Last year, she boarded a plane with her mother Shanell Mouland. They were on their way home from Disneyland.
Her mother decided to position her in the middle seat to stop her from opening and closing the window shutter. Mouland feared Kate’s behavior would upset other passengers.
As the plane filled, most people chose sit away from Kate. That is, with the exception of one guy. He was dressed in a business suit and bore a suitcase.
As soon as Kate saw him sit next to her, she started calling her “Daddy.” Her mother expected the stranger to ignore the little girl. But he did something awesome instead.
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Throughout the flight, the man looked after Kate. He answered her questions about turtles and let her see his iPad. Because of him, Kate had her most successful flight yet.
This prompted Mouland to write at “thank you” letter to the stranger. It became viral and soon they were able to find out who the kind stranger was. The letter goes:
“Dear ‘Daddy’,I don’t know your name but Kate called you ‘daddy’ for the entire flight last week and you kindly never corrected her. In fact, you didn’t even flinch as you could probably tell that she was not confusing you with her own ‘daddy’ but instead making a judgment regarding your level of ‘safety’ for her. If she calls you ‘daddy’ then you better believe she thinks you are alright.I sat Kate in the middle seat knowing full well that there would be a stranger sitting next to her for the duration of this flight. I had to make a quick decision and based on her obsession with opening and closing the window shade I figured she might be less of a distraction if she sat in the middle. I watched the entire Temple basketball team board the plane and wondered if one of these giants might sit by Kate. They all moved toward the back. She would have liked that, she would have made some observations that I would have had to deal with but she would have liked those players. I watched many Grandmotherly women board and hoped for one to take the seat but they walked on by. For a fleeting moment I thought we might have a free seat beside us and then you walked up and sat down with your briefcase and your important documents and I had a vision of Kate pouring her water all over your multi-million dollar contracts, or house deeds, or whatever it was you held. The moment you sat down, Kate started to rub your arm. Your jacket was soft and she liked the feel of it. You smiled at her and she said: “Hi, Daddy, that’s my mom.” Then she had you.You could have shifted uncomfortably in your seat. You could have ignored her. You could have given me that ‘smile’ that I despise because it means; ‘manage your child please.’ You did none of that. You engaged Kate in conversation and you asked her questions about her turtles. She could never really answer your questions but she was so enamored by you that she keep eye contact and joint attention on the items you were asking her about. I watched and smiled. I made a few polite offers to distract her, but you would have none of it.Kate: (Upon noticing you had an iPad) Is dis Daddy’s puduter?You: This is my iPad. Would you like to see it?Kate: To me?????? (I know she thought you were offering it to her to keep)Me: Look with your eyes, Kate. That is not yours.Kate: Dat’s nice!You: (Upon noticing that Kate had an iPad) I like your computer, too. It has a nice purple case.Kate: Daddy wanna be a bad guy? (She offered shredder to you and that, my friend, is high praise)You: Cool.The interaction went on and on and you never once seemed annoyed. She gave you some moments of peace while she played with her Anna and Elsa dolls. Kind of her to save you from playing barbies, but I bet you wouldn’t have minded a bit. I bet you have little girls, too.Not long before we landed Kate had reached her limit. She screamed to have her seatbelt off, she screamed for me to open the plane door and she cried repeating, “Plane is cwosed (closed)” over and over. You tried to redirect her attention to her toys. She was already too far gone at this point, but the fact that you tried to help your new little friend made me emotional.In case, you are wondering. She was fine the moment we stepped off the plane. Thank you for letting us go ahead of you. She was feeling overwhelmed and escaping the plane and a big, long hug was all she needed.So, thank you. Thank you for not making me repeat those awful apologetic sentences that I so often say in public. Thank you for entertaining Kate so much that she had her most successful plane ride, yet. And, thank you for putting your papers away and playing turtles with our girl.”
The letter quickly went viral and reached “Daddy at 16c” the following day. It’s been a year now since the flight and they came to know the guy. His name is Eric Kunkel from New Jersey, he’s married, and is a parent himself. He has since became good friends with the Moulands.
Thanks to a kind stranger, a little girl had one awesome flight to remember.
GoteamKateWe’re blessed to have people like “Daddy at 16c.”
Animal lovers who strongly believe that every life matters are the reason why so many strays and neglected animals find their happiness and their forever home.
Kelsey Allonge and her mom were headed to a flea market when they noticed something lying at the side of the road. As they couldn’t just keep driving, they pulled over and decided to check on the thing.
To their surprise, it was a starved horse in desperate need of help.
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The women’s hearts broke when they realized the six-month-old mare was severely neglected and beaten. One of her eyes was swollen shut, and her knee and backbone were damaged.
“Me and my mom were up to go to a swap-meet at 5:30 in the morning,” Kelsey recalls. “She just looked like a skeleton. We didn’t think she was going to make it. We just felt so bad for her, just overwhelming sadness.”
The horse, later named Sunny, hadn’t eaten in days. Thirsty, exhausted, and starving, she needed to be taken care of as soon as possible.
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This mother-daughter duo immediately canceled their plans and instead of going to the swap-meet, they headed back home to grab the trailer and transport poor Sunny to a safer place.
“For her just to lay there, she just gave up. We decided that there was nothing else to do but walk her home.”
However, this kind teen wasn’t planning on giving up on her.
Source: YouTube/ Travis A. Probst
Kelsey was determined to save this starving horse from her predicament at all costs.
However, it was impossible for the weak horse to get to the trailer so Kelsey decided to get her home by walking slowly, taking one step at a time. The trip back was more than nine miles long, but this animal lover would do anything to save her new friend.
“What kept you going, that whole way that you were walking?” a local reporter asked. “I guess just the idea that a life’s a life and no matter how small it is, she needed saving. My pain wasn’t comparable to what she was in.”
Source: YouTube/ Travis A. Probst
While driving to the swap-meet, Kelsey’s mom was supposed to take another route, but she took one wrong turn and that’s how they ended up on the road where they found Sunny. This has to be serendipity.
Kelsey then finally arrived home with Sunny after four hours.
The horse was finally home but her injuries were severe and she needed some time to recover. Kelsey was determined to help Sunny continue with her life, and she even spent five nights sleeping with her at the stall, not wanting for her to feel alone.
“If she was going to die, she wasn’t going to die alone,” Kelsey s.
Source: YouTube/ Travis A. Probst
As you can expect, these two have developed a very special bond for each other.
“She’s just like my little baby,” Kelsey said proudly. “Sunny sees me as food, but she sees Kelsey as love,” the teen’s mom funnily added.
Sunny is now loved, happy, and healthy and has a great life ahead of her.
Source: YouTube/ Travis A. Probst
Thanks to Kelsey and her mom, Sunny got a second chance in life. Isn’t this one of the most extraordinary rescue stories ever?
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No matter how often we remind our children about what is right or wrong, at the end, they choose to act and do what they see us doing. That is the reason why whenever they are around us, we should always behave the way we wish them to. If they see us fighting and getting angry over little things, they will later copy that behavior, no matter if we tell them to stay calm in certain situations.
One pastor, Ryan Marlow, is doing a great job raising his son Levi. This North Carolina family is devoted to their religion and Levi often attends his father’s service.
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One day, just as the Sunday service was about to start at the church where Ryan works, his boy decided to preach his own wisdom to the people gathered.
The little one stood in front of the people and started sharing stories. Being just 19 months old, most of the people didn’t even understand what he was trying to say, but at least he treated them with a great laugh.
Levi’s dad shared the video of the cute “speech” with his followers on the social media not knowing that the boy’s video would soon go viral.
Levi truly is a pastor in the making. For his “service,” go to the video below and don’t forget to SHARE it with your friends on Facebook! It will definitely make their day.
Josh Higgins and Heather Brough, a young couple from Highland Township, Michigan, experienced a strange encounter which forced them to make the decision to move places.
They have been living at Josh’s mother’s guesthouse, while his mom and dad reside in the main house nearby.
One morning, when Heather went to check on her 15-month-old baby daughter, she noticed Lili’s face was all covered in scratches. The sweet girl was in pain as the scratches were deep. This made Heather’s heart broke into a million pieces. What’s most, she was totally unaware of how that could happen. At first, they thought Lily scratched herself in her sleep, but they put the girl’s hands up to the scratches and it didn’t match up.
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The mom then thought of checking out the monitor footage from Lily’s bedroom and learn what was going on during the night.
Little did they know that the footage would leave them in chills.
“It was chilling. It was literally a chill down your spine. Like that ‘what if’ factor — Is this what I just saw?”
The footage showed a strange figure approaching Lily’s crib. As it came closer, the baby could be seen looking straight at the ceiling.
“I freaked out. I stopped what I was doing, and I ran upstairs, and I grabbed my daughter.”
Source: YouTube /WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7
This wasn’t the first time for strange occurrences to be taking place in the house. Heather claimed she would often hear strange noises, and one time, she felt like someone put his arm around her neck as if some spirit tired to strangle her.
The Michigan couple was convinced a “ghost” was trying to scare them and hurt their daughter. They had decided to move out of the house for Lilly’s safety.
Josh’s father believes that if there is a ghost in the house, it probably belongs to the previous owner who suffered an unfortunate death some 14 years ago, shortly before the Higgins bought the place.
Source: YouTube /WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7
The family believes that the main house, where Josh’s parents live, is also haunted. They also hear strange noises every now and then and say that the spirit that causes that must belong to the woman who lived there before and died by falling down the stairs. The two ghosts were once a brother and a sister.
Paranormal investigator, Mike Priest, inspected both places and agrees that there is something going on.
“We heard something say, ‘Oh here we go. Oh yeah.’ I heard it as plain as day,” he claimed.
As of the figure in the video, he says it could simply be something as insignificant as a moving reflection.
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Welcoming a child into your life has to be one of the most emotional moments there are. Watching the little one grow and reach milestones is what every parent dreams of, but when the moment comes for moms and dads to get back to work and leave the little one with a babysitter or at the day care, it is always overwhelming.
A mom from Washington D.C., Tisa Sinclair, experienced exactly that. She had a hard time returning to work after giving birth, but watching her baby’s reaction to her going to the day care to pick him up made her days a bit brighter.
From the moment sweet Jaxon Winder started attending daycare at just 7 months old, until today, when he’s five years old, Tisa recorded every reaction he made when he noticed her coming to get him home from day care. Believe it or not, as this sweet boy grew up, his cute reaction remained the same.
Tisa decided to make a short compilation and share it with her friends on social media after the video was set to Randy Newman’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.”
Speaking to Today Parents, Tisa said: “When I went back to work, it was really hard because I missed him terribly.
“But I knew everything was going to be OK the first time I picked him up and saw that smile.”
The video has melted millions of hearts as it has been seen by 2.3 million people on Twitter alone. “Seeing his smile is the best part of my day,” the proud mom said. “I know it’s corny, but everything that’s wrong just melts away as soon as I see him.”
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i really do love this video. i recorded my son’s pick up almost every day and this is his reaction every single time. for his 5th bday (yesterday) i took my favorites and made a lil compilation, from infancy to just last week 🤗💙 pic.twitter.com/8Hc7BjlBpF
Leaving a child behind has to be the toughest decision a parent has to make. The reasons why some parents decide to put their bundles of joy up for adoption are various. From not being able to take care of them because of poverty, to giving birth at very young age, some are forced to let go of their children because they believe that that way the little ones would get a better chance of having a decent life and receive proper education, a secure home, and better living conditions in general.
A mother named Tammy Oswalt made the decision to give her son Dylan to another family right after he was born. Saying goodbye to the little person she gave birth to was hard, but she felt it was for the best.
Over the years, she couldn’t stop thinking of him and her heart broke every time she reminded herself of her decision to put him up for adoption.
“He deserved a family with two loving parents, a stable home and everything else I couldn’t provide at the time,” the heartbroken mother said. “Since Dylan’s birth, I had essentially hated myself. It tore me up daily — wondering where he was, how he was, and if he hated me.”
Later in life, Tammy gave birth to another child, a daughter named Sammy.
Sammy knew she had a brother and wanted to meet him, but tracking him down was way harder than she thought. However, what she and Tammy didn’t know was that Dylan was as eager to meet his biological mother as they were.
Dylan managed to learn that Tammy was the mother he was looking for. One day, he contacted her through Facebook and wrote to her, “How are you, Mom?”
Recalling this moment, Tammy said, “The first time I saw that he’d called me Mom, all my fears just dissipated. I couldn’t believe it. I was so overwhelmed that I just burst into tears.”
Sammy and Dylan decided to surprise their mother on her birthday. Well, it was the surprise of a lifetime, second to none.
“Seeing how happy and emotional my biological mom was when she saw me just felt incredible. I feel more complete now in a sense. No longer is there a whole side to my life that I wonder or don’t know about,” Dylan said.
We are so happy these mother and son were able to reconnect after almost two decades.
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There’s nothing a mother wouldn’t do for the well-being of her child. From the moment they are born, children become the center of their parents’ lives. Watching them grow and turn into human beings who eventually have families on their own, the children will always be children in their parents’ eyes, no matter how old they get.
Moms and dads of children with special needs face more obstacles and challenges, but as ay other parent out there, they always go the extra mile for their little one’s happiness.
Strange occurrences
Melissa Davis, a mother of 12-year-old Camden, a boy with autism, noticed that her son’s behavior changed almost over night. Camden stopped being the calm and happy boy he used to be. Since he’s non-verbal, there wasn’t a way for this worried mother to understand what was going on. She tried to think of situations at home that could have possibly affect Camden’s behavior, but nothing came to mind.
Some of the changes she noticed were that her son started wetting the bed at night and would turn aggressive for no reason.
The school
As she was certain nothing that was happening at home could possibly force Camden to behave in a strange manner, she thought it could be something taking place at school to affect her son’s behavior.
Back in 2017, Camden joined the Hope Academy in Louisiana. The school focused on teaching children with special needs without any discrimination.
The changes at Camden started taking place around a year after he enrolled the school.
Melissa decided to place an audio recorder in her son’s bag just to be sure that nothing bad was happening in her absence. The day went on and Camden was back home from school. Melissa then took the recorder and pressed play. At that moment, her world turned upside down. What she heard broke her heart into a million pieces. Camden was severely bullied.
But it wasn’t other students who treated Camden badly, it was the teacher and the assistant.
Speaking to WBRZ, the horrified mother said:
“I just wanted to cry, scream and do everything I could because it was so bad.”
Taking action
Seeking justice, Melissa decided to post about what had happened on the social media and the printed newspapers.
“If they’re special needs, look at the situation as to why your child is acting that way because no child deserves to go through what my child did,” she advised other parents with special needs.
It went viral
The story quickly went viral.
The school’s principal then released a statement saying that the two employees involved in this incident had been fired. She also said that Melissa never approached the school before posting the audio clips on social media. The principal added:
“The parent has also refused to meet with Hope Academy to discuss the actions we have taken to address the issue.”
How would you react if you found yourself in a position to learn that your child had been bullied? Would you do the same as Melissa?
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The girl who changed how people see those that are somehow different than the rest passed away. Adalia Rose Williams impacted the lives of many. She taught the world that it’s okay to be different, because being different means being unique, and this little star was definitely unique in her own, special way.
Adalia’s life story caught the world by the storm. She was born with a condition known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, or Early-Aging Disorder, characterized by the dramatic, rapid appearance of aging beginning in childhood.
Adalia never really let her condition affect her self-esteem. She was often called the “real-life Benjamin Button,” but she always found something positive to be happy about. Her mother, Nathalie once revealed to NZ Herald, “Sometimes there are days where she [Adalia] says, ‘I wish I was taller, I wish I had hair, I wish I looked like everybody else, I wish I could do what everybody else can do. But then she’ll be like, ‘Who needs hair anyway, I have a bunch of wigs, I can have different hair every day.’” This spoke a lot of Adalia’s personality.
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The family shared the news of Adalia’s passing on the social media.
“Adalia Rose Williams was set free from this world. She came into it quietly and left quietly, but her life was far from it. She touched MILLIONS of people and left the biggest imprint in everyone that knew her, she is no longer in pain and is now dancing away to all the music she loves. I really wish this wasn’t our reality, but unfortunately, it is,” they posted on Instagram.
“We want to say thank you to everyone that loved and supported her. Thank you to all her doctors and nurses that worked for YEARS to keep her healthy. The family would now like to mourn this huge loss in private.”
Source: Instagram/Adaliarose
When Aladia was born, doctors realized she was different because she wasn’t growing as expected.
“That was one of the symptoms that first popped up, and then it was also that the skin on her tummy was really tight and just different looking,” Nathalia told the NZ Herald.
“She was diagnosed at maybe like three months old. That’s when the real changes started happening. She started losing her hair, her little veins started showing up more, and her skin thinning out a lot more. I was a single mum at the time, so when I got the diagnosis, I was alone. It was just her and I, and I honestly felt lost.”
When they were told about the diagnosis, the parents were heartbroken because there is no known cure for this syndrome and according to statistics, the life expectancy of children who have it is around 13 years. Aladia passed away at 15.
She was a mega star on the social media and had millions of followers. On her Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram account, she often posted videos and beauty tutorials, thus giving her followers a chance to see what her life was like living with the condition. The virtual world was her safe place. She felt great there because she received a number of comments from people who loved what she did and admired how she perceived life despite the difficulties she dealt with.
“Adalia has changed my life completely. It’s not like I was hateful, but I wasn’t nice to myself,” her mother Nathalie said in 2018. “I wasn’t thankful. I didn’t realize what life was until she was born. Her followers say good things to her all the time. They have constant comments about how she’s inspirational and how she doesn’t let anything stop her, and they’re right. She loves those comments.”
Adalia herself said in 2018,“I guess I am a diva because I always get what I want!” “Having a social media superstar 11-year-old, it’s crazy, especially when we are out in public — you know a lot of people recognize her,” her father, Ryan, added.
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The news of her passing was received with heartbreak by everyone who knew her personally or through her social media sites. One of the people who paid tribute to Adalia was fashion designer Michael Costello who designed the girl’s dresses back in 2019 for her 13th birthday.
“My heart is broken. I received a message at 7 pm last night, Adalia Rose Williams was called home to God. I am at a loss for words and cannot stop crying. Adalia has been so special to every single person that she met,” Costello wrote.
“She was an angel. Despite the cards she was dealt with, she had the most positive attitude and such big dreams of helping everyone around her. I love you so much, Adalia. Words cannot convey how much you’ve changed my life. I will miss you dearly, friend, and I promise to cherish all the wonderful memories we’ve had together.”
