“Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do,” Matt Walsh once said. Honestly, everyone who has ever experienced the joy of being a parent would say this is true. Raising a child takes a lot of patience, wisdom, and devotion, and moms and dads are always more than willing to provide all that and even more to their little treasures.
One dad from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, named Albert showed the whole country that when their kids are in danger, parents get superpowers.
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As the family was having fun in their backyard gathered around the pool, 18-month-old Rocco was chasing after a colorful ball. While he was trying to reach it, he somehow managed to wander through the gate and get into the water. That’s when Albert went into action and jumped over the 4 foot tall fence to save his son. His reaction was quick and amazed many people. With all the people who were there, Rocco wasn’t in real danger as they all saw him entering the pool, but the way Albert’s instinct kicked in is worth all the praise.
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In fact, scientists can’t really explain how parents are able to do way more than they think they are capable of when it comes to saving their kids.
We have witnessed cases where mothers lift cars to save their trapped children and now we see Albert who jumped over a fence that tall. The thing is that this phenomenon can’t be researched because in this situations everything happens in an instant.
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Speaking of the incident, Albert said how he simply did what had to be done and didn’t think of anything but getting Rocco out of the water in time. “Anybody can do that. Anybody can jump over a fence, you know. A kid’s in trouble. You know, you’ve got to get to them as quickly as you possibly can,” he told Inside Edition.
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However, he wants to urge parents to never leave their little ones out of sight because kids are curious and can easily find themselves in trouble. “You just absolutely have to keep an eye on your kids. I don’t care what measures you put in place. Tragedy can happen,” he added.
You can take a look at this super dad’s incredible stunt in the video below and never forget to be extra cautious when supervising your kids.
Eliza Curby and her partner Ben had only been dating for three months when they received the news about Eliza’s pregnancy. Although it seemed a bit sudden and they felt pretty scared, the couple couldn’t be happier because they both dreamed of creating a family and having children.
They got ready for the big arrival and were eager to meet their first born child. Baby daughter Charlie was a happy and a healthy baby that brought joy into the life of her parents. Their days were filled with excitement and they were never bored.
However, just several weeks after giving birth, mommy Eliza started feeling odd. She knew something was wrong with her body but just couldn’t figure out what.
She shares their unusual love story with News.com:
“We fell pregnant with our first, Charlie, three months after we started dating!
Ben had always been super keen to become a father so we were over the moon at the thought of creating our own little family.
Needless to say the decision was taken out of his hands – I win!”
Being a mother meant the world to Eliza who believed her body was in the midst of something strange.
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She was experiencing dizziness and was feeling exhausted most of the time. At one moment she though she could be pregnant again but Charlie was only six weeks old so she convinced herself that her state was due to all the commitments she had such as taking care of the baby and the house, and running errands.
However, she couldn’t help by ponder over the fact that she could be expecting another baby. She even shared her thoughts with Ben.
“I was exhausted trying to figure out the ins and outs of being a mum, but about a month after having Charlie though I felt really, super exhausted.
Everyone told me it was sleep deprivation catching up with me but I was not convinced – I remember looking at Ben and saying, ‘I think I’m pregnant.’
He just laughed.”
Charlie had already turned their life upside down, so having more children that soon seemed like the craziest thing ever.
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But mothers’ instinct almost never fails them, and Eliza’s was telling her to buy some pregnancy tests in order to be able to learn what was really going on. And four tests later, her assumptions were confirmed. She is having another baby!
And if the couple thought this came as a surprise, wait until you see the shock on their faces when the doctor told them that there wasn’t one baby, but two. Yes, they were having twins.
She shared what happened in the doctor’s office that day with News.com:
“The technician seemed awkward and uncomfortable, before he finally said, ‘Look, it’s early days…. but…. I think there’s two.’
And it turns out there was!
I was so scared but secretly super excited – I think everyone has a secret desire for identical twins.”
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The second pregnancy went as smoothly as the first one, and at 36 weeks, the baby boys were delivered without any complications.
Jack Antony Richard and Wolfe George Harry were born in perfect, healthy condition – Ben, Eliza and Charlie were thrilled to meet the newest editions to their family!
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Having three children isn’t easy, especially when they are same age, but life is fun under the roof of this lovely family. The parents even started a blog they call “twingenuity” where they share fun stories of their every day life.
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Both Ben and Eliza are beyond grateful for their big family. They are the perfect example that we can’t always plan things ahead because God often has other plans. We are happy for this couple and we wish them only the best.
Kevin Grant is a sadistic 31-year-old man from Naugatuck, Connecticut, who doesn’t deserve to be called human. His twisted brain and abusive nature forced his step-son to go through hell while under his care. The poor boy’s mother, 29-year-old Kaitlin Elizabeth, witnessed the severe abuse and cruelty her son suffered on a daily basis and did nothing to prevent it.
The poor boy was forced to drink hot sauce until he vomited and was left to sleep in the laundry room and the garage for months.
He wasn’t even allowed to get outside in order to use the bathroom. Instead, the lunatic of a step-father made him urinate in his pants and forced him kneel on hard and uncooked rice and tacks for an entire day. In one occasion, when the little brother hurt his head after he fell on a table, his poor brother was grounded for no reason and was left to stand on his feet facing the wall for an entire week. He even ate in that position.
This was just a tiny bit of all the things the boy went through while sharing the house with the crazy step-father and his even crazier mother who watched the abuse taking place right before her eyes.
It has been reported how the boy would do push-ups until his fragile arms would completely give up. Once, Kevin put a bottle rocket into the boy’s mouth which caused him severe injuries.
Luckily, the suffering was put to an end on October 1, after the state Department of Children and Families got an anonymous tip about the abuse.
The Hartford Courant reported that Kevin has been arrested and charged with second-degree assault, intentional cruelty to persons, risk of injury to a child, second-degree reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct but was released by posing bail amount of $25,000. The careless mother was also charged with injury to a child, second-degree reckless endangerment and conspiracy to commit both intentional cruelty to persons and disorderly conduct. She posted bail amount of $10,000 and was also released. The two wrongdoers are to appear at court on November 1.
We honestly hope they will get the punishment they deserve and that’s long years behind bars.
Losing a parent means losing a part of you, especially when you are young and can’t understand why your mom or dad whom you love unconditionally are no longer around. The pain is enormous and seems like it won’t fade away no matter how much time passes by. Thankfully, during our heartbreak, we usually have kind people around us who help us overcome the grief eventually, if that’s even possible.
Kingston Technology is sharing a mini movie based on a true story that won’t leave anyone indifferent.
Watched by over 7.4 million people, this video is tugging at heartstrings.
Little Jerry lost his mom and he’s now asking from the officer on the other side of the line to help him find her in Heaven. Officer Lee picks up the call, not aware of the words he is about to listen to.
But how do you tell a five-year-old that their mother will never come back and she will never sing to them again? You just don’t.
Officer Lee tells Jerry to get a red balloon and write a message to his mom on a piece of paper and then let it fly high to the sky and reach her. Jerry buys plenty of red balloons and writes many heartbreaking messages, but they don’t go to his mom. So he calls Lee again, and what the officer does next will leave you in tears. His kind deed changes Jerry’s days and helps him ease his pain.
The video is something worth watching and sharing with others. Take a look at it below.
The gruesome murder of pregnant mother of two, Shanann, who was carrying a boy, and her two daughters Bella and Celeste which took place in 2018 is still shaking the whole country as new details emerged after Netflix aired the murder-based documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door.
The killer is the husband and father Chris Watts, who at the time of his family’s “disappearance” asked the public to help him find them and prayed for them to get back home safely knowing he murdered them mercilessly and dumped their bodies at an oil field.
Shanann’s relationship with her murder husband seemed like a normal one. She would often describe him like a caring father. Just months before she was killed, she wrote on Facebook, “He’s my rock! He takes care of us girls unconditionally! Thank you baby for holding down the fort this weekend! Love you,” according to The Sun.
Chris was charged with five counts of first-degree murder, three counts of tampering with a deceased human body, and one count of unlawful termination of pregnancy.
He pleaded guilty and received five life sentences. He’s currently serving prison time at the maximum-security prison in Wisconsin.
The reason behind the cold-blooded murder was Chris’ affair with his colleague, Nichol Kessinger. He believed his family was standing on his way to happiness with Nichol who claimed she wasn’t aware her boyfriend was expecting his third child and believed he and wife Shanann were separated. She only came forward with the affair after she learned Chris’ family “went missing.”
According to the documentary, Chris and Shanann got into a fight the night she was killed and he confessed to her there was another woman in his life. “In that fight he essentially confessed to having an affair, that he wanted a divorce. That it was pretty much over between them, and she had said something to the effect of, ‘well you’re not going to see the kids again.’ As a consequence of that conversation he strangled her to death,” said lawyer Steven Lambert who is representing the victim’s family, as reported by Mirror.
According to ABC7, Chris spoke of the killing from prison and recalled how his daughter Bella, who was 4 years old, saw him wrapping her mother’s body and asked, “What are you doing to mummy?” He continued, “I was just getting the sheet off the bed and she walked in, and she had her little pink blanket with her. She was like, ‘What’s wrong? What’s wrong with mommy?'”
Chris then took his wife’s dead body and put it into the car along with his two girls who were unaware of what was going on. Once at the oil field, Chris killed his younger daughter, 3-year-old Celeste, while Bella begged him not to do the same to her.
“He walks over and takes Cece’s favorite blanket and smothers her. At that point, Bella says: ‘Please, daddy, do not do to me what you just did to Cece,'” Lambert said.
Bella tried to escape, but she failed and was soon killed the way her mom and sister were. According to Daily Star, Bella bit her tongue as her dad suffocated her.
“Those are my kids, that’s my baby, I talk to them every night,” Chris told investigators from prison. “I don’t see how this could happen. Every time I see pictures of them I don’t know how this could have happened… Couldn’t have I just saved my girls’ life? Couldn’t I have done something? Why did I…I don’t know. Like this is my flesh and blood, this what…like, what I wanted all my life is to be a dad, to have kids and they love me… Nothing made sense. Like the oil tank, nothing made sense.”
Before he confessed to what he did, he claimed it was Shanann who killed her daughters and he then did the same to her, but he later said those were false accusations. His girlfriend Nicole has always claimed she had no involvement in the murders and has never been charged concerning the case.
Take a look at the Netflix’s documentary’s official trailer below and learn more of the case.
This situation has turned out to be an unexpected one!
Many have credited social media as an extremely powerful platform to connect people from all walks of life, and that is especially true for two mothers from Alabama – after an incident at their local movie theatre. The two women got to know each other personally after one of the women apologized for her daughters’ “rude and obnoxious” behavior via Facebook, days after the matter had happened.
Kyesha Smith Wood had allowed her son, daughter and step-daughter to go watch Cinderella at their local movie theater. However, the two girls were laughing and talking loudly throughout the movie, and even kicked Rebecca Boyd’s seat.
“I turned around and I said, ‘You know girls, we paid for this movie just like you did. Could you guys keep it down?’ They just laughed. After I spoke to them, they seemed to not care. They just laughed in my face,” Boyd recalls.
After the movie has ended, Wood’s son told her about his two sisters’ misconduct. This has led her to utilise social media to locate Boyd herself. Embarassed by her daughters’ behaviour, Wood has expressed her sincere apologies to make it up to Boyd and her daughter.
“After the movie she approached my girls and told them that her husband had been laid off and this was the last movie she would be able to take her daughter to for a while and my girls ruined that for her.”
Thanks to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page where they had shared Wood’s post, the viral story has since generated more than 250,000 likes! Boyd then contacted Wood after seeing the shared post. After meeting Boyd in person, Wood also passed the apology letter which her daughters had written, along with some of their allowance meant for Boyd’s next movie trip. Since then, both families have even became great friends!
There isn’t any situation I can think of that violence is acceptable in normal situations, violence against women is just the worse of the worse!Many people find it hard to understand why any woman in an abusive or violent situation, where she keeps getting beaten, would choose to stay in that position.
But the fact is that it’s not altogether easy to escape those situations, in some cases the cycle of abuse makes many women feel trapped in those situations.Perhaps no one could really understand those kinds of situations completely unless you have been trapped in that situation yourself!
If you have been physically and psychologically beaten into submission for such a long time then you too would probably have very little energy, drive, or fight left to be able to get away either.
YoutubeThe guy in the video below definitely is not right in some way or other, he and a woman are walking down the street when he grabs her firmly by the arms and hits her in the face so violently that she goes to the floor!
Just a few seconds after this a group of men rush down the street…
YoutubeThe group surround the guy and punch him, teaching him a lesson, he will never forget a lesson like that for sure! Well, maybe the karma will teach him a thing or two about how that feels?
That video has been going around online, all over, in fact, it has been seen right around the world, many people think that he got what he deserves!Youtube
I think that violence breeds violence and we should never use violence against people, but every now and again this kind of karma seems to balance the scales.Have a look at the video here to see what went on, WARNING: graphic images!A cautionairy video, see karma at work, in this awakening video, SHARE with friends and family!
It’s very common for the children of celebrities to follow into their famous parents’ footsteps. But having a mom or a dad, or sometimes both, who are widely recognized for what they do can be both a curse and a blessing. People tend to believe that these children have it easy as they have someone who pushes them forward, but many times, they also feel the pressure to reach the success of their parents, which isn’t always easy.
Billy Joel, the creator of some of the most famous music hits ever, such as Piano Man, which became a top 20 single, New York State of Mind, Just the Way You Are, which earned him two Grammy’s for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, Uptown Girl, We Didn’t Start the Fire, and a lot more, is one of the best musicians the world knows of.
His album The Stranger, done in collaboration with well-known producer Phil Ramonewas ranked by the Rolling Stone Magazine at number 67 on its 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
So, getting even close to what this man has accomplished sounds quite impossible, but it looks like his daughter Alexa Ray Joel is on the right path to gain fame in the world of music herself.
Alexa was born on January 1, 1986. Billy and her mother, model Christie Brinkley met back in 1983 in the Caribbean paradise of St. Bart’s. The moment he laid eyes on the gorgeous blond, he immediately tried to impress her. “I tried to look like me on an album cover. I gave it every angle I could,” he told the Rolling Stone. However, things didn’t work that time. But when Christie’s boyfriend died in a tragic car accident, Billy met her in the Caribbean and the two became a couple.
They married on a yacht in New York Harbor.
Despite her parents being under the spotlight practically their whole lives, Alexa had a very normal childhood. But just when she was eight years old, they divorced. Although those were hard times for the family, they always remained close. Even today, all three of them own houses in Sag Harbor, New York.
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Alexa fell in love with music from very early age. She recalls her dad singing lullabies and playing the piano to her. “We would sit around and play music,” she said. “[Dad] would play piano, I would sing ‘Sound of Music,’ and mom would dress me up. I just had so much fun with them that I never got into the crazy party scene.”
“My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad. Both of them are real hams; it was like vaudeville in East Hampton.”
Alexa attended the New York University as a musical theater student but decided to take a leave of absence to focus on her career.
“I mean, obviously, my parents are kind of a big deal so there was a lot of pressure there for me to kind of be seen in my own light and pave my own way,”, she said.
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In 2005, Alexa and her band performed all around the U.S. In 2007, she released her first independently distributed EP in 2007 and took part at many festivals such as Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Since both she and her dad are musicians, it doesn’t come as a surprise that they perform together occasionally. “I learned about embracing all different genres as opposed to just getting attached to one. I just learned so much from him. He’s like a musical encyclopedia,” she said.
Alexa was also part of numerous fashion events in New York where she performed and interviewed celebrities and designers.
In 2008, she was on the cover of BELLA Magazine’s Beauty Issue. “I don’t like the idea of fashion having to be something you have to follow. You have to dress to empower yourself. That’s what it’s all about,” Alexa said.
There were rumors that she has undergone plastic surgeries and she slammed US Weekly for publishing about her. “The continuously-circulating rumors that I have had extensive ‘face-work’ and undergone breast-augmentation surgery is simply and entirely 100 percent false,” she wrote on Instagram. “The only thing I have ever had done is my nose, which I have always been completely candid, honest and open about.” She also added, “Obviously, I’m going to look different. It’s called ‘growing up’! I’m very sorry to disappoint everyone who wants to believe that I have had multiple surgeries, but that just simply isn’t true.”
34-year-old Alexa is engaged to restaurateur Ryan Gleason.
Back in 2017, when he proposed to her, she shared the news on Instagram and wrote, “So I was completely taken off-guard, dumbstruck, and shell-shocked- and FOR ONCE in my life, I had absolutely no words, and I couldn’t speak,” wrote Joel. “I just kept staring at this ridiculously exquisite ring — and he was just hysterically laughing at me!!!”
“He said to me: ‘Before I met you, my world was in black and white. You colored it in between the lines.’ It was the most beautiful thing anybody’s ever said to me. How could I possibly say no to that?!?!”
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Today, it looks like she’s back at the studio and focused on her music career again.
