Parents decorating their children’s bedroom usually just go to Home Depot, pick out pink or blue paint, and hire someone else to do the job for them. They know the room will be destroyed as their child grows up, so they don’t go crazy trying to make it look unique. One dad from Yorkshire, England, felt differently. When his little girl had a tough time sleeping, he wanted to make her bedroom special so she’d…
We all learned where babies come from at an age when the very concept still seemed gross. Though most of us have grown out of the phase where we have to bury our heads in our shirts to talk about it, as we mature and face reality, it becomes clear that we weren’t exactly being told the whole truth as kids — not all babies are made the same way. Having kids isn’t for everyone, but…
As the old cliche says, blood is thicker than water. That bond isn’t restricted to your nuclear family, though; even cousins can share a close connection. In Tennessee, that relationship recently proved to be more invaluable than anyone might have imagined. During what was supposed to be a fun family outing, nine-year-old Timothy Prather noticed his younger cousin was behaving strangely. Once he realized something was wrong, he sprung into action, hoping his desperate move…
On the football field, NFL coach Deland McCullough has all the answers. The running backs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs excels at giving ball carriers the tools they need to out run — and out smart — defenses. But in his personal life, the coach was in the dark about one crucial piece of information. See, Deland was adopted, but he never asked too many questions about his biological father. However, as time passed…
Women’s bodies are not prepared for many births at once. Unlike many animals, humans can run into a slew of complications from multiple pregnancies, so to avoid medical issues, a mother needs to constantly pay attention to the signals her body is sending. By the time Angie was pregnant with her triplet daughters, she was already a mother of two boys. She and her husband, Gino, were delighted to be adding three little girls to…
There are so many situations in life that you just can’t prepare for. Sure, you can pack a survival kit and keep it in the back of your closet in case of emergencies, and people are always doing different sorts of drills in hopes of preparing themselves for disaster — tornado drills, earthquake drills, fire drills. But you can never really know what’d you do in an intense situation until you’re in the thick of…
Can you remember every freckle on your child’s arm? Most parents would probably guarantee that they could pick their child out of a lineup, but what if another parent swore with the same level of certainty that your child was actually theirs? Could you convince the world that your word is the one to be believed? Over 92 years, two families claimed the other stole a child. The justice system took sides, and all along,…
There are countless homeless people who do the best they can to survive on city streets all around the world. While unfair, it’s easy to make assumptions about why these people wound up homeless—poor financial decisions, drug habits, or just all-around bad luck. However, sometimes even our most basic assumptions can turn out to be totally wrong. One police officer often crossed paths with homeless folks while on duty, yet there was one man who…
Image: Facebook/Marco Deplano In front of Doctor Marco Deplano is a terminally ill, elderly patient whose body is ridden with cancer. Heartbreakingly, she looks as white as the sheets she lies in. Not wanting to hold back, he informs her that her kidneys are failing. The solution? A bag enabling her to pee which he’ll attach for her. But with a sigh, the woman uses a word not often uttered to doctors, “No.” And then she…
After two decades of floating somewhere between life and death, Sarah Scantlin is fully, and finally, awake.Since February when she awoke from a coma-like state that had kept her silent and unmoving for 20 years, she has undergone surgery on her long-unused limbs and has had intensive speech therapy to unlock her long-dormant tongue. Her conversations now reveal that she was aware of many of the things going on around her while she seemed to…