“My sisters and I will wipe or scratch his nose, brush his teeth, wash his hair, shave his face, clip his nails, clean out his ears and wipe his eyes.”
‘Something wasn’t right. It took a long time for him to be diagnosed.’ Family desperately loves their beloved grandfather through his heartbreaking ALS progression
Please Stop Telling Me I Only Have 18 Summers With My Kids
“Truth is, none of us are promised one more minute, one more day.”
‘We got the horrifying call in the middle of the night: ‘She’s bleeding from her mouth and we don’t know where it’s coming from and can’t stop it.’: Mom shares grief journey after losing twin to rare heart defect, DiGeorge Syndrome
“She’d been taken in for emergency surgery. The bleeding seemed to have slowed, but they still hadn’t found the source. ‘She’s losing too much blood and I don’t think she’s going to make it.’ But she wasn’t gone…there was still hope. The next time the doctor came in, all hope was lost.”
Why I Advocate For My Children’s Personal Boundaries
“I am their safe place, one that they trust and I won’t abuse that by insisting that they do something that makes them feel uncomfortable to be polite.”
‘Baby Coehn was taken to Heaven too soon by Trisomy 18. His momma labored for 33 hours before getting to hold her son.’
“There is no way you can prepare yourself to bury your child. We both were trying to keep it together, but it was obvious we were falling apart.”
‘PUT AWAY THEIR SCREENS’: 7-year-old has avatar GANG RAPED after playing Roblox video game used by 64 million people
‘I’m questioning whether or not I should allow my precious 7-year-old daughter to have access to a screen ever again.”
‘One of the worst things that could go wrong is happening. She’s lost her phone charger.’
“I honestly feel like we all need to take cover right now. Like, I’m seriously looking for a place to hide.”
A Letter To My Son One Year After His Heartbeat Stopped
“No matter how many bad days I have without you in my arms, it is another day closer to being together again.”
‘I had all her kids. She messed up and it was done’: Foster mom and bio mom on raising their ‘little traumatized souls’
“Our relationship started off tense, territorial, and hard. She accused me of everything and I thought nothing of her. But I realized, she is not my enemy. Her addiction is.”
Top 10 Reasons Kids Are Cooler Than Adults, According To This Single Dad
*talking to a person they just met in the elevator* “If you give me a quarter, I won’t fart in here.”