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5 Good Things: This Latest Parenting Trend is a Throwback

CNN 5 Things

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News, Daily News

3.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A goldendoodle left at an airport gets lifted up by local heroes. A Texas swim team makes major waves for a beloved custodian. Giant tortoises return to the Galápagos after nearly 200 years. Parents are dialing back screen time with retro tech. Plus, Team USA’s women’s hockey Olympic champs are hearing from their biggest fans – thanks to a hotline.  Sign up for the CNN 5 Good Things newsletter here.  Host/Producer: Krista Bo Polanco  Producer: Eryn Mathewson  Showrunner: Faiz Jamil  Senior Producer: Felicia Patinkin  Editorial Support: Vanessa Yurkevich, Lacey Russell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, welcome to CNN Five Good Things. I'm Krista Belonko, and let's jump right into the good stuff.

0:06.9

Hi, it's me one of the biggest fans. You guys are role models for me and a bunch of other girls in this country.

0:15.1

You guys are trailblazers. As an American, I couldn't be more proud.

0:20.6

A certain phone call got a lot of attention this week,

0:23.6

and now there's hundreds more for the U.S. women's hockey team

0:26.6

since their historic gold medal win.

0:28.6

And the latest parenting trend is such a throwback.

0:31.6

What a kid is asking for is almost never a cell phone.

0:35.6

What they're asking for is a way to connect with people.

0:39.7

In Texas, a high school swim team dove right into doing something good for a beloved custodian

0:44.4

going through a tough time. Oh, he's just so sweet. The more we found out about him, the more

0:49.2

we're like, this is the guy to do it for. Later on, Charles Darwin's observations of this species

0:54.0

helped formulate his

0:55.2

theory of evolution. Now, hundreds of years later, they can call an island home again. And you know

1:00.6

the saying, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Here why that ended up being the best possible

1:05.3

outcome for an adorable dog after a quick break. Stick around. We're having some fun here.

1:18.5

Some precious cargo got left behind at a Las Vegas airport,

1:21.8

but this pup's final destination ended up not being very far.

1:25.1

No, what we're going to do is we're going to walk you back to where your dog's at,

1:45.0

and then we're going to get issue of citation because you left your dog at the tick counter. The Las Vegas Metro Police Department says it arrested and charged a woman for animal abandonment and resisting arrest, after she left her two-year-old golden doodle behind at the Harry Reid International Airport. Well, I was trying to rebook my flight. So you walked out here to rebook your flight?

1:45.4

Yes.

1:46.2

And left your dog there.

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