Source : Paj Ba By : Dustin Rowles Bethany was in the Kauai Christian Fellowship youth ministry when she suffered the shark attack. It has been a privilege to share her story through Soul Surfer, 2 documentaries and through the ConGRADulations! Graduation Gift. It is exciting to see how Soul Surfer has continued to have major impact during the pandemic times. Check out her words to the Class of 2020 http://grad2020.com I have been writing the weekend box office report over on Uproxx for about four years now. However, when the...
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By : Hayley Kaufman Source : Boston Globe It's 11 a.m. Do you know where your teenager is? These days, with schools closed and Google hangouts the only appointments on kids' schedules, the answer might be: Still asleep. “I’m not fighting with her about it the way I was in the beginning,” said Reading’s Leah Leahy, mom to a 13-year-old daughter who, like so many other “quaranteens,” has taken to sleeping in late each day. “I mean, she has such a structured life, and now it’s so...
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By : Samia Badih Source : Arts & Culture When Tomos Roberts, a spoken word poet from London, wrote The Great Realisation and posted it in video form on social media, he didn't think it would go viral. Nor did he imagine American actor Jake Gyllenhaal would approach him to potentially turn the poem into a book. The work, which reimagines our post-pandemic world, is written in the form of a bed-time story that is being read to a child. Filmed at home with his younger brother and sister, the video has been viewed more than 18...
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By : Jonathon Swinton Source : The Richfield Reaper Most people struggling with pornography addictions later in life were first exposed when they were 10-13 years of age, and the addictions set quickly. Sadly, 12-17-year-old teens are the largest group of Internet pornography viewers in America. This is the time in a child’s life that parents should be extremely careful. Unlimited access to the Internet is setting teens up for failure because their brains have not sufficiently developed as needed to control the impulses and...
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