even knowing. This is exactly what happened to baby Reese, who died at just 18 months old after ingesting a button battery. Her mother is now telling her...

A lost toddler is every parent’s worst fear. It can happen to anyone. Children are curious and unpredictable, and it’s too easy for them to wander off in seconds. When the parents realize they are gone, the immediate reaction is to start running through the store, scanning every section and corner. But there is a better way....

Mothers receive a lot of judgment on how they raise their children. Some people are under the impression that moms are wrong if they don’t parent exactly how they parent. And this mom from Lancashire, England, is no stranger to that kind of scrutiny. Especially once people found out that she still breastfeeds her five-year-old...

Dad bods have grown in popularity over the past several years and most people agree that’s a good thing. It has shown men that women still find them attractive even if they are not sculpted. It promotes the attractiveness of healthy body types, as opposed to the many unattainable beauty standards. However, one woman on...

When one woman shared her advice on how to remember a baby in the back seat, the internet instantly became divided. Some people praised her idea, and others thought it was absurd. You might think this seems like an obvious thing. Remembering a living human being in the backseat of your car is something you...

Often, we find reasons to be dissatisfied with our lives. While our hurt, discomforts, and hardships are worth feeling in order to move past, they are not always as bad as they seem. Stories like this one remind us to be grateful for the lives we have. They also remind us to feel empathy or...

For as long as most of us can remember, society has not “allowed” women to age. It often feels like as soon as a woman leaves her twenties, her value decreases more and more with every passing year. This increases exponentially when her skin starts to wrinkle and sag and when her hair begins to...

Betty Morrell met her mother for the first time in 82 years on January 15, 2016. Her mother, Lena Pierce, had given birth to her at age 13 on February 11, 1933. But six months later, the State of New York took the baby and made her a ward of the state. Betty Morrel was...

This new mother has taken to the internet and revealed something quite strange. That her mother-in-law, grandma, wants to breastfeed her grandchildren.  The bond between mother and child is only strengthened by breastfeeding and is something quite personal. So, naturally, this mother was a little weirded out by her mother-in-law’s strange request. The 70-year-old woman...

“I tried to keep it together. But the moment I was at her funeral and I watched her body being lowered into the ground, I felt the crushing pain. It doesn’t matter how old you are; when the pain of losing a mother hits you, you can’t stop the flood of despair that threatens to...