7+ mon, 4+ week ago (408+ words) Chappell Roan says having kids is hellish " and not all parents are upset about it. "All of my friends who have kids are in hell," the "Hot to Go!singer shared on aMarch 26 episodeof the podcast "Call Her Daddy." "I actually don't know anyone who is like, happy and has children at this age," [] Chappell Roan says having kids is hellish " and not all parents are upset about it. "All of my friends who have kids are in hell," the "Hot to Go!singer shared on aMarch 26 episodeof the podcast "Call Her Daddy." "I actually don't know anyone who is like, happy and has children at this age," said Roan, 27, adding, "I have literally not met anyone who is happy, anyone who has light in their eyes, anyone who has slept." "This is not looking too good," responded Alex Cooper,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago (342+ words) A rock band of three young kids has taken social media by storm after an X user posted a clip of their DIY music video filmed using a Ring doorbell camera. The video opens with one of the kids asking his mom if they can use the Ring camera to make a music video. Mom enthusiastically replies, "Heck yeah." Meanwhile, Luminati Suns dropped this cool music video, harkening back to the days of 90s and 2000s alt-rock. Taking advantage of the Ring cam's fisheye lens, the kids tapped into a bygone method of filmmaking. The wholesomely homemade feel of the whole thing, not to mention the kids shredding pretty hard, captured hearts on social media. Meanwhile, the song is a reworked cover of "note to self" by Gabriela Bee and was released in October alongside a lyric video. It has since racked…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago (433+ words) A toddler from West Virginia is going viral for her questionable parenting style when putting her baby doll down for the night. In a clip on TikTok, Brandi Mills hands her toddler, Laney, the little girl's doll to put to bed. The interaction starts off innocently, with the 19-month-old taking the doll in her hands. Mills, 39, told Newsweek that her daughter had received the doll as a Christmas gift "that she loves" and therefore thought she'd show a little more love to the new toy. "I found the doll, and told her to put her baby to sleep, thinking I would get a usual sweet, nurturing moment," she said. However, instead of handling the baby doll with extra care, Laney promptly drops her into the crib and hurls the doll's bottle against the wall where it ricochets into the crib....

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (411+ words) I'd like you to be there with me." There? As in there, in the delivery room? My nanny plan was as follows: (1) they would call when it was time, and (2) I would come to the birthing center. Beyond that, I didn't know what else to expect. My most important pre-labor action was reassuring them that no decision is written in stone. Finally, D-Day arrived. As a mom, my instinct was to take charge. I fought that instinct with every bit of strength in me, reminding myself that this was not my experience. On the list of decision-makers, I was at the very bottom. My job was to be a supporter, not a leader. I was like the second-string quarterback " ready for action but hanging back until the coach told me I was needed. I did small things. I told my…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago (407+ words) Out of all the parenting tips I read as a new mom, one piece of advice has stayed with me all these years: "Start as you mean to continue." It was a helpful reminder for times when I was exhausted, and the path of least resistance was more appealing. Did it really matter if my baby slept on my chest for just one night? Did I really need to teach my toddler to brush his own teeth instead of just doing it for him? Wasn't it easier to just let them stay up later than enforce a bedtime? You see where I'm going with this. "Start as you mean to continue" requires consistency and determination " but I've found that the results are worth the effort. Now that they are older, we have two rules we never bend with our kids....

8+ mon, 3+ week ago (522+ words) Natalie "Nadya" Suleman is doing her best to raise a family of 14. Suleman found fame in 2009 " and earned the nickname "Octomom" " after giving birth to the world"s first surviving set of octuplets. While raising six children born before the octuplets and juggling a full-time college schedule, Suleman faced backlash for being "this unemployed welfare recipient," which she told People magazine "was not the case at all." Though she feels she "failed" her older children by being "permissive," Suleman implemented strict rules in her home to ensure the octuplets were raised to succeed." "I personally believe I failed as a parent to implement all of the knowledge I acquired in college," she said of her six older kids. "I raised them just permissive, which is wrong. You shouldn"t do that. You should implement consistent structure, discipline and consequences, plus…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago (626+ words) On a cold night in February, the restaurant Cocina Consuelo in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan was, as it always is on Mondays, closed, but its tiny kitchen was a swirl of activity. "Of course I'm cooking on my birthday and my day off!" said the chef Karina Garcia as she assembled a strawberry [] On a cold night in February, the restaurant Cocina Consuelo in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan was, as it always is on Mondays, closed, but its tiny kitchen was a swirl of activity. "Of course I'm cooking on my birthday and my day off!" said the chef Karina Garcia as she assembled a strawberry tres leches cake topped with meringue and a flurry of fresh chamomile, mint, basil and dill for the friends and family who'd gathered to celebrate with her. The evening marked…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago (500+ words) HUNTSVILLE, Ala (WHNT) " For the past 6 months, when you've heard the name "Dumas," it's been about the abducted Huntsville realtor who is still missing, but Wednesday night, it was all about his son, Kai, who turned 13 years. As Kai walked out of the Lego store, he heard a loud combination of horns honking, police sirens, and engines revving. "At first, I'm thinking, "What is this?' that's when everyone yelled surprise," Kai Dumas said. "I'm like, "Wait a minute, did I pass out?" It's no secret Kaia and his siblings have had a hard year since their father went missing and is yet to be found, but that shouldn't stop the'celebration he deserves. "They don't deserve the situation they've been put into," said James Andrews. Andrews is the Dumas family's private investigator. "Some bad people put Ronnie and his family in…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago (541+ words) Oregon dad Mason Smith wants to make the internet a better place, one do-it-yourself project at a time. Known as Oregon dad Mason Smith wants to make the internet a better place, one do-it-yourself project at a time. Known as "Dad Social" to his 12+ million combined social media followers, the father of three has quickly earned an online following for posting short videos of the fun and creative projects he does for his family and his community. Some of his recent viral video projects include building an in-ground trampoline, a kids" camper, a "Polar Express" Christmas parade float and renovating a basketball court for his local elementary school." "The internet is such a dark place and I don"t think it needs any more negativity," Smith told Fox News Digital." "Above all else, I want my kids to have the…...

6+ mon, 13+ hour ago (544+ words) Sixty-four years ago, Connie Francis recorded "Pretty Little Baby" as one of dozens of songs in a marathon recording session that yielded three albums within two weeks. It did not, at the time, feel like a song that had the makings of a hit, so it landed on the B-side of the 1962 single "I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter" that was released in Britain. Since then, it was more or less overlooked. Then came TikTok and its canny ability to resurrect decades-old songs for a new generation. Over the last few weeks, "Pretty Little Baby" has been trending on the social media app " it has been featured as the sound in more than 600,000 TikTok posts and soared to top spots in Spotify's Viral 50 global and U.S. lists " bolstered by celebrities and influencers, like Nara Smith, Kylie Jenner, and Kim Kardashian and…...