May 2019

A five-year-old boy with Autism has been abandoned by his mother at a KFC chain in a train station in China. The child was found sitting on his own while eating French Fries believed to be left over from other customers by staff at…

Edit 1/6/2019: text has been updated to correct mention of Alejandro Jodorowsky book which was not based on scientific evidence, rather, his own assumptions. Title was changed to better reflect article. Our maternal grandmothers are…

Watching your child become seriously ill can cause the most calm and harmonious family to fall apart. What is one to do when there’s nothing to help your child feel better? Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, how much you wish it,…

The human brain contains some muscle but ultimately is a mass of gray and white matter, However, if we don’t treat it like a muscle, things can start to go. We have to flex our so-called brain muscle to help improve our memory, and…

Dana Scatton was diagnosed with a very rare type of brain cancer known as DIPG in December 2017. She was 29 weeks pregnant at the time and was given 3 months to live. Doctors reassured Dana that the radiation wouldn’t harm the baby…

Almost everyone knows someone who got very sick or died from cancer. Every single day more than 40 children are diagnosed with cancer and families’ lives are turned upside down. When parents are faced with the overwhelming stress of…

We all need to give our brains a work out sometimes with something we wouldn’t normally do. This number puzzle isn’t the norm for everyone but having a go at it will certainly give your gray matter the work out it needs. It’s made so…

Three-year-old William Bancroft was excited to go to IHOP for the first time and knew exactly what he wanted – pancakes. The little boy was born without arms and is used to eating his food with his feet. As the manager watched William…

The senseless acts of violence that are continuously committed against animals are sickening. So many people out there do not deserve a loyal pet such as a dog. In a very upsetting case recently a man threw a dog off the cliffs and into…

Being young means exploring the world and experiencing different cultures and places. Some choose to stay in their home country, while others visit a far-away country or perhaps take on a challenging activity. Twenty-one-year-old Amelia…