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Some bad baby names rise above the rest. I’ve known so many Kaydens, Aidens, Braydens, Haydens, and Jaydens in my life that, at this point, the quality of their names no longer feels notably poor. While my childhood was populated by a parade of the boy “-aydens,” Gen Alpha girls are cursed with “-leigh” as the generation-defining nominal suffix. It’s a revival of common millennial names like Ashley and Brittany but with much more world salad. The Everleighs and Brynleighs of the world will keep getting born until the next big naming trend comes around. 

While there are broad naming trends, some names are timelessly bad. There was a girl at my elementary school named “Summer Camp,” and that name goes toe-to-toe with the name of the mom in this story is considering naming her baby. She’s always dreamed of naming a baby “Blessica,” but because of one unfortunate similarity to a pop star, the name shall not be. 

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Entitled mom-to-be calls out bakery for accidentally spoiling gender reveal by asking about cake ingredients: ‘She had a good 10 seconds to hang up before any info was revealed’ #Fun

Can I confess something? There are few modern social rites of passage that annoy me more than gender reveals. Putting aside all the politics surrounding it, expecting parents already had the phenomenon of the baby shower before this nightmare of pink and blue gimmicks came along. As if that wasn’t enough, they also have a tendency to cause a lot of unnecessary drama that could be avoided if you simply let the ultrasound technician tell you if you were having a boy or a girl.

This point has recently been proven by one mom-to-be on social media after she put a bakery on blast for accidentally revealing the gender of her baby to her before her party. She had asked that the cake contain blackberries for a boy and raspberries for a girl, and the baker left a voicemail revealing that they didn’t currently have blackberries in stock. 

Unfortunately for this mom, when she complained about this on the internet most people didn’t share her outrage. When you’re preparing for a new baby, there are bigger issues at hand. 

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Africa: Girls Transform Africa – Five Reasons Why Investing Today Will Build the Africa of Tomorrow #AfricaNews #Africa

[World Bank] As we mark the International Day of the Girl Child, it is sobering to realize that only 16 million out of more than 37 million adolescent girls in Western and Central Africa are currently enrolled in secondary school. Of these, fewer than half will complete lower secondary school, and many will enter early marriage or childbearing before they become adults. These numbers reflect lost potential and futures limited by circumstances beyond their control.

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Aunt refuses to take 8-year-old niece out for meals after she continuously orders  worth of food and refuses to eat it: ‘She will ask for 50 piece nuggets, large fries, deluxe quarter pounder with cheese and two shakes with two ice creams’ #Fun

It ain’t always easy being the fun aunt. You get the opportunity to spend a lot of money on your nieces and nephews and spend quality time with them, but you don’t have the authority to parent them. If your siblings or your partner’s siblings have parented them well, they should be able to understand that when an authority figure says “no,” they mean it and not fight it, but that’s not the case for many children. I’ve seen loads of parenting TikToks that advise moms and dads not to outright say no to their kids but to redirect them to a more desirable option. That might work when your kid is two, but what if they’re eight and literally can’t take “no” for an answer without having a full-blown meltdown? That’s the reason why one aunt decided to stop including her brother’s stepdaughter in her special days with her niblings.

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