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7-year-old Bobby Montoya dresses and acts like a girl.
Bobby Montoya is biologically a boy. But he is called she. She looks like a girl, dresses like a girl and acts like a girl. So it was no surprise when she wanted to become a Girl Scout.
But, as the Huffington Post reports, when her mother, Felisha Archuleta, tried to sign her up with a troop leader in Denver, they were denied because regardless of how the 7-year-old feels, the troop leader said Bobby has “boy parts.”
Archuleta tells 9 News she said, ‘Well, what’s the big deal?’ and the troop leader replied ‘It doesn’t matter how he looks, he has boy parts, he can’t be in Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts don’t allow that [and] I don’t want to be in trouble by parents or my supervisor.’
Bobby was devastated. Continue reading »
American kids are often over scheduled, pushed on by parents driven by a fear that they won’t be able to succeed in today’s competitive world.
But all those after school dance classes and music lessons have nothing on what this three-year-old Chinese girl has to put up with. Watch as the brave little tot walks a tightrope over a den of hungry tigers … and then falls:
It had to be a horrific site, one of those moments that seems to happen in slow-motion:
Nick Harris, 32, was driving his daughter to school when he saw a Mercury sedan back up out of a driveway and run over a six-year-old girl.
I think parents need to quit hovering and let kids figure out how to fight their own battles. It helps kids figure out how to handle conflict, plus — when compared to their parents — kids fight way more fair.
Channing has a great idea. She’s going to put on a stuffed animal dog show, and when she’s done, she wants all of you to grab your stuffed animals and make your own show. Then she’ll choose the one that’s the best.
This sweet little video probably would have been lost in virtual oblivion had it gone as planned. Only it doesn’t.
Talk about extreme discipline. A Florida roofer has been arrested for shaving his daughter’s head as a punishment.
The girl, he said, shoplifted jewelry from Wal-Mart, then later used a Game Boy without permission. Continue reading »
Eight-year-old Meagan Bilodeau was out on a cruise ship in the middle of the sea when her dad talked her into writing a personal message, sticking it into a water bottle, and tossing it into the ocean. “I always wished someone would find my bottle if I sent one. If found, would you kindly write back to me? Please? Please? Please?” she’d written.
She imagined it finding its way to far off places — CNN reports the most likely destination was the U.K. — but something happened to throw that bottle off course and it nearly followed Meagan all the way back home. Teddy Herrick, 11, found it while boating with her own family, just fifteen miles from Meagan’s home in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Teddy lives in Colorado and the girls plan to be penpals.
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