What is the Eta Aquarid meteor? The Eta Aquarids is one of two meteor showers that are created by debris from Comet Halley, and it’s named after the Eta Aquarii, the brightest star in the constellation. Comet Halley makes a full run around the Sun every 76 years, with the next being seen from Earth in 2061. But even though we can’t see the comet, the debris from it is enough to bring a spectacular sky show – including the Eta Aquarids....
What does this all mean for holiday gifting in 2019? That if you have the means and insight to offer experience gifts — an all-inclusive trip, an investment towards a vacation, a plane ticket — you should. But also be sure to pair it with a tangible token that is in itself a good gift. Sounds needy? It is. But fear not – we’ve done the work for you. Here are experience gift ideas for the whole family....
Millar has another job title, too: dad. The 46-year-old is currently raising four kids with his wife Jeana in Austin, Texas. Fatherly spoke with Millar about getting his kids into baseball, what he is teaching his sons, and why obnoxious parents continue to ruin Little League games. Opening day is only a few weeks away. Do you get as excited about a new season now as you did when you were a player?...
Here’s everything you need to know about boosters, long-term confidence in vaccine efficacy, and whether you’ll need a fourth vaccine in the future, as parents of kids under 5 wait for their kiddos to get vaccinated at all. What to Know About Booster Effectiveness The CDC study was conducted from August 2021 to January 2022, which includes the surge of COVID cases from December. The surge, prompted by the highly contagious Omicron variant, caused cases to rise significantly in the latter half of 2021 after a relatively calm summer, with hospitalizations and deaths rising in its wake....
According to AAA, gas prices are expected to reach a national average of $3.04 per gallon, which is the most a gallon of gas has cost since 2014. This is a dramatic increase from even a month ago when the average price of a gallon was only $2.88. The reason for the spike is pretty obvious: a lot more people are going to be traveling this weekend because of the vaccine, as well as most people having Monday off for Memorial Day....
For many parents, making a decision on buying a new home or renting a new apartment involves a number of decision matrices; the ranking of the public schools in their areas is obviously and logically, one of them. But, according to reporting from Mother Jones, GreatSchools methodology when it comes to making the ratings is flawed — and could contribute to neighborhood segregation and therefore, school segregation efforts across the country....
On September 18, Grimes shared a rare picture of her 9-month-old daughter, Exa Dark, on Twitter. In the photo, Exa is wearing a black onesie with an oversized pink bow in her hair. She has one hand on a copy of the book “The Birth of Tragedy” by Nietzsche — of course — and according to her mom, she’s dancing to music. “My daughter is dancing to techno over this copy of the birth of tragedy by Nietzsche,” Grimes captioned the photo....
According to one report, HBO Max and HBO added nearly 13 million subscribers over the last year, with nearly 4.4 million of those subscriptions coming in the US alone. In contrast, Netflix reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 and projects that they will lose an additional two million subscribers in April-June. Of course, it’s important to remember that none of this means Netflix is in danger of becoming the next Quibi or CNN+, at least anytime soon....
In this stressful situation, everyone could use a little bit more whimsy, and that’s exactly what Zoom’s Virtual Background feature can add to your video calls. Here’s how to set it up. Step 1. The first thing you need to do is enable Virtual Background in your account settings. It’s as simple as signing into your account on zoom.us, navigating to meeting settings, and enabling the Virtual Background setting on the meeting tab....
But for the family behind the brand, it brought something else. In her new book, Jell-O Girls, Allie Rowbottom, whose great-great-great-uncle purchased Jell-O in 1899 from its down-on-his-luck creator for $450, charts the rise and fall of the beloved food with that of her family. She writes of the “Jell-O Curse”, which derived from the fact that so many of the men in her family met untimely ends due to struggles with alcohol or suicide, but really applies to the curse of expectations laid down upon the women of the family — and many other women — from Jell-O’s marketing....
HomeAdvisor wanted to find out what neighbors think about holiday decorations, so they surveyed 1022 people and asked a variety of questions to get to the bottom of how people feel about holiday decorations, including when the right time is to put them up. The people who participated in the survey were a good mix so we can get a varied look at how people feel. This included including men, women, and nonbinary people....
We Saw Who Swiped Right “We both got Tinder accounts to spice up our marriage,” says Shirley. “We would just swipe to get matched. It just felt good to be wanted and really helped get things moving again in our marriage.” The Internet is a big place. Hopping into that pool might be a good way to avoid a case of sexual FOMO. And taking your partner along for the ride seems to help give luster to a diminishing flame....
“The typical recommendation is that sex is okay two weeks after bleeding stops,” says Mark Trolice, M.D., a fertility specialist. “But we’re dealing with a tragedy. Men make mistakes if they’re not sensitive to that devastation.” This is a common predicament: Approximately one in six pregnancies ends in miscarriage. But just because it’s common doesn’t make it any easier for would-be parents to try again. Medically speaking, Trolice and other doctors want couples to wait until the cervix is dilated as inserting anything into the vagina raises the risk of infection....
I played soccer from when I was four years old to when I was 18. I had some scholarship offers that I turned down. I was tired of playing. And by the time I got my first real job, at 19, I stopped playing soccer altogether. Through my 20’s, I just worked like crazy. I worked over 50 hours a week every single week. I became quite successful. I got a big promotion at a young age, at a big company....
Sure, there have been some parent populations who’ve broken through to the national stage. During the 1996 general election, “Soccer Moms” became a sought-after demographic. Eight years later, “NASCAR Dads” had a brief moment in the sun. But the issues that supposedly defined these voters had little to do with the well-being of children. Soccer moms were affluent suburban white ladies. NASCAR dads were middle-aged, lower-middle-class, southern white men. The fact that these poorly sketched caricatures were parents was not ultimately relevant....
In the 1980s, Daniel Lanois was a collaborator of Brian Eno, which eventually led to him producing the U2 album The Joshua Tree. He also produced the underrated Bob Dylan album Oh Mercy and Neil Young’s Le Noise in 2010. Rolling Stone once called him the most important producer of the 1980s. So what’s that got to do with Raffi? Well, Lanois, before he became a producer, is the guy who engineered Singable Songs For the Very Young....
The first thing parents need to do is to forget their fears of raising tiny megalomaniacs. “There is no such thing as too much self-esteem. Self-esteem comes from your understanding of yourself and the world around you,” says psychiatrist Lea Lis, M.D. “Your self-esteem cannot be too healthy.” When Do Kids Start Developing Self-Esteem? Researchers have only recently discovered that children start to develop self-esteem as early as 5-years-old. This is when the brain starts to create thought and behavioral patterns known as schemas, or “packets of information which are accumulated and stored in the neural networks of your brain over long periods of time,” Lis explains....
“Boys are capable of wanting to blow things up, set things on fire, make loud noises, jump off of things, and even make fart jokes – and all fart jokes are funny,” says Rosalind Wiseman, whose books Queen Bees And Wannabes and Masterminds And Wingmen are bestselling examinations of how traditional gender expectations can negatively impact kids. “That same boy is capable of deep love, deep feelings, deep confusion and desperately needing meaning in his life....
“Building those relationships very early on sets the stage for what is happening cognitively later in terms of children’s language development,” Jennifer Jenkins, a professor of early child development at the University of Toronto, told Fatherly. “It also affects their ability to be empathetic towards other people.” How to Get an Older Sibling Involved in Baby Care Involve them from the start. Even if they aren’t ready to get their hands dirty with diaper changes and bottle feedings, younger kids can still play an important role in soothing and stimulating baby....
