Many people reach for blue light glasses in hopes they’ll lessen digital eye strain, a condition which affects 58% of U.S. adults and is characterized by dry, itchy eyes, headaches, and blurred vision. Eye strain occurs when you stare at something for a long time, close up, without blinking, which forces the eyes to work harder to focus and prevents normal tear distribution. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), humans generally blink around 15 times per minute....

First of all, iron is essential to the production of hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that shuttles oxygen to organs, muscles, tissues, and cells. Without sufficient dietary iron intake, important parts of the body and brain won’t get enough oxygen, meaning they can’t function very well or develop like they should. That’s why children who don’t consume enough iron — or whose bodies don’t adequately absorb the nutrient — may feel sluggish, weak, or foggy-headed....

But at its core, punishment is a simple and useful psychological tool. It is the counterpoint to its more gallant sister: reward. Whereas reward is a mechanism that increases a behavior, punishment is a mechanism that decreases a behavior. As such it can be subtle, or it can be brutal. But it is not a punishment unless it decreases a behavior. MORE: What is the Difference, Exactly, Between Crime and Punishment?...

I kept scrolling through the thread, hoping there was some good advice for the confused and hopeless parent who seemed desperate for a solution. It contained over 100 comments, from suggestions on how to get the child more interested to how to calm her down long enough to practice her craft. “Start at a different time of day,” one commenter wrote. “Take her out for a special treat every time she gets through it with no tears....

The heart of Warren’s concept, is that, from the 1970s and onward, women increasingly entered the workforce, transforming most middle-class families into two income-households. But with that additional income came additional costs: Both parents working meant paying for childcare became a necessity. Plus, the cost of commuting to and from work each day doubled. Other costs outside the family’s control rose, too. The cost of housing as competition to get into the best public-school districts increased as did the cost of paying — and saving —for rising college tuition....

You probably already know the 9 Stages Of Date Night: Book a table. Get dressed. Greet the sitter. Pay the pizza delivery guy. Get in the car. Eat dinner. Talk about worrying about kids. Worry about the kids. Pay the sitter. Fall asleep. None of these steps are getting you closer to your end goal: Connecting with your spouse — in the naked sense. Esther Perel, whom you may know as one of the country’s foremost sexperts and whose TED talks on maintaining desire in long-term relationships or how a couple can survive an affair have been viewed millions of times, also thinks your date night could probably use a tune up....

Starting with Wonder Woman 1984, HBO Max will stream a slew of new Warner Bros titles on the same day those films are released theatrically. So, yes, this means, if you want to see Dune on its new release date on October 1, 2021, you can either go to the movie theater or, you can watch it on HBO Max. (This means you have to sign-up for HBO Max, by the way, which does cost $14....

I watch the NCAA tournament with my kid every year. She loves it. In fact, she won the family bracket pool two years running. She’s only 6, but she loves playing and watching basketball so much, I believe she might go on to land a basketball scholarship. How do I make her a legend? Brett Louisville, Kentucky It’s awesome your little girl loves basketball so much, Brett. I, for one, have been in the bottom of the bracket pool for the last decade, which makes me kind of resent your 6-year-old daughter....

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The Little Prince is a book about a regal alien trying to make sense of adults and the various worlds they inhabit. The prince struggles to understand what motivates them and why he finds them so disappointing. And it’s no wonder. He’s not an adult. They are fundamentally foreign to him. He is from the world of childhood. That’s not a place many adults get to visit. Fred Rogers went their frequently because he knew how to get there....

Here’s what VanVleet talked to The Athletic about the experience right after rejoining the team: “It makes you tired. It just gives you a little perspective, I guess, on life. Took a plane ride there, had a lot of time to think, had to sit at the hospital all day, a lot of time to think, and obviously a plane ride back. So just changing the way you’re looking at things and not be so down on yourself about everything, and just come in and enjoy the game....

According to Los Angeles Times, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new bill requiring large retail stores to provide gender-neutral toy sections. The law, which takes effect in 2024, states that retail stores with 500 or more employees “must sell some toys and child-care products outside of areas specifically labeled by gender.” Assemblyman Evan Low introduced Assembly Bill 1084, which was inspired after a staffer’s daughter asked why she had to go to the “boys section” to find certain toys....

How are sleep and sex related? I’ll state the obvious: We most commonly sleep and have sex in the same location – the bedroom. Less obvious but more important is that lack of sleep and lack of sex share some common underlying causes, including stress. Especially important, lack of sleep can lead to sexual problems and a lack of sex can lead to sleep problems. Conversely, a good night’s sleep can lead to a greater interest in sex, and orgasmic sex can result in a better night’s sleep....

January 11, 2022, kicked off the new Girl Scout cookie season. In typical years, Girl Scouts set up purchasing booths or go door to door or force their dads and moms to bring order forms to their offices and places of work to sell their cookies. People would find them outside their favorite grocery stores, in markets, and door-to-door in some communities, or pressed upon them at the water cooler....

Amid spiking Covid numbers due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant, at-home tests have been difficult to source—and expensive when found, with some retailers charging up to $50 per test. (Testing kits often come with two tests.) As the CDC recommends testing before gathering at this point in the pandemic, asking regular Americans to comply with a CDC guideline was also asking them to wallop their own wallets. That’s why, to help meet higher demand and lower the impact on people’s already hurting bank accounts, the administration pledged that free at-home testing would be available at no cost to Americans—to the tune of around $4 billion for the government, according to one senior administration official....

Here’s what’s hitting Netflix for Halloween over the next few weeks. Buckle up for the frightfest! And to be clear — much of what’s being pushed on the platform is not for your kid. It’s just for you. Here is the complete list of Netflix shows and movies coming to the service in the month of September and October, divided by what’s family friendly — and what is decidedly not....

Moving on. Sometimes it is the mental strain of the seemingly constant thunderclap of noise that is hard to believe can rise from such small people. Other times it is the physical restraint that I have to summon as I deal with my 3-year-old daughter, who has mastered the art of annoyance to a black belt level. She’s a prodigy, what can I say. She has perfected the silent yet blubbering stare that serves a response to even the simplest of yes or no questions....

“Winter is coming,” the account tweeted yesterday. First of all, Game of Thrones Twitter account, winter is absolutely not coming. In fact, we literally just left winter behind. But the show’s ignorance about the seasonal calendar did not end up riling up fans as much as their lingering fury towards the infamous finale. In the past, a tease like this would spark speculation from fans online, especially from a fanbase as passionate as the millions of viewers who obsessively consumed all eight seasons of Game of Thrones....

Just seconds before being ushered into the room we had been told what we were about to see was the oldest and most fragile of all the artist’s works on display. We were not, under any circumstances, to touch anything. If you’ve ever spent time with a 5-year-old (or my 5-year-old in particular), you know that this is a laughable request. But the docents weren’t laughing or, for that matter, fucking around....

Dear Fatherly, I’m about to take my family on a Disney vacation to Florida. We’re driving down the coast from New England so we’ll have a couple of days on the road before we get to Orlando. The thing is I’m really not looking forward to it because it seems like every time we go on a family vacation everyone is in a shitty mood all of the time. My wife has a tendency to be grumpy on vacation....