Inspiring Stories

The camera pans from a mother in tears to the room and they’re strewn all over the place. What would motivate anyone — let alone her husband — to do something like this? We’ll let you decide. A Shocking Discovery Photo by Karolina Grabowska It’s a natural law that parents are tempted to snoop around

We all know on a practical level that waitressing is a tough gig. But the truth is — at least for most of us, when we’re being served a plate of cold eggs — our ‘understanding’ nature goes right out the window. The person we want to be (someone who understands it’s not the 17-year-old

Being a parent can be tough. Being a parent to a child with special needs can be especially tough. So often you’re just trying to go about your day and to get by, but strangers can be judgemental or give you a hard time when you’re just doing your best. That’s why, when someone unexpectedly

They say it takes a village to raise a child. And while we generally associate it with parents who are knee-deep in raising littles, never is the village more important than in times of hardship and sorrow. In a TikTok seen around the world, mother of two, Tessa Truman, shares touching doorbell camera footage of

The best presents are the ones that surprise and mean something special to the recipient. Putting time and effort into curating the perfect thing can lead to downright joy, especially if the person you’re giving a gift to has no idea it’s coming. One eight-year-old boy nailed his holiday present to his mom this past

It’s been a week full of twists and turns for Mason Jar Cafe waitress Linsey Boyd — or rather, former waitress Linsey Boyd. The young mom couldn’t believe her eyes when a customer left her a 32000% tip. No seriously. That’s not a misprint — but what happened next may have shocked her even more.

Being cut from a school team can be a difficult experience for a kid. Sure, it can help build resilience but it comes at a cost (usually heartbreak, a sucker punch to self-esteem, and copious amounts of mint chocolate chip ice cream). But when 13-year-old Emmie Tallent (who has Down syndrome) didn’t make her school’s

It should go without saying that women don’t like being followed by strange men at night. But one young woman Lacie Kraatz (@lacie_kraatz), is going viral for posting a video of a man stalking her — in broad daylight. She was understandably terrified. So here’s what she did about it. She Was Just Trying to

It’s no secret social media can make us feel bad about ourselves sometimes — we’re endlessly scrolling through people sharing their perfect lives or perfect bodies and it can seem so much better than what we’ve got. Social media envy is real, but TikToker Hannah Flint is one of the momfluencers using her powers to

You may know actor Jake Johnson, 45, as the lovable Nick Miller from popular sitcom New Girl. But before he landed the career defining role alongside Zooey Deschanel, Johnson proved he’d been lucky long before that. Recently the Spiderman star sat down for a casual catch up on the Dope as Usual podcast; about an