It’s the big day they’ve been looking forward to. My twin boys turned 6 today! It is certainly a major milestone for the kids as well as for the parents. Here are the reasons why:
6 is the age when they start primary school. Until a year ago, kindergarten in Switzerland was not obligatory, so that [...]
Tags: 6 years, 6-year olds, firsts, growing up, milestones, Toddlers, Twins
Posted in: Toddlers, Twins
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I forget where I originally read it – and darned if I can find the link now! – but I heard that babies stick out their tongues right after the first tooth comes in.
We’d been feeling Ashley’s first tooth right below the surface for more than a week. We were lying in bed, she had [...]
Tags: baby teeth, drooling, symptoms, teething
Posted in: Health
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It may seem somethings straight out of the Jungle Book or Tarzan but there is nothing cute or romantic about the plight of the 5-year old Russian girl Natasha who was raised by dogs and cats – right within the four walls of her home. She was found in a little flat in Siberia whom she [...]
Tags: child abuse, communication skills and children, feral child, Jungle Book, Mowgli Syndrome, Natascha, Negligence, Tarzan
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Great Britain is trying to come to grips with the extremes of parenthood – first the 13-year father (Alfie) and now the 66-year mother Elizabeth Adeney.
Elizabeth shocked the country when she decided to have a child at the advanced age of 66 – when most women of her age are easing into retirement and coping [...]
Tags: 66-year old, age, controversy, IVF, maternal age
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Beagle puppy Ruby Puppy, or Ruppy for short, is the world’s first transgenic dog. Transgenic means that she has genes from another animal. Ruppy, and four other beagle puppies, were given a florescent gene from a sea anenome which makes her glow red under ultraviolet light.
Ruppy and her sisters are all identical clones of each [...]
Tags: cloning, fertility treatments, glow in the dark, infertility, puppies, transgenics
Posted in: Current Events
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