Alexandra Kehayoglou was born into Argentina’s first family of rugmakers. The 34-year-old artist started making unique, moss-like carpets after finishing art school in 2008. Kehayoglou uses scraps and threads from her family’s Buenos Aires factory, taking up to two months…
Depression is a common mental health issue. Postpartum depression/anxiety (PPD/A) in women, a common and often undiagnosed illness in biological, adoptive, or lesbian partner moms, has finally gained greater awareness by mental health professionals, obstetricians, and the general public. While…
Manufactured by Blue Spark Technologies Inc. the TempTraq is the first and only 24-hour intelligent thermometer that continuously senses, records, and sends alerts of a child’s temperature to your mobile device. TempTraq can monitor multiple patches assigned to multiple children…
“Gayby”means the child of a gay couple. But who are these kids? What do they think about having same-sex parents? And do they face different issues to other kids? At a time when the world is debating marriage equality, these…
Today, a child dies every 7 seconds from lack of care. The main reason for this tragedy is the extreme poverty. Michaela is 5 years old. She was born in Grand Anse, one of Haiti's poorest regions. As a victim…
Parenting in the first stages of infancy can be incredibly challenging – add a mobile disability to the equation and you can imagine how daunting it might seem. The Cursum stroller concept aims to make life a little easier by…
Italian artisan company Distribuzione Stella S.r.l. will introduce at Pitti Immagine Bimbo in Florence its first collection of luxurious haute-couture fashion for babies, branded Marlù®. The collection included high-fashionable ceremony clothes and accessories (bags, hats, shoes etc.) for 0-3 years-old…
Steve Hanson, Jonny Biggins and Jason Bramley (all in their mid 40’s) decided to honor their mothers and Anna Jarvis, the founder of the Mother’s Day, by “becoming pregnant”. For 10 days they have been wearing 33lb (15kg) suits, which…
OmniO Rider is a stroller which can be folded down and carried as a backpack, ready to be deployed when your tired toddler suddenly decides they can't walk any more (typically at the point you are farthest from home). The…
Lots of people love the birds in their garden, but it's rare for that affection to be reciprocated. One young girl in Seattle is luckier than most. She feeds the crows in her garden - and they bring her gifts…
When I was a child in the 1950s, my friends and I had two educations. We had school (which was not the big deal it is today), and we also had what I call a hunter-gather education. We played in…
“One of my happiest memories was making a birthday cake with my father,” opens the editor’s letter in the inaugural edition of “Fathers Quarterly.” The Polish publication (written in English) is dedicated to memories such as these, and to the…
The loss or still birth of an infant is one of the most heartbreaking tragedies that a family can experience. There’s no one right way to grieve over such a loss, so some families have chosen a solemn and beautiful…
There is no fool like a fool with children. Parenthood makes pinheads of us all. I considered myself perfectly sane until I became pregnant and found myself importing a specific model of buggy from New York on the basis that…
Fred Giovannitti, a self-described artist, dad, inventor, environmentalist and entrepreneur (whom we’ve written about before here) has a wonderful habit of taking his kids’ drawings with him when he goes on business trips and adding his own artistic and colorful…
No other country provides such generous terms of parental leave as Sweden. The current system allows parents to stay at home with their child during 480 days in total – while receiving an allowance from the State. Out of these…
"Far from the clichés and platitudes, I wanted to show us, as we are when we are born," photographer Christian Berthelot explains in his artist statement. Far from the pristine images of rosy-cheeked babies we're often used to digesting, Berthelot's…
I was about to turn 18 when I first got the news that my uncle tested positive for HIV/AIDS. It was after my grandma got a phone call from one of my uncle’s friends and started getting suspicious about why…
These three brothers (and their cooperative dad) are the latest to try their hands at the cute and hilarious childhood-photo-remake trend – and they’ve done an excellent job! Even their 95-year-old grandmother joins in on the fun! The concept behind…
Developed by Shubham Banerjee, a 7th grade student from Santa Clara, California. BRAIGO is a Braille Printer using Lego Mindstorms EV3. This concept slashes the price of a printer from more than $2000 to around $350 for education, teaching and…