One cold winter night, Syrian Ibrahim Othman went out to pray and came home cradling a baby girl, abandoned at the doorstep of the village mosque just hours after she was born. “I took her home and told my wife, ‘I brought you a gift’,” said the 59-year-old resident of Hazano, in rebel-held northwest Syria. He […]
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UN: No screen time for babies; only 1 hour for kids under 5
The World Health Organization has issued its first-ever guidance for how much screen time that children under five should get: not very much. The UN health agency said Wednesday that children under 1 should not have any screen time while those under five should not spend more than one hour watching screens every day – […]
S Korean babies born Dec. 31 become 2-year-olds next day
Just two hours after Lee Dong Kil’s daughter was born on New Year’s Eve, the clock struck midnight, 2019 was ushered in, and the infant became 2-years-old. She wasn’t alone, though it happened for her quicker than most: Every baby born in South Korea last year became 2 on Jan. 1. According to one of […]
Take it or Leave it!
Dear Mathira & Rose, I am 32 years old and have three beautiful children. Both me and my husband are content and live happily. My trouble began when my sister-in-law (husband’s sister) revealed that she can’t have a baby owing to a medical condition. She’s devastated and so is everyone else. Now my husband wants […]