RELATED: How to Throw a Kids’ Birthday Party That’s Fun for Adults Too Nutter Butter Animals Skip this one if your little tike has a nut allergy. If not, grab a package of Nutter Butters and let those sweet little peanut butter cookies do the work for you. You can use Nutter Butters as the design base for both horse- and dog-face cupcakes. Just grab some cashews, black icing, Nilla wafers, and candy eyes for the rest of the components and put them together....

Some help: this stretching routine offered up by Jess Gronholm, co-founder of online yoga platform Dirty Yoga. It’s designed to counter the contortions you put your body through every day, and specifically targets the muscles of your neck, back, hamstrings, and shoulders. Done regularly, it should prevent you from slouching like a scolded teenager and open up your muscles and joints. Downward Dog Why? “This is an engaged stretch that creates flexibility for the legs and stability and mobility for the shoulders and back,” Gronholm says....

“The birth of a child is an inflection point,” says Daniel Singley, a San Diego psychologist. It’s the line between pre- and post-baby life. Once you cross it nothing will be the same, including your relationships. This goes for your partner, parents, siblings, and particularly your friends. You’ll get closer to some friends. Others will fade away, a natural byproduct of having a child. Yes, you’ll be overwhelmed, scared, excited, and “psychotically exhausted,” as Singley says, and it’s easy to think friends who are still single and don’t have children will have little interest....

But while rebuilding a marriage after infidelity isn’t easy, it’s certainly not impossible. Couples who are willing to try may be able to repair their relationship with patience and careful, hard work. It requires honesty and humility, maturity and consistency, love and time. It also helps to understand what common reconciliation mistakes to avoid along the way because digging a deeper hole won’t help anyone. From not asking yourselves the hard questions to trying to recover too quickly, here are some common reconciliation mistakes to avoid and why they cause trouble for those trying to mend a relationship....

“High-functioning depression” isn’t an official diagnosis but more of a colloquial term. People with high-functioning depression meet some of the criteria for a depressive disorder listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) — the book clinicians use to officially diagnose mental health conditions — but they can appear completely healthy and meet daily responsibilities. As the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than 322 million people — about the population of the U....

In the U.S., new data shows that childcare costs have increased by 41% from pre-pandemic levels to more than $14,000 per year on average, and many families pay as much as 20% of their take-home pay to provide care for their children. That cost has consequences. According to a recent report by the Committee for Economic Development, an arm of The Conference Board (CED), the overall number of mothers in the workforce has declined in recent years, suggesting a link between the ability to participate in the workforce and the availability of affordable childcare....

As Jake tells the story, with embellishments that turn it into a Goonies-style quest, viewers are treated to flashbacks of 11-year-old Jake (Winslow Fegley of Nightbooks) and his friends on their epic quest. Steve Zahn and June Diane Raphael co-star as John and Kathy Doyle, young Jake’s parents. It’s their disapproval of Jake’s video game obsession that sends him and his pals off on their wild mission to attain a classic NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)....

title: “9 Amazing Fire Pits To Level Up Your Backyard” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-03” author: “Kathy Neeley”

Who qualifies for this round of student loan forgiveness? According to Forbes, nine million public service workers who have federal student loans may be eligible for more student loan forgiveness. The eligibility for the cancelation comes through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF). The program isn’t new, it was first developed by Congress in 2007 and it’s still active today. However, only 130,730 student loan borrowers have received student loan forgiveness under the federal program, which is less than two percent of those eligible for forgiveness through the program, Forbes points out....

We Appreciate Each Other’s Company So Much More We just enjoy spending time doing nothing more than before children. The quiet downtime that we have is no big trips, restaurant reservations, etc. We just chill. I don’t remember this much chill time before children. — Matthew, 35, South Carolina We’re Much More Present With Each Other I have a 10-month-old son, and after his arrival, one positive change in my relationship with my wife is that we’re more present with each other....

Keenan turns 91 next week. In an interview after she got the vaccine, talked about how lucky she was to be among the first to get the vaccine. “I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19, it’s the best early birthday present I could wish for because it means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the new year after being on my own for most of the year....

Sen. Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, announced The Decent, Affordable, Safe Housing Act (DASH) on Wednesday. “Housing is a human right. Yet, millions of Americans pay more than half of their monthly take-home pay to keep a roof over their head. And more than half a million Americans don’t have housing at all,” Wyden said in a press release. “America is amidst a serious crisis of housing affordability, and it’s a big challenge that demands big, bold solutions....

One of the most popular answers was a moment everyone getting old has experience: the first time you look at people in their early 20s and think that they look like high schoolers. It’s especially difficult when it happens in a social setting you used to feel comfortable in. “When I went to a nightclub last weekend and everyone looks like children…” u/TheDeadlySquid wrote in the viral Reddit thread. Another essential rite of passage into geriatric existence is when the pop culture you were raised with is suddenly considered “classic....

However, when the scales begin to slip out of balance on a more regular basis and one partner is habitually working late, bringing work home, or going into the office on weekends, the hard feelings linger. Even if the other partner isn’t consciously saying, “I am choosing to go to work rather than be with you,” the fact remains that, by doing just that, even as a result of external pressure, they are making the choice to not be present, and that leads to emotional distress on both sides....

BIC Xtra-Precision Mechanical Pencils: For future architects and engineers who like a good mechanical pencil, BIC’s selling their Xtra-Precision for a whopping 64 percent off. You can get an entire 24-pack for a flat $5. Buy Now $5 Buy Now $9 Avery Minions and Trolls Binders: Avery’s knocking 30 percent off themed binders and notebooks including a bunch from Despicable Me and Trolls. The Sea of Minions 1-inch binder is only $8....

While America still has many lingering questions about the economy, it’s encouraging to see middle-class Americans re-emerging at a time where many believed that was an impossibility. Depending on who you ask, America’s middle-class is either dying, already dead, or never really existed in the first place. Yet these numbers suggest that for many Americans, financial stability may not be as out of reach as many previously thought. These new numbers do not mean that everyone is experiencing the benefits of a slow, but steady economic recovery....

There has been a great deal of attention focused on the dozens of immigrants in the caravan, who have fled the violence and poverty of their home countries. Those that would keep them out of the United States claim they represent an unwanted burden. Those that would let them in suggest that our country has a moral obligation to welcome the seekers. But I can’t help but focus on the parents themselves....

The National Autistic Society (NAS) defines an autism meltdown as an intense reaction — such as shouting, screaming, crying, kicking, lashing out, or biting — in response to being overwhelmed. “Young children don’t have sophisticated emotional vocabularies, so a child screaming for a specific toy is going to look like bad behavior in a neurotypical kid,” says Noor Pervez, the community engagement manager for the Autism Self Advocacy Network. “But for a child with autism, he may be screaming because he has no way to communicate that he needs that toy to feel safe in his environment....

On July 1, Comedy Central sent out a press release announcing the reboot of the show. The highlight was creator Mike Judge’s single-sentence quote, “It seemed like the time was right to get stupid again,” which, yeah, 2020 agrees with you. Anyways, here’s the passage from that release that seems most relevant to the question of Beavis and Butt-Head’s potential paternity: You could read this as the boys being dads, but that’s a pretty huge leap....

Let me explain. I am not what you might call a clothes-lover. Don’t get me wrong. I geek out about Public School’s latest minimalist line and spend too much on dub monks. I like nice clothes. I just don’t like wearing them. Many times–really, always–I am in some stage of dishabille. I also shower occasionally. The consequence of all this is that my boys — Tony, 5, and Tubes, 4 — see my penis (also, my balls, or as Tony calls it, my “penis bag”)....