It’s not everyday (or ever) that you hear a charming and wholesome diarrhea story, but one man’s tale about having diarrhea in front of his 4-year-old is sure to put a smile on your face.
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12 of the best Amazon Alexa skills for kids (and their parents)
Amazon Alexa is quite possibly one of the best things to ever happen to your smart home.
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Kid knocks over unsecured $132,000 statue. Now they want his parents to pay.
A family may be responsible for a pricey statue their child knocked it over at the Tomahawk Ridge Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas.
According to Sarah Goodman, the child’s mother, the incident occurred last month at a wedding reception, loca…
Mick Jagger has gone full-blown dad on his son’s Instagram account and it’s so, so pure
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Having your parents on social media can go either way.
Sometimes they can be funny, sometimes they can be painfully embarrassing. Sometimes it’s a mixture of the two.
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Mick Jagger’s comments on his 19-year-old son Lucas’ Instagram photos probably fall into the latter category — but in our minds they’re just plain adorable.
My new favorite thing is Mick Jagger leaving dorky dad comments on his teenage son’s Instagram postspic.twitter.com/DFEmgwxKp4
— d. patrick rodgers (@dpatrickrodgers) May 30, 2018
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We picked our favorite TV moms to celebrate Mother’s Day weekend
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Mother’s day is for all moms — including the fictional female characters that passed down wisdom through the TV screen.
Members of the Mashable team picked their favorite TV moms and shared why these complex, caring women where so impactful. Read more…
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Sleep. Glorious sleep. That is what your mom wants for Mother’s Day. Well, that and a strong drink.
This Mother’s Day, go straight boozy and cozy with mom’s gift. She will thank you — while sipping on a nerves-soothing neat bourbon under a fuzzy blanket.
We’ve broken down our gift recommendations by presents that will help mom secure some much-needed extra sleep as well as whiskey, bourbon, and rye recommendations from an alcohol expert. Mix and match as you please in order to make mom happiest. Read more…
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8 TV moms we’d love to have around in real life
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All that we are, or hope to be, we owe to our parents — both real and fictional.
While biological moms deserve major props for seeing us through our formative years, serving as role models, and literally giving us life, we must never forget all the comfort and wisdom that TV moms bestowed upon us over the years.
Through our television, laptop, and phone screens, we’ve watched as mothers on our favorite television shows shared relationship, career, and life advice with their on-screen children. We listened to their words, taking them as seriously as we would our own mother’s, and grew to love the characters so deeply that we wished they were real people. Read more…
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Highly resourceful woman has the wildest birth story of all time
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When Tia Freeman’s son Xavier is old enough to need a party icebreaker, he’ll have an excellent one about his incredible resourceful mother and his impromptu water birth.
In a wildly popular Twitter thread shared Tuesday, Freeman – a member of the U.S. Air Force – shared her son’s incredible birth story, which starts on a flight from the U.S. to Turkey and ends with an unexpected newborn.
I still really don’t understand what’s so shocking about my delivery story. Lol maybe it’ll set in one day.
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The miracle of parenthood is a truly wonderful thing that can even be found in some of the more unexpected places.
For instance, for Twitter user @omophorion a child was found in the form of one water-filled nitrile glove with a drawn-on face.
“Behold,” writes omophorion, on the video of the lovely boy being jiggled. “My son.”
behold
my son pic.twitter.com/fVFvATT9BX— ✨Pouchrat✨ (@omophorion) April 22, 2018
The boy’s name is Leonard and lest you think he is a simple latex glove without any substance, he’s got secret dreams and ambitions. Read more…
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How ‘returnships’ help women in tech get back to work after a parenting break
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This column is part of a series called “Voices of Women in Tech,” created in collaboration with AnitaB.org, a global enterprise that supports women in technical fields, as well as the organizations that employ them and the academic institutions training the next generation.
I could always pinpoint the exact moment of disappointment in the middle of a job interview, when the interviewer would discover the gap in my resume. “Oh,” they would say, “how are you going to get back up to speed?” The change in tone was palpable. I was no longer a candidate; I was a liability.
Four years prior, I had made the decision to leave my technical project manager position in order to better support my family. As my 3-year-old son grew, he required more care than he had when he was baby, when his needs were met by simple acts of feeding, bathing, and snuggling. I knew I didn’t want to lose the best years with my child, who now needed me to be present in the moment, to be engaged, to have energy. But when I made the difficult decision to take a break, I never imagined that my career wouldn’t be waiting for me when I was ready to return. Read more…
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