16-10-05 One in five mothers feels namers remorse and would pick another name for their child if they had the choice, according to a survey before the annual announcement on baby names. 在宣布年度宝贝名字之前，一项调查显示，五分之一的妈妈深感取名者的懊悔，要...

16-08-17 Child: My uncle has 1000 men under him. Man: He is really somebody. What does do? Child: A maintenance man in a cemetery 小孩：我叔叔下面有1000个人。 男人：他真是一个大人物。他是干什么的？ 小孩：墓地守墓人。...

16-05-16 The lack of child-specific medication has led many parents to give their children reduced doses of drugs intended for adults. While the practice often works, medical experts are concerned that imprecise doses and inappropriate treatments could endan...

16-05-07 Would you like to know if your child is set to stand head and shoulders above the rest? Or if theyre likely to stay diminutive into adulthood? 想知道你家孩子将来的身高会鹤立鸡群吗？还是会一直这么矮下去？ There is an easy (although fallible) mathemat...

16-04-21 So you never knew whether it was a boy or ...? A girl? asked Malcolm. I nodded. A boy, he said. Had the approximate date and went to the Registry of Births to look it up. I sat there, trying to take in what Malcom had said. I felt as though Id been...

16-04-21 She was six years old when I first met her on the beach near where I live. I drive to this beach, a distance of three or four miles, whenever the world begins to close in on me. She was building a sandcastle or something and looked up, her eyes as b...

16-04-21 Time is running out for my friend. While we are sitting at lunch, she casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of starting a family. What she means is that her biological clock has begun its countdown, and she is being forced to consi...

16-04-05 The girls life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the womans original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to...

16-03-29 A group of fourth-graders at an elementary school in Qingdao formed an anti-siblings alliance in an effort to persuade their parents not to have a second child. 青岛一所小学的一群四年级学生日前成立了反弟妹联盟，说服父母不要生二胎。 该校王老师最近发...

16-03-17 With many loquacious assurances that they would be agreeably surprised in the aspect of the criminal, the doctor drew the young lady's arm through one of his; and offering his disengaged hand to Mrs. Maylie, led them, with much ceremony and statelin...