A fire truck is parked at the entrance to Monceau parc in the center of Paris, France, on Saturday, after a lightning bolt crashed down onto a Paris park, striking 11 people at a child's birthday party. Francois Mori/AP hide caption
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The author at age 3 with her mother Brenda, in 1986. Courtesy of Kendra Snyder hide caption
Marvie, the host of Sesame Studios, will sing and answer viewer questions. Sesame Workshop hide caption
Jenna Cook created this poster when she left her home in Massachusetts in 2012 to return to Wuhan, China, where she had been abandoned as a baby. She hoped a relative might see the poster. She ended up meeting with 50 families who thought she might be their daughter. Courtesy of Jenna Cook hide caption
A new dad may look like he's holding it together, but odds are he's pretty sleep deprived. Thanasis Zovoilis/Flickr RF/Getty Images hide caption
Children play amid the rubble of a house destroyed by a 2015 Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen's capital Sanaa. Hani Mohammed/AP hide caption
A woman carries a child injured in a triple blast a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus on Feb. 21. Uncredited/AP hide caption
Asylum seekers from Afghanistan play football Feb. 7 in a resort in Halmstad, Sweden, where they are living temporarily. Sweden took in 163,000 migrants in 2015. Resistance to migrants is beginning to grow among some Swedes. David Ramos/Getty Images hide caption
As Migrants Flow In, Sweden Begins To Rethink Its Open-Door Policy
Hans Sick and Freia-Mai Franck have taken in two Afghan teenagers. Franck, who came to Sweden as a German refugee after World War II, says, "I'm remembering what was happening to me when I was a child." Courtesy of Hans Sick and Freia-Mai Franck hide caption
Amran, an unaccompanied minor from Afghanistan, at right, walks in the camp known as the Jungle with 35-year-old Farid Hamdan, a father of four, also from Afghanistan. "My heart is saying help him because he's only a kid," says Hamdan. "He has nobody else here to look after him." There are 300 to 400 children staying in the Jungle. Eleanor Beardsley/NPR hide caption
A refugee from Syria plays with a balloon at a camp in Turkey. Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
More than 90 percent of American parents think they are doing a good or very good job raising their kids, according to a Pew poll. iStockphoto hide caption
Antwan Burns-Jones, 31 (from left), William Moore, 35, and David Lee, 23, add a basketball to the memorial for Tyshawn Lee, 9, who was fatally shot in Chicago's Gresham neighborhood. Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images hide caption
Amid Violence, Chicago Parents Try To Inoculate Their Sons Against Fear
A dad comforts a son in Paris. Le Petit Journal hide caption