Raffi shared his latest song on Twitter titled “Dylan Sings Quarantine,” and it’s all about, you guessed it, the coronavirus COVID-19 and being quarantined. Not only does it touch on that, but he sings about the need and importance of social distancing, how and why to wash your hands often, and why Medicare is so important. He’s not afraid to tackle these subjects for kids, and it’s a good thing....
marriagesargumentsdivorcedivorce numbersTheQuickDivorce.com. 1. Confrontation Was Simply Unavoidable Before COVID forced everyone indoors, it might have been easier for couples to avoid confronting the aspects of their marriages that irked them. They could work late, take classes, socialize with friends and indulge in whatever distractions kept them from examining their relationships. However, the lockdown of the spring and early summer took away many of those distractions, leaving couples with no way to avoid all of the issues they had been trying to cover up....
Reynolds said that he fell in love with his wife more than he had with anyone else in his life and before they had kids together, he could never imagine loving anyone nearly as much as he loved her. “I used to say to her, ‘I would take a bullet for you,’” Reynolds told Letterman in the resurfaced viral TikTok that was just recently posted on Digg. “I could never love anything as much as I love you....
As of last week, San Francisco’s schools have had no COVID-19 outbreaks since opening for the fall, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) reports, despite being open since mid-August. The department of health defines an outbreak as three or more cases originating from infection in school. NPR reports that this achievement came even amid a nationwide increase in pediatric COVID-19 cases, citing data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association....
Reddit user u/Patience_Wrong hit up AskReddit with a question that many could benefit from hearing the answer to. They posed the question, “Just got married the other day, wondering what is the key to a happy marriage?” And hundreds of people flooded the comments with really good advice. “Always remember it’s you and your spouse vs the problem, not you vs your spouse,” eloel answered. “Don’t forget to be friends,” said FiveSixSleven....
As Sedona has become a world-class mountain biking and trail running destination, the 218-casita resort has remade itself into a family-oriented luxury adventure basecamp. The centerpiece is the Trail House a 4,000-square foot facility designed by Gluckman Tang Architects in 2019 that functions as the resort’s adventure lobby, housing a skylit map room, fire-pits to gather around with post-adventure libations, and a full-service bike shop. Trail House’s adventure advisors — essentially a trail concierge – can steer guests to which trails are best suited based on scenery, skill level, and steepness....
Back in 1983, when director Bob Clark decided to follow his back-to-back triumphs of Porky’s and Porky’s: The Next Day with a modestly budgeted adaptation of folksy humorist Jean Shepard’s semi-autobiographical writings about his childhood, he never could have guessed what a remarkable and enduring legacy his over-achieving little Yuletide sleeper — A Christmas Story — would have. But Christmas can do strange and wonderful things for Xmas-themed entertainment. As the director of the seminal 1974 slasher hit Black Christmas, Clark knew that firsthand....
“No,” Biles replied on 60 Minutes when asked if she would ever allow a daughter of hers to participate in USA Gymnastics. “Because I don’t feel comfortable enough, because they haven’t taken accountability for their actions and what they’ve done. And they haven’t ensured us that it’s never going to happen again.” Biles was one of the hundreds of young female athletes who were sexually abused by Nassar during his tenure as the USA Gymnastics national team doctor....
Last week, the world met BB-8 in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer and learned his adorable free-rolling motion was engineered by none other than Sphero, the smartest ball in this or any galaxy. Nerds everywhere, recalling the days of skipping school to grab the new R5-D4 figure from K·B Toys, immediately wondered when they could get their hands on their own BB-8. Now, it appears you will, in fact, be able to have one of these remote-controlled droids rolling through your living room this Christmas for a cool $150, which — be honest — you’ll gladly pay whether or not your kid demands it....
Hillenburg was inspired to create SpongeBob and Bikini Bottom after at working at a marine institute. He decided to create a world where fish behaved more like people than fish. Squidward Tentacles, Patrick Star and Gary the Snail became animated icons for two generations. In 2017, Hillenburg revealed that he had been diagnosed with ALS but assured fans that he planned to keep working on Spongebob for as long as he could....
“While parents’ intentions are typically innocuous, I’d discourage parents from using this terminology,” Dana Dorfman, and psychotherapist and co-host of the podcast 2 Moms on the Couch, told Fatherly. “Such statements are often conveyed in with a joking, humorous tone- which children are unable to understand. They may interpret this as something to be ashamed of.” Until around age five, it probably doesn’t matter. Although children begin developing language skills around age two, they’re likely to miss terms like “boyfriend” or “girlfriend”, and their grasp of tone, mocking, and joking is essentially non-existent....
Student loan debt is a crushing reality for millions of Americans, one that makes it harder for them to gain wealth and engage in the classic middle-class economic behaviors like having kids or buying a house. Jokes point to the fact that people will spend their entire lives trying to pay it all back. And while prominent politicians dilly dally about whether or not they will cancel any amount of student debt, a new survey points to the fact that a lot of Americans really just want those debts canceled outright, making it look a lot like a bipartisan policy....
For her new book Indebted: How Families Make College Work At Any Cost, Caitlin Zaloom, a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, interviewed more than 160 families who have borrowed to send their kids to college about the stress of loans. Student debt, she argues, has changed the fabric of the middle class family — to the extent having student loan debt is the new marker of the middle class....
So how do these amphibians attack the virus? Hydrophylax bahuvistara, the frogs in question, produce slime complete with “host defense peptides” that defend them against bacteria. The research, set to be published in the journal Immunity, suggests that these peptides could be utilized for antiviral drugs as well. Peptides are short chains of amino acids that act as the building blocks of proteins. Some antibacterial peptides often work by punching holes in cell membranes, which makes them toxic to people....
In fact, per the study, newborns worldwide will face “seven times more scorching heatwaves during their lives than their grandparents,” under current climate policy. They will also live through “2.6 times more droughts. 2.8 times as many river floods, almost three times as many crop failures, and twice the number of wildfires” as people born 60 years ago. That reality will be worse for children living in poor countries. The study, from a research group out of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium, was conducted by computing the lifetime exposure to climate change for every generation born between 1960 and 2020 worldwide....
The Washington Post, more American K-12 students than ever got F’s in the first semester of the 2020-2021 school year than ever. This is both surprising and not surprising at all. After all, when COVID-19 hit in March, many students already struggled with the rapid shift to remote learning. Many of the baked-in inequities of going remote — from a lack of wifi access to a lack of learning space free of distraction at home to a lack of a computer — were not ameliorated over the summer and, although some schools reopened this year to in-student instruction, many others have not....
The bill, authored by State Representative Cole Hefner, would allow both parents and healthcare providers to be charged with felony abandonment of a child for providing their kid access to puberty blockers or hormone therapy for gender transition. The bill proposes that they be able to be charged with up to a second-degree felony, which can result in up to 20 years in jail, according to the Houston Chronicle. Notably, the bill provides exceptions for intersex children....
We’d argue these 20 companies are more deserving than many of those you’d find on more traditional innovation lists — because who really needs innovative products? Is it the guy who wants to answer a phone call with his wrist, or a parent whose baby is screaming too hard to take their temperature? Is it the guy who wants to Snapchat while his car drives itself, or the parent staring down a 5-hour flight with a 3-year-old and needs screen time options that won’t melt their brain?...
Are tantrums painful and incredibly hard for parents to deal with? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean a child who is having a tantrum is kicking and screaming to harm or hurt their mom and dad. Tantrums are baked into childhood and defy management. That’s why some of the biggest harsh truths about tantrums are linked to the fact that they don’t require child discipline, but they do require a disciplined parent who can show calm compassion in the face of bottomless rage....
