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Many dads are a little nervous about actually saying how much they care, so they end up being a bit more subtle in their ...

Catcher-first baseman Jaime Ferrer of the Cedar Rapids Kernels was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was just three ...

Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they both love ... called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says ...

You're not replacing therapy, but you’re modeling the same brain-soothing habits kids are being taught in therapy rooms. The 5 Brain-Calming Words Here are five simple words I coach parents to ...

In my book 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, I discuss how emotional safety helps kids open up ... don’t just wait for love to carry the weight. Sometimes the four-letter word that brings ...

In just over two weeks, ‘Love in Every Word,’ the latest romantic drama ... As of this report, once you type “Achalugo” on the Google search engine, what follows next is “I am going ...

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected ... Mia quietly slipped the bands of mortality and, as her words and vision always did, soared heavenward. We are thankful for the many good ...

Suzanne Thelma Linder talked about her children at Schulze Elementary School in Detroit — second graders she taught how to read and write and fall in love with words — every week until her ...

That's why Nevada Child Seekers, a local non-profit focused on locating and saving the lives of missing kids across the Silver State, holds their annual "Super Search" this weekend. It's a city ...

A single mom has revealed she’s caught in a battle between her head and her heart. The 31-year-old has two kids, aged 10 and six. For the last five years, it’s been just the three of them.

This didn’t seem to faze the kids at all. But I was itching to intervene ... The effect of those two simple words was immediate. I could feel the tension dissipating; the stress of trying ...