In one more day, 2022 is about to end and a new year is about to begin.
Before the world moves forward and enters 2023, let us look back to how this year has been through Parent Herald's top 10 stories in 2022.
School officials of Severna Park High School in Maryland suspended a teen for allegedly wearing blackface, which resulted in the student's parents launching a $4-million worth lawsuit, claiming that the First Amendment rights of their daughter were violated.
Only a freshman student, "K.H.", as written in the court documents, she sent a photo of herself wearing face paint to her friends. A few days later, she was shocked to be suspended from class.
Her parents filed a lawsuit with Baltimore's U.S. District Court, stating that it was not fair for their daughter to get suspended from school for something she did outside of school.
The state of New York released batches of one-time stimulus payments for at least 155,000 families with an estimated amount of $870 per household.
Gov. Kathy Hochul confirmed in a statement that the said payments came from the Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund amounting to $64 million, which was aimed to assist families and kids in multi-generational households and survivors of domestic violence. The payments were expected to be of great help for parents in terms of diaper, food, rent, and relocation assistance expenses.
A family from Connecticut warned other parents after their one-month-old baby died of parechovirus, a severe viral infection that usually affects newborns and infants.
Ronan Delancy was a healthy full-term baby born in May 2022, yet after a week, he started having redness on his chest. His mom brought him for a check-up, where the pediatrician assured her that the baby was fine.
However, the night after the check-up and after Ronan showed to be more irritable and not nursing properly, his parents rushed him to the hospital as he experienced seizure and stopped breathing.
A parenting columnist and author argued in an op-ed that adults should not high-five children because a child is not an equal to adults, and doing so can result in disrespect and disobedience in the future.
John Rosemond, a family psychologist, husband, father to two successful adults, and grandfather to seven children, wrote an opinion article for Omaha World-Herald and stated that learning respect for adults is crucial in every child's character development and that a high-five is not, in any way, "compatible with respect."
California health officials confirmed that at least one person died and 11 others were sickened, which included three people hospitalized because of the Legionnaires' disease in Napa County.
The health department reported that the Legionella bacteria, which has caused the outbreak, was detected in the cooling tower of the Embassy Suites Napa Valley in the city of Napa.
A Black mom living in Virginia, Ebony Lumpkin, has been dealing with strangers who are accusing her of kidnapping her own son, Matthew, as the boy had red curly hair and white skin.
Lumpkin, however, could not explain why her son has these unique features, when she and Matthew's father, who is from a different race, do not have the MC1R gene, which, according to AmoMama, is typical of redhead individuals.
Declared dead upon birth by doctors, a stillborn baby named Augustus, was born at seven months to his teen mom of 18 years old at a hospital in Ariquemes in Brazil in late December of last year.
The baby was being prepared to be buried when the undertaker had the shock of his life - the premature stillborn baby had a faint heartbeat.
Mother and son were rushed to a hospital in Massachusetts and were found to have severe liver damage, a result of eating mushrooms for dinner. Boston 25 News reported that the two were given a compassionate use drug for treatment.
Kam Look and son Kai Chen gathered mushrooms from the outside a few weeks before the incident. They thought the mushrooms were the same as the ones they have safely forage back in Malaysia as both looked similar.
A rare "mermaid birth" took place last December 16, which surprised the midwives as Jennifer Petrie gave birth to baby Rio Petrie Martins without feeling that her water broke while she was in labor.
The mother, who was from Southport, United Kingdom, was shocked to see her baby coming out of her as he was still inside his "water balloon." His intact amniotic sac only got broken when the midwives picked him up for cleaning.
The Florida High School Athletic Association received criticisms from parents and physicians after finding out that its physical evaluation form includes five optional questions about the student-athlete's menstrual history.
Parents and physicians wanted the questions to be entirely removed from the form, stating that to digitally store and collect such personal information are unnecessary and put the students at risk, especially that these children are in the post-Roe vs. Wade era.
