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| More of this, please. |
| One of the hardest parts of being a parent is never being sure whether you’re doing a good job or totally bombing it. If you’re conscientious enough to even wonder if you’re a good parent, you probably are, but parenting entails a million little choices and interactions, and there’s always a lingering voice in your head saying, “What if you’re really screwing this whole thing up?” |
| Reassurance and encouragement are always appreciated by parents, but not always received, which is why a note from one camping dad to another has people celebrating the kindness of anonymous strangers. |
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| This is making people see geese in a whole new light. |
| Many people have been conditioned to be afraid of geese. They have a reputation for being aggressive and there are no shortage of stories from people who have been chased and bitten by geese while they were seemingly minding their own business. If you’ve spent time near a lake, chances are you’ve had an encounter with a goose that was likely less than ideal. |
| This level of perceived and actual aggression would lead most people to believe that the fat bottomed waterfowl naturally hates humans. But do they? Recently a woman who runs the account, The Dog Moms on TikTok, uploaded a video of her seeing what would happen if she pretended to faint in front of her gaggle of geese. The geese reacted in a surprising way. |
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| You might want to grab a tissue. |
| In 1997, the catchy earworm “MMMbop” by the brother trio Hanson spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. The band members were 16, 14 and 11 years old at the time, but even younger when they wrote it two years prior, and their hit song felt seemed to be a reflection of the optimism and innocence of their youth. |
| But the upbeat, do-woppy chorus—which is what most people remember about the song—belies how deep the rest of the song actually was. Many millennials are just now learning about the song’s poignant-but-hard-to-make-out lyrics, and hoo boy do they hit hard during the full-on-adult years. |
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| Hard not to see this as a sign. |
| Finding love again after losing a long-time partner isn’t always easy. Being widowed comes with complicated emotions—sadness, worry, guilt, grief—and it can be hard to imagine ever falling in love again when you’re in the middle of processing all of those feelings. |
| But sometimes loves comes along when we least expect it, which is how Michelle and Scott Ellermets ended up in a wildly viral moment. |
| Wedding photographer Chelsea Schaefer shared a compilation of photos and video from the Ellermets’ beach wedding that took place on September 7, 2024 and it’s been viewed by millions. |
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