The author is nervous about having to share their parents as grandparents with their sister-in-law's upcoming arrival.
They rely heavily on their parents for childcare and are concerned about how the division of time and energy may affect their own children's relationship with their grandparents. [ more ]
Millions of Kids Have Been Taken In by Relatives. Soon Those Families Could Get Paid
Millions of children unable to be cared for by their parents are being taken care of by relatives, usually grandparents.
Only a fraction of these children are officially in foster care, with the majority living with their grandparents.
The number of children at risk of being separated from their parents is significant, with hundreds of thousands of cases of child maltreatment reported each year. [ more ]
Adam Kay: My life has been absolutely transformed by birth of my children
Adam Kay says his life has been absolutely transformed for the better after welcoming two children via surrogate with his husband.The former doctor-turned-comedian and writer, said he hoped his son and daughter would forgive him for the mistakes I make on the way.Kay shared the news for the first time while speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
Indigenous Leaders Elated by Supreme Court Ruling on Adoptions
Maryanna Harstad was stunned and then elated when she heard that the Supreme Court had upheld a law on Thursday aimed at keeping Native American adoptees with their tribes and traditions.Adopted herself by a white family nearly two decades before the law was passed in 1978, she was worried about the effect that overturning it could have had on Native children.
In the past year or so, people have developed an all-new appreciation for gatherings at home with family and friends.And builders and new-home buyers are in a unique position to redefine and redesign how home entertaining, relaxation, fitness, and lounging at home look and feel.Let's journey through some new-home design concepts and decor ideas that blend the way builders and buyers value flexible space.
I grew up in my parent's coney island Downriver.My father started the restaurant eight years after his family immigrated to Detroit from Poland in 1975.Going on 40 years, Pete's Place has seen many changes from the once-small coney island that served the classics with a Polish addition.Coney dogs, chili cheese fries, and large salads with extra sides of pink Greek dressing accompanied Polish dishes like stuffed cabbage, kielbasa and sauerkraut, and freshly rolled pierogi.
Man accused of Christmas Eve shooting given anti-gang injunction beforehand'
A man accused of killing a 26-year-old woman in a shooting outside a pub on Christmas Eve was served with an injunction to prevent gang violence two months before, a court has heard.Connor Chapman, 23, is accused of murdering beautician Elle Edwards when he fired 12 shots from a Skorpion sub-machine gun outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside.
New Parents Advice Full Of Wisdom, Well-Wishes! Read Now!
New parents advice flows from the mouths of experienced mothers and fathers like water on a mountain waterfall.Although advice often is filled with wisdom and well wishes, it can be overwhelming to new parents.Everyone seems to have advice on how to best take care of a new baby and how best to raise children.
Since his early 20s, Curtis Stephenson has dreamed of being a dad.As the youngest of three kids, he watched his siblings raise his nieces and nephews and thought, Oh my God, I want that, said Mr. Stephenson, the manager of a wine bar in Ottawa.Now 43, he and his partner, who is 36, have been trying to conceive a baby for more than a year.
As a stolen silver sleuth, German curator returns heirlooms Jewish families lost in the Holocaust
Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it.The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jews during the Third Reich in 1939.That's when they ordered all German Jews to bring their personal silver objects to pawn shops across the Reich one of many laws created to humiliate, punish and exclude the Jews.
Every year, as Father's Day approaches and the gift guides suggesting $300 supercharged charcoal grill lighters and backyard pizza ovens roll in, I'm left wondering if I'm truly dad enough in the kitchen.I do most of the cooking for my family.My wife is a public-school teacher with a relentless schedule who rarely has the will to make dinner.
The Hamptons Home Where Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Summered as a Child Is Listed for $55M
Realtor.com / Getty Images There are few homes in America that define a time, a place, and a heritage quite like the Bouvier family's former East Hampton estate, known as Lasata -or "place of peace."The house was built in 1917, and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis spent her summers there as a child.
Teenager handed three-year prison term for raping 12-year-old
A teenager has been sentenced to three years in prison for raping a girl when she was just 12. Myles Harris was 18 when he assaulted the girl at Gala Policies park in Galashiels, in the Scottish Borders, last year, the High Court in Edinburgh was told.Judge Lord Scott said Harris could have expected to receive a longer term in prison had he not been so young at the time of the offence.
Op-ed: Discovering a friendly prisoner of war on D-Day
This June 6 is the 79th anniversary of D-Day.In the following lightly edited and adapted excerpt from his book "News Stories," former Chicago TV news reporter Peter Nolan takes us to the city in 1944 and tells the story of one Chicago restaurant owner's role in World War II and D-Day.John Rossi was the proprietor of the House of Bertini Restaurant on Wells Street, a few blocks north of the Chicago River.
The Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin
I was 5 or 6 when I first encountered it, while rummaging through the cabinets in my grandparents' kitchen in India.Behind jars of ghee and cumin, a round metal canister shimmered midnight blue, its lid printed with images of cookies in varying designs: round, rectangular, pretzel-shaped.I fumbled with the thing, almost dropping it in my desperation, before finally twisting the lid off only to find nothing inside but loose change.
Labour's election war chest boosted by 5m megadonor
Labour's election war chest has been boosted by a car glass repair tycoon promising 5m to the party.Gary Lubner, who made hundreds of millions of pounds running the company behind Autoglass, hopes his support will keep Labour in power for a long time.He gave the party 500,000 in the first quarter of the year and said this increased significantly in the last three months.
They're in their 60s and parenting yet again, balancing the struggles, joy of adoption
The graying couple raised their right hands in the children's courthouse, as the judge swore them in.Teodulo Diarte held tight to his granddaughter Harmony as his wife, Olga Perez, kept her one good eye on their 2-year-old, Faith, who rocked back and forth.The couple, in their 60s, were preparing to adopt their two youngest granddaughters.
Trust in childhood vaccines holds steady, despite skepticism of Covid-19 vaccines, survey finds
Divisive views on the Covid-19 vaccines haven't shaken the broadly favorable views of routine childhood vaccines, a new survey suggests.Nearly nine out of 10 adults in the US say that the benefits of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines outweigh the risks a share that's remained unchanged since before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to data published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
A Supersized List of June 2023 Books By Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read
Put down the electronic devices!June is coming in hot with great books for every taste.A romance between two unlikely lovers, a travel memoir about Blacks abroad and a novel about the friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune are just a few of the things on our must-read list.These are the books by Black authors we can't wait to read this June.
This Viral Video Of An 88-Year-Old Man Teaching His Great Grandkid Is Everything
Something that becomes really clear when you enter into parenthood is that time goes by really quickly.Watching a human grow and change with our eyes is an experience that's hard to put into words, but a new viral TikTok does a great job of putting time into perspective.In the video, an 88-year-old great-grandfather, who was once worried he'd miss out on meeting his great-granddaughter, formed a heartwarming bond and taught her a great life lesson.
It Takes A Village: Build A Good Support System "Read More
That's a great idea, but upon deeper reflection, it opens up a lot of questions, especially for those moms without an overflow of support from close loved ones.These questions might look something like this: Who should be in my village?How do I find a village?Do I make a village myself?What if I'm more introverted and don't love the idea of a village of people surrounding me?
Colleges Will Be Able to Block Out a Student's Race on Admissions Applications
Each year, the million or so students applying to college through the Common App are given the option to check a box, disclosing whether they identify as Hispanic, Asian, Black or white, among other choices.Now, with the U.S. Supreme Court expected to rule soon against race-conscious admissions and with colleges wanting to follow the law the Common App has made a pre-emptive move on what is known as the race box.
Sudan conflict: 85-year-old British citizen abandoned opposite UK embassy
An 85-year-old British citizen in Sudan was shot by snipers and his wife then died of starvation after they were left to fend for themselves by the British embassy in Sudan, their family has told BBC News Arabic.Abdalla Sholgami lived with his 80-year-old disabled wife, Alaweya Rishwan, just over the road from the UK's diplomatic mission in Khartoum.
Hailing a father as a doesband' just shows how few look after their own children | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Are you a doesband?The latest irritating portmanteau refers to a husband who parents his own children.A doesband has his own hectic job, but still does his fair share at home Without Being Asked, writes Harriet Walker, the Times journalist who coined the term.A doesband knows where the Calpol is and when ballet kit is needed He gets up with the children and does bedtime; he feeds them, bathes them, does the school run; knows when their nails need to be cut and that behind their ears can get gunky.
Ask Amy: They used to love visiting grandma's farm, until this happened. What do I tell her?
Dear Amy: I love and appreciate my mother-in-law, I really do.She and her husband live about 500 miles away from us, and ever since our two children were young, she has invited them to spend three weeks during the summer at their farm, which is in a beautiful rural area.The kids love this time away, and my husband and I do, too.
Latine People Are Revealing The Most Profound Life Lesson Their Parents Taught Them
I might be biased, but I truly believe most Latine parents give the best life lessons.For instance, I always knew I could go to my mom for things I was having issues with and she would tell me what she thought in a caring yet brutally honest kind of way.And since a lot of Latine parents love to give advice to their children, I asked the BuzzFeed Community: What is the greatest life lesson you have learned from them and why has it impacted you so much?
You did it.After what can only be described in the words of George Harrison as "a long cold winter," the rites of Spring have brought with it the return of the National Pastime.Yes, Major League Baseball's Opening Day is here.This time of year brings a cornucopia of emotions to many million a baseball fan.
Republican Senator Proposes Armed Grandparents' and Bulletproof Doors' as Solutions to School Shootings
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) touted legislation she's introduced in the Senate to turn America's schools into fortresses in an effort to stop school shootings.On Tuesday's installment of Fox News Tonight, host Kayleigh McEnany noted the Biden administration's opposition to Republican calls to harden schools to prevent or mitigate mass shootings.
House Democrats Move to Force a Debt-Limit Increase as Default Date Looms
The only clue to the gambit was in the title of the otherwise obscure hodgepodge of a bill: The Breaking the Gridlock Act.But the 45-page legislation, introduced without fanfare in January by a little-known Democrat, Representative Mark DeSaulnier of California, is part of a confidential, previously unreported, strategy Democrats have been plotting for months to quietly smooth the way for action by Congress to avert a devastating federal default if debt ceiling talks remain deadlocked.
San Francisco's strange and terrible 'Crazy Bernie' saga
That was Bernie Curran's boisterous greeting to his colleagues when he walked into the Department of Building Inspection - every day, for years and years.And it hardly seems he was being facetious.Curran, who picked up the nickname "Crazy Bernie" as the hard-partying surfer dude king of the beach, transferred that persona into his day job as a building inspector and, subsequently, a senior building inspector.
Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused
It was the most personal story that Maggie Tokuda-Hall had ever written: the tale of how her grandparents met and fell in love at an incarceration camp in Idaho that held Japanese Americans during World War II.The book, called Love in the Library, is aimed at six- to nine-year-olds.Published last year by a small children's publisher, Candlewick Press, it drew glowing reviews, but sales were modest.
The unstoppable appeal of Peso Pluma and the Regional Mexican music scene
Peso Pluma performs with Becky G at the Coachella Stage during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 14.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella Peso Pluma has entered his own era.He is the future that Regional Mexican music labels have been dreaming about for the past four or five years.
We use chess as a spine': the Corsican movement teaching children moves beyond the board
The contrast couldn't be more black and white: inside the competition room at the Corsica Chess Club in Bastia, a handful of players are locked in monastic silence and iron-clad concentration over the boards.Outside in the waiting room on a Sunday in early February, 15 or so young faces are squashed against the glass of the partition doors, with dozens more children and parents behind them; they're yakking, laughing, mucking about, but above all, they are desperate to get back into the room for the next round and play more chess.
Image The artist Pablo Barba, photographed in his Long Island City, Queens, studio in front of his painting The Pizza Guy (2023).Credit...Photograph by Eric Chakeen.Artworks courtesy of the artist and A Hug From the Art World There are several paintings scattered around Pablo Barba's studio, at the end of a far-flung industrial block in Long Island City, Queens.
Life in Ukraine's Trenches: Gearing Up for a Spring Offensive
In a thicket of trees between two vast farm fields, a plywood trapdoor built into the forest floor opened to reveal stairs leading underground.Inside was a subterranean bunker, cut into the black earth, where Ukrainian troops from a mortar unit awaited coordinates for their next target.The men squeezed past one another down a shoulder-width dirt corridor lit with LED strips, staring at tablet computers showing a live drone feed of the terrain outside.
Who are the Pages of Honour and Ladies in Attendance at the coronation?
The King and Queen Consort each have four Pages of Honour supporting them on the day of the coronation schoolboys who are family friends or close relatives.Prominent among them is Charles's eldest grandson Prince George, the nine-year-old future monarch, as well as Camilla's three grandsons.The Queen Consort will also have two Ladies in Attendance her sister Annabel Elliot and her trusted friend the Marchioness of Lansdowne whose roles will be to support her through elements of the service.