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According to a survey of 1,279 five to 16-year-olds in the UK, kids are happier when Mom drives.
The survey, which painted dads as impatient and reckless and moms as competent and chatty, was performed by GEM, a motorist assistance company — sort of like the U.S. version of AAA. Read the rest of the results and tell us if you agree:
Topping the list of places I wouldn’t take my kids while they are small: Rock concerts. Not only are they noisy and hard on kids’ hearing, I’d never be able to relax and enjoy myself if I had to watch out for my kids instead of watching the band.
But a British child care service thinks they’ve found a compromise. Boutique Babysitting is setting up two large childcare centers at two of Britain’s biggest music festivals — Latitude and The Big Chill. Parents can drop their kids off at the temporary center — complete with rubber mats, blankets, and pillows — while they head out and enjoy the music.
A London IVF clinic is partnering with a Virginia clinic in a unique raffle with a one-of-a-kind prize, reports the Daily Mail: a human egg.
My neighbor won a Harley in a raffle last year, but a human egg?
At least one doctor says it’s common practice in American clinics, where guests who attend seminars on infertility and IVF can enter to win free treatment. But the idea has Brits up in arms over commercializing human life.
Two doctors, mid-18th century London, are pioneering a brand new field of medicine and hiring henchman to kill their patients so they could conduct experiments on them.
It sounds like a Hollywood historical hit, but it’s not.
William Hunter and William Smellie really were pioneers in the field of obstetrics, and they laid the groundwork for many of today’s childbirth practices. In fact, according to The Observer, Hunter helped deliver George IV, son of Queen Charlotte, in 1762, and Smellie has been called the “father of British midwifery.”
But a new study suggests that as brilliant as the two Williams were, they were also cold-blooded killers willing to sacrifice the lives of heavily pregnant women to further their research.
It’s impossible to guess that Kieron Williamson is only 6 years old by looking at his art. But this young boy from Norfolk, in the UK, is indeed extremely talented and is preparing for his first exhibition in a gallery near his home in Holt on Sunday, January 31st.
Babies conceived via IVF are hardly news. Going back for treatments and procedures into a third decade like Monica and Neil Ward, however, certainly catches one’s attention.
At long last, the British couple are the stunned and elated parents of twin sons, following a quarter of a century of fertility treatments. Twenty-five years! And how does daddy Neil describe it?
A living hell. Continue reading »
A good night’s sleep ranked number one on Batchelor’s Cup-a-Soup list of life’s little pleasures, says the Telegraph. A good night’s sleep is elusive at best when there’s a baby in the house, but new parents get complete access to another item on the list: Listening to a laughing baby.
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