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I’m well aware that I have so many more choices than women who came before me. Diving into womanhood with enough luck and access to the right resources, I knew I could set out on any career I wanted, create as much success as I wanted, and thanks to IVF, I could have a baby whether a man was involved […]
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Catastrophe actor Rob Delaney and his wife, Leah, recently revealed that they welcomed their fourth child — a son — in August, only seven months after the devastating loss of their 2-year-old, Henry, who died from brain cancer. This December, Delaney told the U.K.’s The Sunday Times Magazine, “We likely would’ve had a fourth anyway. But I mean, there’s mixed feelings. It’s […]
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Out of all the drama surrounding Drake’s once-secret relationship with adult star-turned-artist, Sophie Brussaux, there seems to be a silver lining: Their kid is a bona fide painter whose talents rank up there with the best of the best (well, at least in Drake’s opinion). The Toronto-raised rapper, who confirmed his son’s identity in his most recent album, Scorpion, shared […]
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Mirza Ghalib is regarded as one of the most famous and influential Urdu and Persian poets. On his birth anniversary, talk to your kids about the great poet and his contributions. Mirza Ghalib’s verses still resonate with every lover of poetry. His ghazals and poems have been a major influence in some literary works that followed him, and have found […]
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In January, actor-comedian Rob Delaney and his wife suffered the devastating loss of their two-year-old son, Henry. Little Henry passed away from cancer after a surgery to have a brain tumor removed. “Henry was a joy,” Delaney wrote in a February Facebook post. “He was smart, funny, and mischievous and we had so many wonderful adventures together, particularly after he’d […]
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There are 14 siblings in all, so many that they eat in shifts. Some sleep on a couch. The octuplets are small for their age, but they’re polite, they cook, they’re vegan, they read two books a month, and they do their homework without being prompted. Despite all of the horror stories in the tabloids since the birth, they’re model […]
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Almost all children with restricted growth live to see their 18th birthday as long as they survive their first month of infancy. This is indicated in a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, which is published in the journal PLOS Medicine. Reducing child mortality is one of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, but the work is progressing slowly. […]
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Christmas is supposed to be a magical time. The season is full of gifts, bright lights, family, friends and food, and sentimentality. It brings back memories of days long since passed. But for parents? Well, for parents the Christmas season can be stressful. Scratch that: It can be hella hard because we are all trying to live up to some impossible ideal […]
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Not all heroes wear capes, and perhaps no one truly gets this more than 8-year-old Ella-Lorraine Brown. When Ella-Lorraine’s school held a Cultural Heroes Day, she opted to dress up like Michelle Obama during her Princeton days, back when she was Michelle Robinson. “She was really in awe of the idea that with hard work you could become anything,” explained Ella-Lorraine’s […]
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There’s so much preparation that gets crammed into those freakishly long nine months (that somehow also go by in the blink of an eye — what is time?) before you give birth. And though picking out a name and painting the nursery are stressful in a fun way, the reality that you’re actually going to be bringing home a small […]
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