5 Reasons You Need to Be United as Parents

Parenting is hard. Sleepless nights and busy days sometimes meld into a seemingly hopeless congealed mess. As a young mother cries while having a rough morning, her 14-month-old baby senses her despair and reacts. Not knowing what to do, the child does what kids do best. He offers his mom some love and a hug. @taysue Was having a minute while my toddler was eating dinner and he kept hugging me so I turned on the camera. Want to remember his sweet heart from the start ♬ Sweet Disposition FeelingBlew – Feelingblew You can see the concern on the child’s face as he looks up at his mommy crying. He puzzles over what to do. A brief flash of “I should cry, too” crosses his face. It is quickly replaced with, “I need to comfort Mommy.” The intuitive child gently reaches up, touching his mom’s shoulder comfortingly. He tugs at her shirt to get her attention. The video has gone viral for several reasons. It proves that even SuperMom can have a moment and shows a child’s natural empathy. It also offers the solution to almost all of life’s problems. Hugs. Image from TikTok. Most of us realize that a hug always makes it better when our children are hurting. The same science applies to adults. Reports say every person needs 8 to 12 daily hugs to remain happy and healthy. Research into hug science lists several reasons why and how hugs help. Our bodies produce different hormones as a reaction to circumstances. Stress releases adrenaline. To counter that, hugs trigger our bodies to produce oxytocin. This hormone reduces the stress reaction, bringing out feelings of love, trust, and safety. As the young mother discovered when her intuitive son offered a hug, they help. Our children can be more intuitive than we give them credit for. Even at 14 months old, her baby reacts and offers Mom the perfect remedy: a hug. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “14-Month-Old Reacts To Mommy Having A Hard Night” appeared first on InspireMore.

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Faces, the legendary rock group known for their raw, blues-infused rock sound and charismatic stage presence, are making an eagerly anticipated return to the music scene. Original members Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones have recently completed recording sessions for what will become their first new studio album in over fifty years, following 1973’s celebrated release, Ooh La La. The reunion has sparked excitement among fans and rock enthusiasts, rekindling memories of the band’s influential role in shaping the landscape of rock music in the early 1970s. Recording took place at the iconic RAK Studios in North London, a The post Stewart, Wood & Jones Working On New “Faces” Album appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

For the towns along Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction through North Carolina, rebuilding homes and stores takes time. But thanks to an army of volunteers, rebuilding the sense of community in towns like Chimney Rock and Bat Cave has been done at light speed. Chimney Rock Village was destroyed by Helene’s flooding, but every day […] The post ‘It’s Fun Making a Difference’ Legions of Amish Come to Help Rebuild NC Town appeared first on Good News Network.

This week, the stock market yo-yoed wildly, taking investors on a roller coaster of stunning lows and sudden highs. Rarely has investment been so gut-churning. And the reason for the turbulence is obvious: the Trump administration’s continuing mixed signals over its trade war. When that trade war was first announced on April 2 (“Liberation Day”) the Dow Jones Industrial Average immediately plummeted nearly 4%; the day after, 5.5%. After President Donald Trump put a hold on the vast majority of tariffs the following week, it recovered nearly 8%. The following day, as markets realized that Trump would retain massive tariffs on China and highly elevated tariffs on many of our allies, it dropped again 2.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained volatile but close to even for a few days. And then to open this week, it dropped almost 2.5% again, thanks to Trump’s apparent threats to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And then, on Tuesday, it rose again, 2.7%—this time based on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s leaked statements implying that the United States would come to a trade agreement with China (a sentiment seconded by Trump), as well as Trump’s statements that he would not be firing Powell. What is the purpose of recapping this potted history? To understand a simple lesson: Volatility in policy results in market volatility. Market volatility results in lack of investor confidence. And lack of investor confidence results in economic disaster. Typically, stock prices and bond yields work in inverse, since people flee to safety from stocks to bonds, driving down yields. Yet even as the Dow Jones is off approximately 13% from its high just after Trump’s inauguration, bond yields have been climbing as well—meaning that investors are showing lack of confidence in investing in American assets. Now, taking on China is an admirable goal. And trade is certainly a chief weapon the United States could use in containing Chinese aggression across the world. But to wage a successful trade war on China would require certain preliminary steps: negotiation of strong and stable trade relationships with allies to box in China rather than a declaration of trade war on everyone; time to reshore critical national security industries and resources and to solidify non-Chinese supply chains; a military buildup capable of deterring Chinese action against Taiwan, which—based on the destruction or capture of semiconductor giant TSMC—could plunge the entire world into a depression and easily leave China itself at a technological advantage over the West. The Trump administration did not do this preliminary groundwork. And so, the White House has been forced to punch holes in its own tariff regime, from exempting Apple products and semiconductors to unilaterally abandoning tariffs on erstwhile allies to deploying Bessent to pledge to lower tariffs on China itself. Impulsive decision-making can be an asset in foreign policy; it’s often smart to keep our enemies on their toes, unsure of what comes next. But in economic policy, impulsivity and unpredictability lead to chaos. And it’s far easier for the markets to lose trust in policymakers than to regain it. China must be contained, and Trump has been singularly transformative in forcing the world to face up to that fact. But if he wishes to truly defeat China in the economic sphere, it’s time for solid, understandable, and methodical policy that achieves the goals Trump has correctly set forth. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post How Not to Fight a Trade War appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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