Three years later, Columbia Pictures released the inevitable sequel, My Girl 2, which is streaming until January 31 on Netflix. It seemed misguided. The first film totally deserved its success, but it spun a complete tale and killed off its breakout star. Who’d go see a Culkin-less follow-up? Well, pretty much no one. The film bombed and the reviews weren’t kind. And yet… My Girl 2 is an overlooked gem, a perfect family film, a relatable tale for girls on the verge of puberty, and a worthy sequel to My Girl....

Back in early 1987, Kenner released a line of busters action figures based on the animated series. This meant you could get cartoon versions of Peter, Ray, Winston and Egon, each with removable proton packs and a little plastic ghost which, if you’re my age, you either stuck on your finger or jammed onto the heads of the various busters. Now, those exact action figures are coming back. According to the press release from Hasbro: “THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS Kenner Classics Figure assortment from Hasbro, inspired by the classic figures from Kenner....

Running: The Fartlek If you’re running for weight loss, you need to rethink your slow and steady jogs. Start with fartleks, short bursts of fast running interspersed with easy jogging. During a 20-minute run around the neighborhood, do a dead sprint between every third and fourth lamppost, then easy-jog for three more. Burpees With Push-Ups Long live the burpee! You’d be hard-pressed to find a bodyweight movement that does so much, working the muscles, legs, lungs, heart....

“Ninety-nine percent of all products and services that claim to stop, prevent, or treat hair loss don’t work,” Kobren says. He notes that social media has attracted additional “medical misinformation and phony, bogus products and services.” These products don’t get at the root of the problem. But there are real ways to prevent hair loss, once you cut through all the BS. This is what you need to know....

Unfortunately, everything on the list, from Big-Mac’s to a new home, to a new Rubik’s cube, are way more expensive. Almost unsurprisingly there was only one item on the list that stayed even roughly the same price: the U.S. postage stamp. In 1985, a postage stamp cost 22 cents, when that price is adjusted for inflation it comes out to 52 cents which is actually about what you would pay for a stamp right now....

What Does Beard Oil Do? Just as our hair requires certain products to keep it looking and feeling great, beards have similar needs. And similar to shampoo, the products we use to wash our face can strip the oils from our beard, leaving hair dry and brittle, beard oil coats and conditions the hairs of your beard, replenishing those lost oils and helping to lock in moisture while leaving behind a soft, healthy sheen without looking greasy....

When your kids are older, one of the best ways to move on is to interrogate the mistakes, promise to — and plan to — do better, and share your wisdom with others so that they’re better prepared. When you’re a new parent, it’s good to hear from those who’ve been there before. That’s why we spoke to 14 dads about what they wish they told their kids more often when they were younger....

That’s why they need their parents — and fathers in particular — to set a good example and to talk to them about, well, everything. But, often, things that are assumed go unsaid and sons are the worse for it. So, what should fathers keep in mind? To get a small sense of it, we asked a variety of men what they wished their dad said to them more often when they were boys....

America is facing a serious baby shortage. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control announced that America’s 2019 fertility rate was 1.71, one percentage point lower than 2018. A single percentage point wouldn’t be a cause for alarm for most statistical records. But the modern American fertility rate, which reflects the average number of children women will have over their lifetimes, has eroded steadily for more than a decade. The previous rate, 2018’s 1....

Lenders have all sorts of ways to measure your ability to pay back home loans, and with good reason. They’re fronting you a big chunk of money, and the investors who eventually buy most of those mortgages want to know they’re making a smart decision. The debt-to-income, or DTI, ratio looks at your total loan payments in relation to how much income you’re making. The more money you bring in, lenders believe, the greater your ability to take on debt and still make your monthly due dates....

“Closeness is low risk, low anxiety, high predictability, comfort, familiarity, explains Dr. Tom Murray, a couples counselor and sex therapist. “With intimacy, there’s a substantial degree of mystery in the relationship. And, and that allows for high risk, high anxiety, low predictability, newness and novelty.” ` Closeness is a vital component of any long-term relationship, Murray says. It’s necessary for the safety and security that fuels a committed and monogamous partnership....

A common exchange might go something like this: What is play? “Play is innate.” But what is it? “It’s an aspect of biological, psychological, and social development.” So why do they do it? “Kids play to make sense of their world and practice things they have learned and observed, practice new skills, interact with others, and to communicate.” The initially broad answers above come courtesy of child behavior expert Stacy Stefaniak Luther, PsyD, a counselor and play therapist....

Knowingly? Yes. But also no. That’s how it goes in Pakistan. We didn’t see a bloodbath coming but we weren’t entirely blind or deaf to the conditions. It was 2007. My wife and I were teaching middle school history and high school English in the Florida public schools. We were secure, solidly middle-class professionals, but we wanted more. We wanted our kids to have more. We wanted to see the world, to have experiences unavailable in safe, flat, calm coastal Florida....

Historically, religious conservatives have argued that abortion hurts women. Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, for example, used this line of reasoning in his 2007 decision to uphold a ban on what is divisively called “partial-birth abortion,” a type of late-term abortion. “It was reasonable to him that women would regret their decision and be depressed,” says Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D., a demographer at the University of California, San Francisco who studies how abortion affects women....

When you consider every possible topic of conversation, where would you rank “Penises” in terms of desirability? I don’t mean: How much do you desire penises? Goodness. We’ve only just met. I mean: As subject matter, how interested are you in discussing male privates? Very low interest, right? Me too! It’s fun and hilarious on the internet. But it turns out it’s significantly less fun in real-life conversations with female school teachers and administrators acting as if your kindergartener is a top candidate for their “Future Sex Offenders of America” program (which probably doesn’t even exist), while they judge you silently with a “He learned this from you, didn’t he?...

There are several factors to consider before leaving your children unattended, including local laws, the overall safety of the location, and whether your kids are anything like Kevin McCallister. Here are some questions to ask before handing your child the keys to the house: The Legal Question Parents can get into quite a bit of legal trouble for leaving their children unattended. If a nosy neighbor reports you for leaving your child home alone at too tender an age, Child Protective Services may open an investigation and even recommend that you lose custody....

This is a long way of saying, hey, childless people, I get it. You think parents can’t see beyond themselves. You think parents chose the inconvenience of having a child, and therefore, have no right to create a proxy inconvenience for anyone else. In a widely circulated New York Times article, the idea that of a Carrie Bradshaw-style war between childless workers and parents is back in fashion. It discusses how Facebook employees believe, apparently, that flexible leave policies “have primarily benefited parents....

“Boys and men tend to participate in ritual opposition more than girls and women,” says Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and author of You’re the Only One I Can Tell. “Girls will fight, but not for fun.” Ritual opposition, or fighting for sport, is a popular activity among males not only across cultures but also across mammalian species. The behavior tends to begin in early childhood, affecting how young kids play....

If you learned to ride a bike back in the ’80s or early ’90s, you probably took the standard progression. It went: tricycle, training wheels, and then bruised and bloody limbs on a newly 2-wheeled pain machine. But there is increasing debate that training wheels should go the way of the penny-farthing. What replaces them? The balance bike. Check out the argument (which doesn’t include any mention of how crashing builds character, you pansy)....

Testing increases aren’t likely the cause: The number of kids tested has increased this summer, but there wasn’t much of a difference in testing kids between late July versus June and early July. The virus may have mutated, but there is no data to suggest so. Besides, most mutations are either neutral or harmful to the virus itself. The most likely explanation is that the rise in infections in children is simply in lockstep with the exponential rise in total case numbers....