Talk about having your childhood stolen! In yet another case of teacher vs child, a drama teacher is now in custody after paying schoolboys thousands of Rands in exchange for very inappropriate behaviour.
Stanley Robinson of Lexington, Kentucky will visit the homes of couples considering having children and pretend to be their teenage son, for a price though.
God bless the internet and Scarlett-Rose Davis, the swearing little girl from the UK. Together they have added much needed humour to our lives.
This American family was certainly not expecting their holiday to end like this – but they probably would have been fine had they just been at a regular theme park. What’s wrong with going to Disneyland??
Kids are awesome. Most of the time. They are even more awesome when you can give them back to their parents, which is what you would probably want to do with this one…
Introducing the Gumtree Extreme ReFresh: DJ Fresh partners with Gumtree to renovate a Soweto day-care centre
Because children can’t be trusted anymore and we don’t want our little darlings to join a cult in the back alleys of dodgy neighbourhoods. This app will help parents sleep at night.
Kim Kardashian’s new mobile game, Kim Kardashian Hollywood, has been getting some coverage due to its ‘so bad, it’s good’ style of gameplay, but one disgruntled mother is not seeing the funny side of the game.
Young Noah Ritter steals the show when interviewed by a Pennsylvania news outlet when asked about his fairground experience.
Mick Jagger’s love child with a Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez is looking more and more like his rocker dad as he grows up.
Childhood sexual abuse is something that too many children face and carry with them, silently, their whole lives. Many parents either do not know or do nothing when they suspect abuse, but this dad is definitely NOT one of these parents. This guy is lucky to be alive…
If your day needed a little brightening, here is your fix! This dog stole the family baby’s toy… and naturally the baby cried. The sweet little dog felt bad and may have overcompensated to get back in the good books.
Mail & Guardian writer asks if white employers of domestic workers in uppity suburbs are aware that they suffer from “The Help” syndrome? We believe a healthy debate could stem from this.
As a parent, you expect to be able to send your child to school safely with the most dangerous part of the day being the commute to and from the institution. This has proven not to be the case in the US at the moment and, frankly, it is horrifying.
Cindy Crawford – one of the top international faces of super modeling in the 90’s, and still one of the most recognizable faces today. Will her gorgeous spawn follow in her footsteps?
According to a recent study, the number of words a child hears in early life will determine their academic success and IQ in later life. By three, children from professional families hear 30 millionaire more words than children from poorer backgrounds. So talk to your baby. Talk to them just a whole damn lot.
This chilling video documents the life of a little girl, for just one second a day. It paints a dark picture of the harsh realities children in war torn countries face.
Australia – where the English sent their convicts in the 18th century, and where the convicts hunted the aboriginals to near-extinction. It’s a harsh land, full of mystery and wonder. And incest, it seems.
As toddlers, we have no conception of the realistic boundaries that govern the act of gift-giving. At that age anything is possible, so long as you ask Santa Claus nicely enough.
We all had those moments in school when you went over to your mates place, only to find a crop of marijuana sitting neatly in the back garden. We then might have dismissed those parents as irresponsible, but one man is making the argument for combining parenting and marijuana.
We don’t know precisely why we get annoyed with Americans who want to ‘save Africa’. Maybe it’s because we see it as paternalistic. Maybe it’s because we see it patronising.
While some of us still struggle to speak english good, 10-year-old Cameron Bissett has long surpassed mere sentences – he is fluent is speaking backwards. His parents discovered his “talent” (their words) and decided to post a video of Cameron speaking English backwards into an iPad app that translates the word into our normal language.
Good guy Kyrie Irving visited a school in Gauteng to participate in an educational program supported by UNICEF’s Schools for Africa initiative. While visiting the kids, an impromptu dance battle kicked off with the Cleveland Cavaliers’ point guard and one brave student. The rest of the class provided the soundtrack.
Last week, Marc and Lauren Gilbert began hearing adult voices coming from their child’s bedroom. As the couple moved closer to the room, they could hear explicit language and a foreign accent speaking to their daughter, Allyson while she was sleeping. The voice called their daughter a “fucking moron” and said, “wake up you little slut”.
In a society where failure is not part of their vocabulary, it seems parents will enlist their children in anything if it means they have a competitive advantage in life. This Kindergarten in Taiwan is one of many facilities made available.
Billed as the anti-antenatal class, Dudes to Dads is an idea conceived by media personality Richard Hardiman to allow prospective fathers and those “about to be” dads the space to talk and interact with men going through the same process. Using a panel of radio and TV celebrities, businessmen and medical doctors, Richard guides the […]
Capturing human emotion can always be tricky, especially if the subjects are children. How would one get the children to express their emotions? Photographer Jill Greenberg used this tactic: give the child candy then quickly snatch it away from them.
Marketing Agency, Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney collaborated with Heckler to create this amazing short video of kids tasting foods for the first time. The video, shot in high quality, was screened at the TEDxSydney 2013.
Mums in the UK are up in arms over a doll designed for girls as young as two to “breastfeed”, calling it “weird” and “creepy”. The cringeworthy toys have children wear a bib with “flower nipples” while the “Breast Milk Baby” makes suckling sounds when the girl puts it to her chest.
Are you about to become a dad for the first time? Next week will see the launch of the very first Dudes to Dads evening in Cape Town, and if you’re soon to become a dad, this is probably something you want to attend.