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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 remember him. A man who carried his suffering like old coins in his pocket— quiet, heavy, never spent. He educated them— all his children, sons and daughters— filled their mouths with books when his own stomach growled. Loved his girls a little more, not because they were weak, but because he knew the world would treat their softness like something to peel apart. Now he sits in his silence, a chair creaking under the weight of their forgetting. "Mama, take the money," they say. "Men waste it on women and drink." "Baba was a drunkard," they say. "Baba never worked hard." But I remember. Baba, it wasn’t the alcohol that drowned you— it was their mouths, always pouring blame, never swallowing their share. Yesterday, she paid the rent, and now the whole neighborhood knows my pride fits in her purse. Her mother called, said: "Stop bleeding my daughter dry." As if love is a wound, and I am the knife. She left. Took my Brian with her. All be...

Trump vs. Kim: The Nuclear Hypocrisy of Imperialism

The spectacle of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s nuclear standoff was never truly about disarmament. For those who understand the long shadow of colonialism, it revealed something far more familiar: the age-old struggle between imperial domination and national sovereignty, where the powerful dictate terms to the weak under the guise of moral authority. When Kim Jong-un capitulated to U.S. demands to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear program, it was not a victory for global security—it was the latest chapter in a long history of imperial coercion.   The fundamental hypocrisy is glaring. The United States, which possesses the world’s second-largest nuclear arsenal, has no moral standing to police other nations on nuclear weapons. If these weapons are truly as catastrophic as Washington claims, then why does it continue to modernize its own stockpile? Why do American leaders speak of non-proliferation while simultaneously investing billions in upgrading their nuclear capabilities? T...