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When Do Children Start Teething

  Teeth are an essential part of the body, mainly because we all eat to live. Teeth help digest food by slicing, crushing, and grinding it into small pieces, which are further digested by our bodies. Additionally, teeth help us speak well and improve our appearance. Babies, like us, also need teeth at some point in their development to prepare for and adapt to weaning. So, when do babies start teething? Teething Schedule Before we discuss when babies start teething, we must first define the term "teething." Teething is the breakthrough or the emergence of an infant's teeth out of the gums. Medically, it is called odontiasis. Teething typically starts when babies are six months old and continue up to their third year of life, where it pauses when all milk teeth have emerged. The milk teeth, also known as baby teeth, temporary teeth, or primary teeth, are the first teeth people develop during the infant and toddler stages of development. Later, people develop permanent teet...

Fathers' Day

I do remember him. He suffers quietly and is lonely. He keeps it all to himself. He is a man. Men should not complain.  He educated them, all his children, boys and girls. He supplied them with necessities. He loved his daughters more, not because they were weak, but because he knew they were vulnerable. Now he suffers alone, alone in quietness.  They do not give him money, "Mama, have it all. Men waste money, they waste it on women and alcohol," they say.  "Baba is a drunkard. Baba never worked hard," they say.  "Baba, I do remember you, yes, I do."  "Baba, its not because u were drunk, its because they never take the blame. Even today, they still dont take the blame."  "Yesterday, she paid our house rent baba, now the whole neighborhood knows I depend on her."  "Her mother called, told me to stop bleeding her daughter dry."  "She left me. she left with my kid. she left with my Brian. all because i sell beer."  ...

Trump vs. Kim: Imperialism vs. Sovereignty

    I have keenly observed Donald Trump and his confrontation with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un. Unlike most observers, blinded by the controversy over nuclear weapons, a post-colonial African can read the struggle between imperialism and sovereignty that has dogged this controversy. Ultimately, the imperialist (Trump) wins the battle as Kim promises to abandon his country's nuclear program, creating the latest example of how imperialism always subdues the struggle for sovereignty. That aside, the questions raised by Trump's victory are: is the rest of the non-nuclear world safe by the US and its nuclear company of friends having loads of atomic weapons? Are Western efforts to prevent the rest of the world from acquiring atomic weapons measures of safety or standards of maintaining imperialism? Why should the non-nuclear countries believe that owning nuclear weapons is dangerous when the US and the West have stockpiles of atomic weapons with rumors of plans to increase...