When six-year-old Lily learns she is going to Disneyland today, as part of an early birthday present, she is completely overwhelmed with happiness. Watch Lily react to this greatest of surprises below. (The waterworks start at 2:19.)
Left untreated, a cleft lip dooms a child to a lifetime of emotional and physical difficulties. It’s a also relatively easy condition to fix, and the organization Operation Smile has made it their mission to provide free surgery to needy children around the world who suffer from cleft lip and other facial deformities.
In this heartwarming video you can see a young Brazilian girl’s shocked and overjoyed first reaction to her new face after getting cleft lip surgery. You might want to grab a box of tissues before watching. (And you can donate to Operation Smile here.)
September 13, 2011 Kimberly Garrity's two adult children sued her over what they called her bad parenting skills. The kids claimed in their lawsuit that they suffered emotional distress due to bad mothering. Steven Garrity, now age 23, complained that his Mother did not include money in a birthday card and Kathryn Garrity, now 20, reported her mother made her come home from a party at midnight.
August 30, 2011 Eric Clapton's son Conor died in 1991 after a fall from a 53rd story window in New York. (Conor would have turned twenty-four this month.) Falling from a window is a far more common accident that you would think. About fourteen children tumble out of one every day!
When this little boy’s father tells him that a bug caught in a spiderweb isn’t going to ever be able to escape, the boy naively responds that he thinks the bug’s “mommy has to come and get him out.” It’s a touching reminder of how the innocence of childhood can stand up to even the starkest cruelty of the natural world.
August 18, 2011 Lafayette Little League represented well in Pennsylvania, shutting out the Southeast champions 2-0 to advance to the next round in the Little League World Series.
August 18, 2011
Two Lafayette teams headed to the World Series! The Lafayette Little League team made their way into the World Series again with an incredible come-from-behind win over the Pearland, Texas team last week, and now they play Warner Robins, Georgia, the Southeast champions, tonight in Williamsport, PA.
A child’s day doesn’t end when the final school bell rings. In fact for many children it’s just beginning. Where to go for ideas? Oddly, pull from what your kids love most about school — and think outside the sandbox. From the physical, to
August 16, 2011 In the words of the legendary Paul Harvey "It's not one world".
Police say that Jeremiah Lee Wright, 30, decapitated his special-needs son and placed the boy's head near the street, with the intention of making sure the boy's mother saw it when she returned home.
August 12, 2011 Are we over-protective of our children in the United States? Or, are these people just plain crazy?
What does the Grinch do when it isn’t the Christmas season? He apparently hits the links.
A county inspector has fined the parents of children selling lemonade near the US Open at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland $500 because they didn’t have a permit.
June 3, 2011 This story just breaks my heart.
Authorities in Jefferson Parish have booked a 33-year-old woman on various charges after she left her 20-month-old son in a car for over an hour, in the company of a woman who just so happened to be dead.
