Veteran South Carolina school bus driver evacuates 56 children off a burning bus in less than a minute, just before the vehicle bursts into flames. Superheroes walk among us.
Vermont state lawmakers pass a bill entitling pregnant employees to workplace accommodations, including longer or more frequent bathroom breaks. Because when you’ve got a baby pushing on your bladder, there’s no holding it in.
Fiesty sea lion yanks little girl off a dock in Vancouver, B.C. — and there’s (now-viral) video footage to prove it. Those “Don’t Feed the Animals” signs are there for a reason.
U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary Sonny Purdue rolls back Obama-era school nutrition standards, reducing whole-grain requirements, allowing higher levels of sodium and restoring sweetened milk to school cafeterias. Thankfully, Vermont’s Farm to School Network is still going strong.
Low-tech fidget spinners become the must-have item for twitchy kids and teens around the country. Screen fatigue?
Sixteen-year-old Carter Wilkerson of Nevada ousts Ellen DeGeneres as the owner of the most-retweeted tweet with his plea to Wendy’s for a year’s worth of free chicken nuggets. And henceforth, he’ll always be known as “that nugget kid.”
This article was originally published in Seven Days’ monthly parenting magazine, Kids VT.
This article appears in The Dad Issue 2017.
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