Young kids don't always pick the best times to have emotional meltdowns.Just ask any parent.Grocery stores‚ malls‚ and restaurants (or any place with lots of people around) in particular seem to bring out the worst in our little ones‚ prompting explosive tantrums that can make even the most stoic parent turn red-faced with embarrassment.But why be embarrassed? It's just kids being kids‚ after all.Actor Justin Baldoni recently shared a poignant photo with his own daughter and the big lesson he learned from his dad about such moments.Baldoni‚ best known for his role on the show "Jane the Virgin‚" shared a photo his wife‚ Emily‚ took while the family was shopping at the local Whole Foods.In it‚ Baldoni‚ along with his father‚ stares down at his daughter‚ Maiya. She's crying and/or wailing on the floor. Who knows about what. Her body is twisted into classic tantrum pose.The two men look calm. Almost amused‚ but not in a mocking way.They certainly are not embarrassed despite a horde of people around them in the store.When Baldoni posted the photo to his Facebook‚ he recalled the way his father used to act during the actor's own tantrums‚ and how it helped shape him into the man he is today.I tried to stay off social media yesterday to connect with my family without distraction so I'm posting this today....Posted by Justin Baldoni on Monday‚ June 19‚ 2017"My dad always let me feel what I needed to feel‚ even if it was in public and embarrassing‚" he wrote.The post continued:"I don't remember him ever saying 'You're embarrassing me!' or 'Dont cry!' It wasn't until recently that I realized how paramount that was for my own emotional development. Our children are learning and processing so much information and they don't know what to do with all of these new feelings that come up. I try to remember to make sure my daughter knows it's OK that she feels deeply. It's not embarrassing to me when she throw tantrums in the grocery store‚ or screams on a plane. I'm her dad…not yours.Let's not be embarrassed for our children. It doesn't reflect on you. In fact.. we should probably be a little more kind and patient with ourselves too. If we got out everything we were feeling and allowed ourselves to throw tantrums and cry when we felt the need to then maybe we'd could also let ourselves feel more joy and happiness. And that is something this world could definitely use a little more of."The photo‚ which Baldoni calls one of his favorites ever‚ shows the advice in action.There's a lot of pressure out there on both men and women to be the perfect parents at all times.But being the perfect parent doesn't mean your kid never gets angry or frustrated or confused. As Baldoni writes‚ toddlers are really just beginning to learn and explore the world's boundaries. There's naturally going to be a lot of swirling emotions as they encounter things and situations they can't understand.What's important is we don't teach them to hide those feelings or push them down for fear of ridicule — that kind of emotion-management can come back to haunt us as adults. Working through our feelings‚ or just having a good cry right there in the middle of the grocery store‚ is an important skill to learn.The emotional health of our children is certainly worth a few weird stares from people we'll never seen again.This article originally appeared on 06.23.17

As part of an experiment‚ a man asks for help translating a Facebook message he has received.There's a man in Lithuania who speaks only English. The message is in Lithuanian. He can't read it‚ so he asks some locals to translate it for him.As he asks one person after another to translate the message for him‚ two things become obvious.1. He's received a message full of hate speech.2. Translating it for him is breaking people's hearts.It's nearly more than these people can bear.There's a sudden‚ powerful connection between the translators and the man they're translating for. They want to protect him‚ telling him not to bother with the message.They apologize for the message.They look like they want to cry.Words hurt.Most of us would never think of saying such horrible things. This video shows people realizing in their gut what it must feel like when those words are pointed at them — it's all right on their faces. And so is their compassion.The Facebook message is horrible‚ but their empathy is beautiful. The video's emotional power is what makes it unique‚ and so worth watching and passing around.Here it is.The video's in English‚ subtitled in Lithuanian. Just watch the faces.This article originally appeared on 04.10.15

In preparation for an upcoming neo-Nazi march in the small Bavarian town of Wunsiedel‚ local residents decided to fight back in a hilariously perfect way: by sponsoring each of the 250 fascist participants.According to Heeb Magazine‚ "For every metre they walked‚ €10 went to a programme called EXIT Deutschland‚ which helps people escape extremist groups."The anti-semitic walkers didn't figure out the town's scheme until they had already started their march‚ and by that time‚ it was too late to turn back. The end result? The neo-Nazis raised more than $12‚000 to fund programs to put an end to neo-Nazis.Watch the YouTube video below:This article originally appeared on 11.25.17

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President Joe Biden said that he used to take the train across the Francis Scott Key Bridge in commuting from Delaware to Washington‚ D.C.‚ in his statement addressing the disaster in Maryland. A cargo ship downed the third-largest truss in the world and has possibly claimed multiple lives. This horrible event should not be about Joe Biden. But the president cannot help himself‚ and the American people cannot help but notice. Why must he always insert himself into tragedies unconnected to his life? It feels not empathetic but narcissistic. In this instance‚ the fact that no trains crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge compounds the ick. I-695 is a beltway circling Maryland‚ after all. Did he ride not the Acela but the “Crazy Train”? READ MORE from Daniel J. Flynn: Good Jerome‚ Bad Jerry‚ and the Fed’s Third Mandate Like his claim a year ago that “[w]e have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean‚” or his earlier boast of a long-retired and dead conductor congratulating him on over 2 million miles traveling on Amtrak‚ the president referencing “Francis Scott Key Bridge‚ which I have been over many‚ many times commuting from the state of Delaware either by train or by car‚” bespeaks a captain not at the helm of the ship of state. Biden recalling conversations about Jan. 6‚ 2021‚ with long-dead world leaders François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl‚ or confusing the name of the young woman murdered by an illegal immigrant in Athens‚ Georgia‚ for the football coach at the University of Southern California‚ suggest creeping cognitive impairment. But long before his 80th birthday‚ the president bragged of his arrest in South Africa when trying to visit an imprisoned Nelson Mandela and repurposed Neil Kinnock’s life story as his own. Nobody blamed senility when he told bizarre whoppers in his 40s. The president seeks to turn lemons into lemonade in his upcoming campaign against a 78-year-old. “Look‚ I’m not a young guy‚” Biden confesses in an ad running in select markets. “That’s no secret.” He looks to Ronald Reagan — 73 rather than 81 when he ran for reelection — who‚ when asked about his vigor during a presidential debate‚ answered: “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit‚ for political purposes‚ my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” One grasps the rationale of the president’s handlers. Walter Mondale pointed to that quip as the all-hope-is-lost moment of his already quixotic campaign. But for the line to work‚ it required Reagan to take the risk of debating his opponent and to demonstrate his wit and sharpness in front of inquisitive — hostile‚ even — journalists and an audience of millions. Biden looks poised to become the first president since Richard Nixon to refuse to debate his opponent and even rebuffed the softball interview that presidents typically sit for during halftime of the Super Bowl. He dares not demonstrate wit for fear of appearing witless and squints his way to statements provided on a teleprompter. On Tuesday‚ he rolled over words‚ maybe the way his imaginary train rolled over the Francis Scott Key Bridge or in homage to the locals who drop a syllable when pronouncing Baltimore‚ to the point of incomprehensibility. So‚ what does the ad‚ which acknowledges the issue as Reagan did but runs from any demonstration of his mental fitness to overcome the issue‚ accomplish? About the same as these past presidential advertisements. “Look‚ I’m into interns slightly older than my daughter. That’s no secret.” “Look‚ I can’t walk. That’s no secret.” “Look‚ I’m so fat that I installed a bathtub in the White House. That’s no secret.” What? Those ads never ran? Maybe the advisers to those presidents thought the better of it. Maybe President Biden’s advisers should have thought the better of it too. The post Biden’s Strange Story Collapses in Bridge Collapse Presser appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.