A video of a young boy waving to ask his dad for one extra hug before he drives off to work is capturing the hearts of social media users online.
Tyler Lobdell shared a 31-second clip on his TikTok page, which now has over 1.5 million views. Lobdell, a father of two, told Good Morning America he had the idea to check his doorbell camera recently when he came across the special moment and couldn’t resist watching it over and over.
“I watched it 150 times before I posted it because I’m just watching it and its making me emotional watching it and I just wanted people to feel what I felt watching it.” Lobdell said of his motivation to share the video of him and his son Isaiah.
Lobdell said even though he often showers his sons, Hudson and Isaiah, with hugs and kisses, the boys, who are now 6 and 8, still like to stop him before he leaves for work and occasionally request one more hug from him.
“They’ll catch me in the garage or come out, like Isaiah did that morning, and they’ll stop me for an extra hug,” Lobdell, an ironworker in Constantia, New York, explained. “They just do it randomly from time to time and I just love that they do that.”
“I always try to make sure that I’m reciprocating that love that they’re trying to show me,” he continued. “It’s a rough world out there and I don’t ever want my kids to ever feel that they can’t show me love or feel in any way that they’re not totally and completely loved by their parents.”
Lobdell said he encourages other parents to “be as present as possible” with their kids and take the opportunity to spend time with them because “time flies by so fast”. As for his young sons, Lobdell added that he wants them to know that no matter what they do, he’ll always support them and he’ll always be proud of them.
1. What attracted people’s attention about the video?| A．Lobdell’s care for his son. | B．Isaiah’s love for his father. |
| C．Lobdell’s parenting skills. | D．Isaiah’s funny activities. |
| A．To express his gratitude. | B．To attract some followers. |
| C．To make his son feel proud. | D．To share his personal feelings. |
| A．Making out. | B．Taking over. | C．Giving back. | D．Setting down. |
| A．Be strict with their children. | B．Keep their children company. |
| C．Show respect to their children. | D．Praise and motivate their children. |
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【推荐1】Tips for healthy travel with children
Children make up a small but important group of travelers. Their smaller bodies and developing immune (免疫的) systems make their travel health needs important.
Vaccines (疫苗) for children
In general, there is a higher risk of most vaccine-preventable diseases when travelling abroad.
Malaria (疟疾) and children
Transportation risks
Air travel is safe for healthy children.
Signs and symptoms (症状) of altitude sickness in children are often mistaken for other illnesses. A child with altitude sickness may throw up, hate to eat, or be anxious. Older children may also show headaches, or difficulty breathing. As it is difficult to tell if a child is developing altitude sickness and since altitude sickness can develop rapidly in children, you may travel to no higher than 2.500 m (8,200 feet).
| A．Avoid taking children to areas with a risk of malaria |
| B．Pack a travel health kit |
| C．High altitude sickness |
| D．However, it is necessary that you wait until newborns are one to two weeks old before flying |
| E．Have you ever taken anti-malarial medicine |
| F．There are many facts to think about carefully when travelling with children |
| G．And these diseases tend to be more severe (严重的) in children than in adults |
【推荐2】When Dekalb Walcott Ⅲ was just 8 years old, his father, a Chicago fire chief, let himtag alongon a call. Dekalb says a lot of kids idolized (崇拜) basketball player Michael Jordan when he was growing up in Chicago in the1990s. Not him.
“I wanted to be like Dekalb Walcott Jr, ”he says of his father. So when his dad asked if he wanted to go on that call with him when he was 8, Dekalb was excited. “I'm jumping up and down, saying, ‘Mom, can I go? Can I go?’”
The experience changed Dekalb's life, and he told his dad on a visit to StoryCorps. “My eyes got big the moment the alarm went off, ” the younger Dekalb says. “This is the life that I want to live someday. ”
Now 27, the younger Dekalb is living that life. He became a firefighter at 21 and went to work alongside his dad at the Chicago Fire Department. Before his father retired, the pair even went out on a call together-father supervising (监督)son.
“You know, it's everything for me to watch young row, ”his father says. But he also recalls worrying about one particular fire that his son faced.
“I received a phone call that night. And they said, ‘Well, your son was at this fire. ' I said, ‘OK, which way is this conversation going to go?'”Dekalb Walcott Jr. recalls.
“And they said, ‘But he's OK. And he put it out all by himself. Everybody here was proud of him. ’”
“And the word went around, ‘Who was out there managing that fire? Oh, that’s Walcott!That's Walcott up there!’So, you know, moments like that, it's heaven on earth for a dad. ”
Dekalb Walcott Jr. has retired. The younger Dekalb says he's proud of being a second-generation firefighter. “You know, it makes me look forward to fatherhood as well, because I'm definitely looking forward to passing that torch (火把) down to my son. ”
1. The underlined phrase “tag along” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to“____________”.| A．put out fire |
| B．watch basketball |
| C．follow his father |
| D．ask his mother's permission |
| A．8 | B．21 |
| C．27 | D．35 |
| A．Dekalb Walcott Jr. is proud to be a second-generation firefighter. |
| B．Dekalb Walcott ⅢI wants his son to become a firefighter, too. |
| C．Dekalb Walcott Jr. wants to pass the torch to Dekalb Walcott Ⅲ. |
| D．Dekalb Walcott Ⅲ is proud that his son has become an excellent firefighter. |
| A．Passing The Torch: A Firefighter Dad's Legacy |
| B．Putting Out Fire: A Challenging Job For Father And Son |
| C．Dekalb Walcott Ⅲ: A Second-generation Firefighter |
| D．Dekalb Walcott Jr. : A Chicago Fire |
【推荐3】The first memory I have of him－of anything, really－is his strength.It was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ours.The unfinished wood floor had large, terrifying holes whose big and opening darkness I knew led to nowhere good.His powerful hands, then age 33, wrapped all the way around my tiny arms, then age 4, and easily swung me up to his shoulders.
The relationship between a son and his father changes over time.It may grow and flourish in mutual maturity.It may sour in hated dependence or independence.With many children living in single-parent homes today, it may not even exist.
But to a little boy right after World War II, a father seemed a god with strange strengths and strange powers enabling him to do and know things that no mortal could do or know.Amazing things, like putting a bicycle chain back on, just like that, or building a hamster cage, or guiding a jigsaw(拼版玩具)so it forms the letter F; I learned the alphabet that way in those pre-television days.
There were, of course, rules to learn.First came the handshake, a good firm squeeze accompanied by an equally strong gaze into the other's eyes."The first thing anyone knows about you is your handshake,” he would say.And we'd practice it each night on his return from work, the serious toddler(学步儿童)in the old Cleveland Indian's cap running up to the giant father to shake hands again and again until it was firm enough.
One day, I realize now, there was a change.I wasn't trying to please him so much as I was trying to impress him.I never asked him to come to my football games.He had a high-pressure career, and it meant driving through most of Friday night.But for all the big games, when I looked over at the sideline, there was that familiar fedora(软呢帽).And by God, did the opposing team captain ever get a firm handshake and a gaze he would remember?
Then, a school fact contradicted something he said.Impossible that he could be wrong, but there it was in the book.These accumulated over time, along with personal experiences, to strengthen my own developing sense of values.And I could tell we had each taken our own, perfectly normal paths.I began to see, too, his blind spots, his prejudices and his weaknesses.I never threw these up at him.He hadn't to me, and, anyway, he seemed to need protection.I stopped asking his advice; the experiences he drew from no longer seemed relevant to the decisions I had to make.
He volunteered advice for a while.But then, in more recent years, politics and issues gave way to talk of empty errands and, always, to illness.
After much thought and practice “ You can do whatever you have to do.”, one night last winter, I sat down by his bed and remembered for an instant those terrifying dark holes in another house 35 years before.I told my father how much I loved him.I described all the things people were doing for him.But, I said, he kept eating poorly, hiding in his room and violating the doctor's orders.No amount of love could make someone else care about life, I said; it was a two-way street.He wasn't doing his best.The decision was his.
He said he knew how hard my words had been to say and how proud he was of me.“I had the best teacher,” I said.“You can do whatever you have to do.” He smiled a little.And we shook hands, firmly, for the last time.
Several days later, at about 4 A.M., my mother heard Dad shuffling about their dark room.“I have some things I have to do,” he said.He paid a bundle of bills.He composed for my mother a long list of legal and financial what-to-do's “in case of emergency.” And he wrote me a note.
Then he walked back to his bed and laid himself down.He went to sleep, naturally.And he did not wake up.
1. The underlined word “It” in Para 2 may refer to____________..| A．a single-parent home | B．the relationship between a son and his father |
| C．the mutual maturity | D．the dependence or independence |
| A．there was no television when the writer was learning the alphabet |
| B．the writer’s father was a god who could do many things with strength |
| C．the writer’s father lived a poor life and couldn’t support his family |
| D．they practiced shaking hands until the writer grew up |
| A．the writer’s distrust of his father |
| B．the expectations of the writer’s father |
| C．the contradiction between the writer and his father |
| D．the change of relationship between the writer and his father |
【推荐1】"Is this making us old or keeping us young? "my husband asked as he lifted the three heavy backpacks from the canoe.
"I don't know, I replied. The heat and mosquitoes were getting to me, and I was wondering whether we were crazy to have started a canoe trip during the hottest week of the summer. But even in fall, our canoe trips ---- while certainly cooler --- are no easier.
I've always loved getting away from civilization to enjoy the peace of nature, to be on a news blackout(中断)and to reflect on the past year and the year to come, which is why we've been doing this regularly for most of the 38 years we've been together.
Now as we’re getting older, it's getting harder-aching knees, aching feet, aching backs. So, we're changing our habits. Instead of extreme whitewater trips in the far north, we’re going on lake trips closer by. Instead of pulling on the heavy pack myself and rising from a sitting position, my husband lifts it up while I thread my arms through the belts. Along the way, I might stop to admire the green plants beside the path or feel the soft surfaces of the moss, and my husband is usually waiting at the other end, wondering why it's taken me so long. During the night, we no longer stay up late to see the stars. Instead, we now get into the tent by 9 p. m. ---exhausted after one day's hard work --- and drift to sleep listening to birds sorrowful call.
Over the years, my canoe-tripping experience has evolved to focus less on the physical and more on the abstract things. Like a solar battery, I store up the energy I absorb from the forest, rocks and waters to help me through the rest of the year. The rhythm of paddling becomes a process of deep thinking rather than an endurance test.
"How long can we continue doing this?” asked my husband at the end of the last trip.
“I don't know,” I answered, but inside, I thought: "As long as our bodies and minds hold out. I hope forever.”
1. According to the passage, the author and her husband's canoe trips ______.| A．were difficult to complete |
| B．had made the couple crazy |
| C．made the couple look younger than their age |
| D．became dangerous because of the summer heat |
| A．the stars are not beautiful any more | B．birds night call is more attractive now |
| C．their habits have changed over the years | D．they are too tired to do the same things |
| A．An Unforgettable Trip | B．My Trip with My Husband |
| C．Life Is a Hard Trip | D．Love for Canoe Trips |
【推荐2】One morning, my husband Jerry went back to the kitchen as he just finished loading his car. ＂I guess filling my thermos(保温瓶) is all that I have left to do, and then I’m off.＂ Down the drain went the hot water that had been warming his thermos.
With a nostalgic(怀旧的) look on his face, he softly said, ＂Anytime I fill my thermos I think of your mom.＂ The tone in his voice was so tender as he spoke of my mother, who is sadly no longer with us.
＂Oh honey, I know she’s watching and listening right now with a big smile on her face,＂ I responded, tears in my eyes.
One morning years ago when we were leaving, mother watched as Jerry was to fill his thermos. Mom then casually said, ‘Jerry, if you filled your thermos with hot water and let it sit a while, your coffee would stay hot for longer then.＂ With her simple suggestion, his face showed that he was shocked by his own lack of common sense. Well, of course it would!
He poured out the small amount of coffee already in the thermos and refilled it with boiling hot water. Then he poured the water and refilled it with hot coffee. Mom smiled as Jerry did so.
Words of wisdom from a loving mother-in-law made an impact that will never be forgotten. She never dreamed her words would be a treasured and everlasting memory in the heart of her son-in-law.
The lasting memories don’t necessarily come from major moments in life. Memories are often made during those small, ordinary times. Life is about small moments we share with friends and loved ones.
1. Which word best describes the author’s feeling in Paragraph 3?| A．Confused. | B．Concerned. |
| C．Touched. | D．Interested. |
| A．out of the question | B．without any doubt |
| C．certainly and absolutely | D．possibly but uncertainly |
| A．how valuable a mother’s advice is to her children |
| B．that lasting memories come from small things |
| C．what a wise woman the mother is to her son-in-law |
| D．why we should respect our parents and listen to them |
【推荐3】My two daughters and I got into the car to spend our weekend in Florida. Autumn, the elder one, offered to drive. I sat next to her, and Amber sat in back. After setting out, the three of us sang to the radio at the top of our voice.
It was a great trip until the rain poured and the rain was too heavy. “I have to pull over.” Autumn said. She tried to enter the far right lane (车道) to find a place to stop, but trucks ran fast, making water onto our car. The car was out of control, then worse — it started to move left and right. Autumn fought to control it but it was too late. We ran into a truck. The girls jumped out of the car. My chest felt much pain.
“Get out, Mom. Come on!” Amber cried. “I can’t.” I said. Autumn took out her cellphone. “There’s been an accident. Send an ambulance (救护车)!” Amber and Autumn pulled me out of the car and helped me lie on my back in the grassy area by the roadside. I had to calm myself and looked up. A man held a large umbrella over me and other kind faces appeared above me. A woman helped to treat a cut over Amber’s eye. Another woman came close to me and said, “No one in the truck was injured. Help was on the way.” The woman mentioned she was a nurse; the other woman who took care of Amber’s cut was an eye specialist. We couldn’t have asked for better care.
In the hospital the pain in my chest began to disappear. Later, the tests at the hospital made sure we had no serious injuries. We’d left all our troubles behind thanks to these kind people, who seemed to be angels (天使) in my eyes.
1. How did the author and her two daughters feel after setting out?| A．They were worried about the weather. | B．They enjoyed themselves greatly. |
| C．They thought it was a long journey. | D．They felt lucky to take the journey. |
| A．To stop by the roadside. | B．To follow the truck closely, |
| C．To get into the fast traffic lane. | D．To move the car left and right. |
| A．The author herself drove the car. | B．It was raining heavily. |
| C．A nurse held a large umbrella to help. | D．The truck driver was badly injured. |
| A．Unexpected heavy rain | B．Leave our troubles behind |
| C．Kind angels saved the day | D．My two kind daughters |
