Many dads agree that bonding with baby is hard work; after all, Mom naturally holds a special place in the little guy’s heart. After all, Baby has spent nine months in his mother’s womb, listening to her voice and getting to know her in a way that cannot be recreated.
One dad took it upon himself to make sure his baby son knew just how much he loved him – and when the infant heard, he had the best reaction ever.
Dads shouldn’t lose hope in having a sweet relationship of their own with a newborn. If they put in the effort, they have a chance to know their baby in a different manner. That way, Baby will grow up feeling and returning the love. This video proves there is no reason for a dad to fret; hard work and attention do not go unnoticed.
In the brief but touching clip, a baby seems about to fall asleep when Dad leans in and whispers in his ear, “I love you.” A gorgeous smile lights up the baby’s face at once. Even though the baby cannot yet form a verbal reply, we see in his expression that the feeling is mutual. A bond is growing with his father, and it fills his heart with joy.
The baby in this video might have spent a lot of time with his mother, but his dad is taking the time to get to know him, creating an important place in his small heart. There’s no other way that such a pure smile could have been triggered using three words. This baby knows that his dad loves him, and can’t hide his joy.
Instead of despairing that Mom had an advantage, dads should start planning special moments to share with their children as they grow. After all, they’re going to be their baby’s hero. If they start making memories when their children are young, they will have their own precious moments like this.
These adorable twin comedians will steal your heart. Make sure you’re ready to laugh before you read any further because this video posted to YouTube in 2015 shows just how funny twins can be. And while we can’t seem to trace the origin of the original video, we found it on the internet and loved it.
Be sure to reach the end of this article to see the full video 🙂
The baby girl on the left likely thought this would be an innocent nap. She was so wrong. Her sister seemingly couldn’t resist the chance to make her laugh. Every time the girl on the left stopped giggling, her sister acted up. The baby girl on the right kept making funny noises until her sister laughed out loud.
How did mom hold in the laughter while she was filming? Have you ever seen such a young comedian? What’s this girl going to get up to when she’s older? Hopefully, her sister will always be there to laugh at her jokes! This must be a regular routine for the siblings. This mom probably knew to have her phone at the ready as soon as she put the babies down for their nap.
What kind of jokes did your babies play when they were this little? Do all tiny tots make such adorable noises?
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There’s no telling what the future holds for these cute twins. Did you know that twins don’t always get along? It’s true. Many twins, triplets and other multiple suffer from sibling rivalry.
Think about it for a second. Did you ever struggle to get Mom or Dad’s attention when you were growing up? Now imagine you had a brother or sister the exact same age as you! Luckily, these adorable baby girls are off to a strong start with their relationship. Hopefully, they’ll focus on making each other laugh as they grow up.
But why, you might ask, do humans laugh at all? And how do babies know how to laugh as soon as they are born? It turns out that the answers to these questions and the science behind laughing are fascinating.
Philosophers, scientists and early thinkers have speculated about laughter and humor for thousands of years. According to Scientific American, one of the oldest theories of laughter comes from Plato and other Greek philosophers. The Greeks, Scientific America explains, thought that humor and laughter were the result of either feeling superior due to others’ misfortunes and due to earlier versions of oneself.
More than 2,000 years later, the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud popularized another explanation — the theory of release. Freud and earlier thinkers from the 18th century reasoned that people laughed in order to let off steam, according to Scientific America’s research. Freud would say, for example, that that’s why vulgar humor is so funny to some people. Making a toilet joke allows us to release pent up energy, which we express through laughter.
Finally, the magazine proposes the notion of incongruity. When two things seem out of place or don’t match up, then they are humorous to us. One take on this theory of laughter is that laughing occurs when the person has found a solution to this discrepancy.
A more modern take on humor, as Scientific American points out, comes from Matthew M. Hurley’s book “Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind.”
“Humor is related to some kind of mistake,” Hurley explains. “Every pun, joke and comic incident seemed to contain a fool of some sort — the ‘butt’ of the joke.”
Laughter, Hurley argues, expresses our enjoyment of mistakes, our “emotional reward for discovering and thus undoing mistakes in thought. “We don’t enjoy making the mistakes,” he continues, “we enjoy weeding them out.”
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But what is lacking from many of these explanations is why babies, like the ones in the video below, laugh. This is especially baffling since it’s hard to imagine them giggling after solving some discrepancy or at earlier versions of themselves, as some of the above explanations claim. After all, they haven’t been around that long!
Getting to the bottom of these fascinating questions is precisely what Caspar Addyman from Goldsmiths, University of London is investigating in his research.
“I’m fascinated by babies’ laughter because it gives us a glimpse into what they’re thinking and what they understand about their world,” Addyman told the BBC.
Addyman, who is a leader in child development and laughter research, speaks to parents from across the globe about their babies’ habits in order to explore this intriguing phenomenon.
For example, Addyman discovered with his team that a baby begins smiling at six weeks while their first laugh usually comes after three and a half months. Addyman argues that a baby’s laugh is largely social. A tickling sensation and a sudden disappearance (e.g. Peekaboo) aren’t funny by themselves. Rather, they are only funny when babies realize that “an adult makes these things happen” for them, according to the BBC article on the topic.
“Obviously, we mustn’t overlook the fact that laughing is a highly social experience,” Addyman explains in an interview with RedOrbit. “Research on adult laughter finds that the majority of our laughter is provoked by social interaction rather than events that are inherently funny or amusing. Laughter acts like social glue. Babies can smile and laugh long before they can talk and this is clearly important to their bonding with their caregivers.”
As the BBC article points out, Addyman’s research seems to disprove Freud’s theory of laughter. At the end of the day, laughter is social, he would argue, and not necessarily a way to make fun of others’ misfortunes or to blow off steam.
This is at least partly apparent in the video below. This youngster on the left seems to laugh completely unprovoked, apart from the noises her twin sister makes. But using Addyman’s understanding of humor, one could argue that the baby is laughing not because of the noise itself, but because she realizes that her twin sister is responsible for this noise. In this way, the laughter is social; it’s a way to bond with her sister, another being that she’s just come to recognize.
Pam Willis was scrolling through her Facebook account one day in 2019 when she came across a devastating news report. It was about a group of seven siblings who were looking for a permanent home.
After their parents died in a vehicle accident in May 2018, the children had been in foster care for over a year. Their car turned over onto its side, killing their 42-year-old father and 31-year-old mother.
During the collision, each of the children had varied degrees of injuries. None of them, thankfully, were life-threatening. They had no other family to care for them, so after a full recovery, the four brothers and three sisters were placed for adoption.
When Pam, an attorney, saw their photos, she couldn’t stop staring at their hopeful faces.
“I can’t explain it — I just knew I was supposed to be their mom,” the 50-year-old told TODAY Parents.
Pam tagged her husband, US Navy veteran Gary Willis, 53, so he would see the write-up. She wrote, “Omg stop! Gary, can we adopt them?”
They have five adult children and live in Menifee, California. They’ve been fostering children for a long time. Pam was confident that Gary would disagree because they had never discussed adoption.
“I was expecting Gary to tell me I was crazy because we were about to retire,” Pam remembered.
But, to her relief—and surprise—Gary shared her feelings.
“I despised the idea of having a large six-bedroom house that was vacant because my children had grown up and left.” Pam told Metro UK, “I didn’t want to have all these rooms and no one to live in them.”
They called the number mentioned at the bottom of the article later that night. They were told that thousands of calls had already been received from people interested in adopting Adelino, 15, Ruby, 13, Aleecia, 9, Anthony, 8, Aubriella, 7, Leo, 5, and Xander, 4.
But two months later, Pam and Gary were matched with the siblings!
During the screening procedure, the parents discovered that the children had been through a lot of trauma. Their late parents struggled with addiction, and the family spent a lot of time in homeless shelters.
Pam explained that connecting with the younger children was easier since “they were just eager for permanency.” Pam knows why the older two were more challenging.
“I believe they didn’t believe we were real. “As if we were about to leave,” she speculated. “It’s difficult to trust when so much has been taken from you.” Ruby had no idea how to be a child. At such a young age, she had to be a mother figure.”
Pam said the kids have been a joy to be around since they initially moved in with them in June 2019. The children address them as “mom” and “dad,” and they have formed deep bonds with their biological older siblings.
There was a lot of adjusting in the first six months. The youngsters had trouble sleeping and had nightmares on a regular basis. Her then-7-year-old entered their room one night. “No, I just wanted to be sure you were still here,” she said when Pam inquired if she had a bad dream.
Pam and Gary proved that they weren’t going anywhere. In August 2020, they officially adopted the seven siblings!
Their biological children, Matthew, 32, Andrew, 30, Alexa, 27, Sophia, 23, and Sam, 20, were present during the virtual ceremony.
“It was awesome,” Pam recalled. “We brought a big TV screen out to the park so everybody could watch and cheer and be safe during COVID. There was so much love.”
Pam and Gary, who are now busy parents of 12, share their family’s adventures on Instagram, where they have amassed 41,000 followers! Follow them to be inspired by their story and incredible generosity.
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Noah Woods didn’t panic when he awoke one night to find his Georgia home on fire, even as flames lashed through his bedroom and smoke filled the air. he didn’t panic at all. Instead, he calmly got out of bed, grabbed his sister and got out through an open window, which was the only available exit.Because of his extraordinary deed, Noah was named an honorary firefighter and received a rare lifesavers award for his brave actions.
Noah… is 5 years old. But once he was out of the house and safe with his two-year-old sister, Noah knew it wasn’t over. He ran back to his burning home, picked up the family dog and pulled it to safety. He then ran to his uncle’s house next door and together they were able to safely get the six remaining family members out of the house and contact the county fire department.Bartow County fire officials were amazed by the young man’s determination to get everything out of the burning home.
Bartow County Fire Chief Dwayne Jamieson says, “We’ve already seen kids alert their families. But for a five-year-old to be alert enough to do that… it’s very unusual.”It was later determined that the fire had started from an overloaded electrical outlet in Noah’s bedroom. Noah’s grandfather David Woods, who was one of the family members sleeping in the house when the fire broke out, said: “By the grace of God, all our loved ones were able to get out of our house. “If it wasn’t for Noah, we might not be here today.”
In addition to being named an honorary firefighter and receiving a lifesaving award, Noah also received a letter of congratulations from Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. This is pretty heavy stuff, even for a 5-year-old.
Six tiny bundles, forming the most beautiful rainbow. Born more than 10 weeks early, the fraternal siblings have just arrived home – and their first photo shoot is ʙʀᴇᴀᴛʜᴛᴀᴋɪɴɢ.
These six little Fɪɢʜᴛᴇʀs have also been bestowed the most magnificent names – and with three older brothers named Saylor, Wells and Bridge they had a lot to live up to.
A miracle six times over
Eric and Courtney Waldrop have been sweethearts since school, and always wished for a big family. They could never have imagined just how big it would get. The Alabama couple had first son Saylor in 2008, before using Fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛᴍᴇɴᴛs to have their twins Wales and Bridge in 2012.
After suffering a ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇ Courtney finally became pregnant – with not one, but six babies. They had been told by doctors the chance of having another multiple pregnancy was low. But once they heard the ʜᴇᴀʀᴛʙᴇᴀᴛs they say they knew everything would work out.
They sʜᴀʀᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ ᴠɪᴀ their Facebook page, and even held a public ɢᴇɴᴅᴇʀ ʀᴇᴠᴇᴀʟ, watch the video below. The three ɢɪʀʟs and three ʙᴏʏs were born on December 11, 2017, the family naming their new additions: Blu, Layke, Rawlings, Rayne, Tag and Rivers.
After several weeks in hospital, the sᴇxᴛᴜᴘʟᴇᴛs were allowed home just a couple of days ago, and to celebrate they had their photos taken.
Photographer Ashley Sargent said, “It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. Can you imagine the Fᴇᴀʀ ᴀɴᴅ sᴛʀᴇss you would have as a mother being told you are pregnant with six? Mixed with so much joy in knowing that within you life is growing.”
“Six miracles were born … yes, I said miracles. Because the ᴏᴅᴅs were against them … the ᴏᴅᴅs of all of six babies at one time … the ᴏᴅᴅs of the babies sᴜʀᴠɪᴠɪɴɢ at all … the ᴏᴅᴅs of two parents accepting them all and choosing life regardless of the surprising news … you babies are miracles. There is a ᴛʀᴇᴍᴇɴᴅᴏᴜs ᴘᴜʀᴘᴏsᴇ for your life. You will shake the world. Because after every storm … there is a rainbow.”
One of these videos become viral after Buitengebieden uploaded it on Twitter with the caption “Sweet baby listening carefully to mom’s song.”
Thousands of people have liked and shared the 38-second video, which has been viewed by millions of people on social media. The infant in its mother’s arms can be seen in the video looking at her with an expression of pure joy and surprise as she sings a wonderful melody.
Sweet baby listening carefully to mom’s song..
Netizens can’t get over this video, and they’ve expressed their emotions in comments. “Oh…how beautiful this is. What a gorgeous little sweetheart mesmerized by his Mum”, one user commented. “Thank you, That is more than just beautiful. Viewing it causes a flashback to more than thirty years with my daughter”, another user said. Also, another beautiful comment was, “you can almost see all those little neurons firing, making brand new connections all about sounds, rhyme & meter, faces, mirroring behaviors, and love”.
Maria and Chris Jones-Elliot were very happy when they found out that they were expecting twin girls. They already had an adult son and daughter, who were also looking forward to the appearance of two younger sisters at once.
The couple came up with names for the girls in advance – Amy and Katie. The twins were supposed to be born in September, but things didn’t go exactly as planned. Already at the end of May, being at the 24th week of pregnancy, Maria felt that she would soon become a mother. She went to the nearest clinic and already on June 1 she gave birth to her daughter Amy.
Having been born prematurely, the baby felt quite normal, given that her weight was only 540 grams. But her sister was in no hurry with the birth. Due to the peculiarities of the mother’s body, she was able to stay to wait for her term further.
Maria gave birth to Katie only on August 27, 2012, 87 days after the birth of her twin sister. Katie’s weight was 2550 grams, and her height was about 44 centimeters.
The twins were allowed to go home at almost the same time. By that time, Amy had put on a lot of weight, but she was still noticeably smaller than her sister.
The girls, who were born with a difference of almost 3 months, immediately attracted the attention of journalists. They also set a new world record, which was recorded by representatives of the Guinness Book of Records.
Even though Amy and Kathy are twins, they have two birthdays. And in each of them, both girls receive congratulations and gifts.
By the age of a year, Amy had practically caught up with her younger sister in development. The twins became very similar to each other in appearance, but the characters of the girls appeared completely different.
Now Amy is already 8 years old, and Katie is only 7, but she will celebrate her birthday soon and catch up with her sister. The twin girls are already preparing to enter the second grade of elementary school this year. They learn very well and help each other in everything.
The girls’ names are written on their schoolbags to make it easier for classmates and teachers to tell them apart. But parents can easily find many differences among their daughters, who were born with a difference of 87 days.
Adoring mother films her 8-week old baby saying, “I love you,” in a heartwarming video. It’s always an extraordinary moment for any parent to hear the first words their baby utters.
At around the sixth month, most of the kids can utter some speech sounds that denote names of Mom and Dad or simply things they want, e.g., a bottle of milk or a toy.
Hearing these words might be difficult since a baby might be a combination of sounds and noises and even cries that may signal different needs altogether.
A recent video posted on YouTube has amazed many viewers how an 8-week old baby can utter the words I love you repeating after its mother. The latter is keen on capturing the moment using a camera.
The mom was engaging her little daughter in a small conversation about how last Christmas was, and this made the girl look happy as she babbled cheering sounds and wore a big cute smile.
Viewers would argue around this claim, but to the mother, this was a heartwarming experience with her daughter, and she was happy to have captured it.
Cheering and talking to your baby frequently as you look at each other helps in the intellectual development of their talking and listening skills. Therefore, it is encouraging to talk to your child regularly as you engage in other activities in the house.