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Where did the humble teddy bear originate from?

Written by: LianneFisher, on 05/22/2013
The term teddy bear originates from a pet name of a former United States president, namely Theodore Roosevelt, who was commonly known as Teddy, who during a bear hunting trip, refused to shoot a captured bear. This particular incident was immortalised in a political cartoon in the Washington Post which was seen by Morris Michtom, who went on to create a little stuffed bear and the rest is history.There is no doubt that the humble teddy bear appeals to all ages, as is te...

Kindness Makes One Happy

Written by: prabhakar jha, on 05/22/2013
According to Bacon "Reading maketh a full man : writing an exact man and confrence a ready man."All over it makes education. Education pays only when we use it in right way.Once I saw a child working in the dhaba. then I went to their parents who were very poor. Then I went to his parents and told them to send their children to school. I told them that government has opened many school where eduction is free for all .By hearing this they were amazed. From that day they allowe...

Kindness Makes One Happy

Written by: prabhakar jha, on 05/22/2013
According to Bacon "Reading maketh a full man : writing an exact man and confrence a ready man."All over it makes education. Education pays only when we use it in right way.Once I saw a child working in the dhaba. then I went to their parents who were very poor. Then I went to his parents and told them to send their children to school. I told them that government has opened many school where eduction is free for all .By hearing this they were amazed. From that day they allowe...

Keep Going And Never Give Up !!

Written by: fiya.jackson, on 05/12/2013
My family liked the outdoors. While I was growing up, my father would go hunting and fishing and all the things that a real man loves to do. I admired that about him. He really tried to be a good father but he often fell short. He married my mother at 18 and they begin to travel the world after he joined the military. My brothers was born in Montgomery Al, and I was born in Honolulu Hi. He was a man that believed in taking care of his family and doing what he had to do to sur...

Me, my sneakers and Ben Affleck

Written by: jillatbgg, on 05/11/2013
I run. I don’t have a runner’s body. But I have the spirit. I am slow, but I’m a scrapper. I put on my sneakers and plug through the miles. At times, I am not as consistent as I’d like and right now, I am working out of my winter hibernation.A little tired and about 25 minutes out, I rolled my ankle and my leg buckled. And in the most ungraceful manner, my feet went out from under me. My head and shoulders plunged forward toward the ground. My palms met the curb. T...

She taught me to love

Written by: cindy, on 05/05/2013
I love being a mother. It's a beautiful gift like none I could have imagined. My capacity to love and be love has increased tenfold through my experience of motherhood. in part, okay maybe more than that, I owe to my mother for she taught me how to love by loving me. Now that I have grown, with a family of my own, she is my friend and mentor. I have heard it said, we love that which we serve and oh how my mother loved her family. She sang, taught, cooked and gave. May...

In The News: Bullying in Schools Comes to a Higher Peak

Written by: lenarai, on 05/03/2013
Bullying is such a serious factor in today's schools. If it's not your clothes, your hair, your sexual orientation, or your shoes… then it's your mental capacity. I am in constant battle with my children's school on this bullying thing. I understand in most cases kids will be kids, but this is getting pure ridiculous!! These offenders should be taught a serious lesson. Instead the kids that are doing everything in their will power to defend themselves get into trouble. I go...

Lost Wallet

Written by: Girlboxer1970, on 05/03/2013
This past Friday I took my daughter Tesla to the Galleria Mall in York. We ate at the food court--at the time I didn't even think about the recent roach infestation--she had McDonald's chicken nugget happy meal and I opted for an over-priced, fancy salad from the Salad Works restaurant. Things were going down well though Tesla felt her chicken nuggets were a bit over-cooked. I convinced her, after tasting a bite, that they were the same old nuggets she always orders. She...

A Conversation Over Dinner

Written by: AsiaStewart, on 05/01/2013
The bedroom is shrouded in darkness with wisps of light streaming into the room from the radiance of a midnight moon, its ascent clear through the broad glass windows that line the walls. This light is only matched by the artificial, brash light of a lamp, digital clock and a Blackberry, emanating from a night table adjacent to a great canopy bed. From this light I can see the spotless room I walk into, the walls dry of a finger’s smear and gleaming wooden floors clean of a s...

Keeping a Lid on It

Written by: shamaker, on 04/30/2013
Today, I shouted at my kids. Yes, it's true. And it wasn't really for anything they were doing, except they were playing loudly inside (raining outside precluded my fix it "Go play outside and don't come in until I call you")and I was tired, with dinner and kitchen cleaning and the list goes on until I could relax. After apologizing for my outburst (gotta set a good example), I reminded myself to enjoy them, to smile more at their antics than I frown, to remember my own chi...

Yard Work and Food in the Fridge

Written by: SamanthaBise, on 04/08/2013
I am between apartment leases right now, so a few weeks ago I moved back in with my parents. It is only for the next six months, but it is amazing how much five years can change your perspective and your relationship with your parents.Obviously, there are pros and cons to living at home as a 20-something year old.I respect my parents more as a 22-year-old than I did as a 17-year-old. (This could be because as a teenager, they had to support me by law, and now they could e...

Her Very Own Pet

Written by: carasue, on 04/08/2013
The bird died yesterday. This wasn’t just any bird. Cody was a beautiful 1-year-old lovebird. He belonged to my daughter who had spent the better part of a year working to earn him. Two Christmases ago she was gravely disappointed when Santa did not bring the bird she had requested. I explained to her that birds are a big responsibility. I outlined the work involved. Actually I outlined what I imagined to be the work involved and then exaggerated a little because I didn’t w...

The Best Day of My Life

Written by: aggienlp, on 04/06/2013
I knew he was going to be a feisty one the minute they pulled him from my body. The cries were angry and strong and didn’t stop quickly. I had been induced at 7:15 that morning, and when they told me to start pushing, I had one goal; to do my job so that I could finally meet this sweet little boy I had known and loved from the minute I found out about him eight and a half months earlier. I’ve never been the type of woman who liked surprises, so we already knew he was a boy...

Momma's Cookin'

Written by: seamstressofwords, on 04/04/2013
No matter how old you get, or whatever may happen in your life, your mouth will always water at the thought of your mother's home cooking. I don't know what it is about home cooking--maybe it's all the memories--but there's nothing quite like eating your mother's cooking. Being away at school has amplified this feeling for me. Eating crappy dining hall food, or even my own semi-decent cooking, makes me yearn for the days where I had my mom cook dinner for me every night. When...

Letting Go

Written by: mesp1986, on 04/04/2013
You: Can go weeks without talking to your kids.Me: My whole day is off if they are away.You: Prefers to spend your weekends drinking and "clubbing."Me: Prefers family fun nights.You: Show your status by brand name clothes, fancy electronics & expensive cars.Me: Show my status by working hard and trying to be a good mom.You: Think money is power.Me: Thinks education is power.You: Are happy with your life.Me: I'm happy with mine.Point is, I'm wasti...

No Fear : Explaining To My Kids Their Daddy is in a coma.

Written by: Evil Joy Speaks, on 03/20/2013
No Fear : Explaining To My Kids Their Daddy is in a coma.Seriously - this was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Putting on a brave face and explaining to my four children their daddy was very, very sick. We could go in and see him, but not touch him. He looks like he’s sleeping, and there’s all sorts of funny machines hooked up to him. We can talk to him but he won’t answer. Figuring out how to be happy to see them when I didn’t have any happiness in me. Figuring ou...

I Don't Know How They Do It

Written by: Kwweesten, on 03/11/2013
I watched as he sat at her feet and yanked her pant leg continuously as his mother tried to have a conversation with the woman standing beside her. “Mom, I’m hungry! Mom…Mom!”OH MY GOD, FEED YOUR SON!After spending my Sunday at a five year olds birthday party, I have seriously questioned having kids in my life. Not that I don’t like kids, but my god, these parents must be saints for the patience they have. I couldn’t help but laugh when I witnessed a father sprinting over...

The Bookmarks Of Hope

Written by: DarkStar49, on 03/09/2013
Some years ago, in the fall of 2006 to be exact, I read a story that absolutely grabbed me. I can’t describe the feeling of being ‘grabbed’ by something you read about, but I can tell you that my reaction was immediate and of heartfelt urgency. A young girl, 12 at the time, was going through chemo treatment for leukemia at Children’s Hospital in the lower 48, a great distance from her home, familiar surroundings and the friends she knew. Thousands of lonely and scary mile...

Yo Momma, you the bomb

Written by: Girlboxer1970, on 02/27/2013
“I’ve never let my schooling get in the way of my education.” M. Twain I graduated from high school in 1989 and began college in 2010. The education I received in high school did not prepare me for life. Twenty-one years later the education that I receive in college will improve my career opportunities but still does not prepare me for life. The two educations in academic settings do not limit or define the knowledge I gained. Schooling is important, but life itself is ...

Outdoor Fun

Written by: shamaker, on 02/27/2013
Some of my best childhood memories involve a drainage ditch that ran between two streets near my house. My BFF Robyn and I spent countless hours playing there, jumping from rock to rock, climbing the banks, following the little stream of water to its end in a bigger creek, finding treasures, and watching bugs. It was a child’s paradise.When we weren’t playing in the ditch, we were riding our bikes, playing Ghosts in the Graveyard with the other neighborhood kids, jumping ro...

The Wonderful Whiteness of The Wait

Written by: MariaRose, on 02/26/2013
The snow is pelting my Midwestern town, not spiraling from the skies but plummeting down in sheets. School was let out two hours early in anticipation, a rare move for a community unfazed by anything under four inches. But the roads are bad and getting worse, and there are teenage drivers to be worried about. So students head home from school and parents from work to button down the hatches and begin The Wait. The Wait is the key period in a snowstorm wherein it is useles...

My Wish

Written by: BobbiJoEisenreich, on 02/25/2013
I grew up wanting an older brother or sister. Sandy may have received a list or two from me with the ask of an older sibling. Even though Santa was a good friend of mine, he never brought me a sibling. He brought me everything else on my list. If only he would have brought me a sibling, he would have been my hero.It wasn’t meant to be. No one ever told me I wouldn’t or couldn’t have an older sibling. When I was old enough I figured that out all by myself. The topic...

At least it is temporary pain

Written by: Girlboxer1970, on 02/15/2013
My daughter lives with her father. Not her choice and not mine. A judge decided my daughter should stay in the house she's been since her birth. Now I only get her every other weekend. It is painful to be separated from your child.Two weeks is a long time to not see your 6 year old. I try to talk to her everyday but there are difficulties in dealing with her father. Oh, and her father's girlfriend. She is living large in my home, referring to my child as her own. It...

Kids Activities

Written by: Girlboxer1970, on 02/14/2013
My sons didn't want to play baseball, or wrestle, or lacrosse. They are adults now.My daughter wants to participate in everything. She is six. Some activities are for a few weeks, months or a season. I don't push her to join groups she is not interested in. On the other hand, I don't want her sitting around doing nothing. One Wednesdays, she bowls. Starting in April she will play softball. She wants to take horseback-riding lessons...and swimming in the summer. An...

Headphones and PS3

Written by: Girlboxer1970, on 02/14/2013
My son moved back home at the age of 19. It's nice having him around. Well, sometimes it's nice. He creates extra work and eats a ton of food. By looking at him you would think he is starved. He got the "tall genes" from his pops.My son works, eats, sleeps and plays Playstation 3 when he isn't working eating or sleeping. I don't mind so much but he yells at the people he is playing against. He is loud and gets wound up. He sounds like a crazy man and I like mocking ...

A Precious Moment

Written by: Robin, on 02/01/2013
The curtain was drawn around his cubicle to give the elusion of privacy. Dad laid on the bed waiting for the nurse to take him to surgery. He told me, his favorite (and only) daughter, that if he didn't make it through surgery, that he had done almost everything that he wanted to do. I heard the word almost and asked, "What is the one thing that you haven't done?" We made our deal --- If he made it through surgery and got well enough to travel, I would take him half way acros...

When Will We Feel Safe Again?

Written by: rachel_engel, on 01/30/2013
When the CNN Breaking News notification popped up on my phone, I barely glanced at it. Another shooting? Terrible, but sadly, becoming the norm. I closed my eyes, thanked the gods that my daughter was 15-months-old and asleep in her crib, and continued my morning routine. After lunch, I turned on the national news, and the full force of the tragedy hit me. Those parents waiting for agonizing hours to find out if their world was going to be turned upside down. The children b...

Newtown: Everybody Take a Breath

Written by: shamaker, on 01/23/2013
The tragic shooting at the Newtown school has unleashed a firestorm of controversy, from gun control to mental health services to school security measures. With three children at our local public elementary, I urge everyone to slow down. We as Americans hit the ground running to change whatever might have triggered a tragedy without taking the time to think clearly and calmly about whether or not something really needs to be fixed. We might need to re-examine our gun cont...

My thoughts on Newton: A time to refocus on life

Written by: Krissie, on 01/10/2013
As a mother and teacher, I have had a difficult time trying to get my head and heart around the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings. For me, the most challenging part has been trying to understand how such an evil act could prevail against our most vulnerable, our most beautiful, and our most cherished. Those twenty six and seven year olds went to school that December day thinking only of the pictures they would draw, the stories they would read, the games they would play, and th...

Why Don’t We Play With Our Kids?

Written by: azabinsky, on 01/03/2013
It’s a few days after Christmas and the playplace is swarming with parents and children. I’ve been here a few times before and it has, in fact, never been so busy. The layout of the facility is thrilling for kids. Numerous “pretend” areas all have their own sections: a supermarket, a veterinary office, a fire station, a costume shop, a bakery, etc. The back is filled with an indoor playground, complete with pretend tree house and twisty slide. Toys and play equipment litter t...

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