I grew up in a sit-down dinner household. Every night, my parents, my brother, and I would eat a home-cooked meal together. My mom did the cooking. She got home earlier (around 3:30; my dad worked until 6) but that was simply fortuitous. She took pride in her cooking in that fierce way women from Italian families do. Cooking also allowed her to lay claim to the kitchen, which was a significant motivator because she is, shall we say, touchy about the cleanliness of things....

Brian Kemp, the Republican gubernatorial candidate behind the ad is certainly playing to type. The shotgun-toting conservative dad is a well-worn cliche. As recently as 2008, country singer Rodney Atkins had a chart-topping hit with “Cleaning This Gun (Come On In, Boy)” that featured the refrain “Hey, y’all, run along and have some fun / I’ll see you when you get back / Bet I’ll be up all night / Still cleanin’ this gun....

“It is normal for everyone to feel frustrated with their partner,” says Cheri Timko, a Couples Relationship Coach. “Part of living together is navigating how to be two people with different personalities and still live together peacefully.” How we handle the differences can greatly influence other parts of the relationship, so it is important to be particularly aware in these situations. “When they are handled poorly,” Timko adds, “it can lead to anger and resentment for both partners....

Siegal explained to Fatherly why the current situation is untenable for young female stars. When I was 13, I was told to quit baseball because I was a girl. The message was delivered by the coach of a “co-ed” youth league, which was only co-ed because I was still playing in it. I decided during that stilted conversation that I would play forever. My experience was hardly unusual. About 100,000 girls play baseball at the youth level at some point....

The drawings show the ups and downs of life since his wife’s unexpected passing (she entered the hospital with flu-like symptoms and died of organ failure), such as dealing with the “grief rollercoaster.” Gary doesn’t pull any punches with his illustrations, showing the tough moments he has faced with his kids and their questions about life and death. And something as simple as a bed can bring him tremendous pain and reopen the floodgates of his grief....

Back in 2018, it was revealed that Friends was getting set to leave the Netflix streaming platform. The news received an immediate response from Friends fans who were upset about the departure. At that time, Netflix was able to make a deal to keep the series watchable, but that was only for a short time. And that time has come to say goodbye as the series sets to move to their new streaming home, HBO Max, in 2020....

The numbers show that housing prices in the United States are growing at the fastest rate in nearly three decades, but America is not alone when it comes to skyrocketing housing prices. The average price of a house in the United Kingdom increased by more than 14 percent over the last year, and that level of growth is occurring in housing markets all across the globe, with New Zealand, Sweden, and Canada’s housing markets experiencing the largest growth....

The new study, from Harvard University researchers and published in Nature, was the first to track down a scientific link between stress and gray hair. The researchers found that the nerves responsible for the fight-or-flight stress response in animals (mice, in this instance) also depletes the stem cells responsible for hair pigment. Depleting these cells eventually led the mice to develop patches of gray or white hair. Here’s how it works: Sympathetic nerves reach into each hair follicle in the skin....

All you do is pop the “Magic Top” on the Growler Chill, attach it to the trademarked “Virginator,” and suck all of the oxygen out of the “Headspace” in a process that sounds way more erotic than that it is (which is, not at all). Once the air’s been removed, you simply flip the growler over and insert into the refrigerated Growler Chill. An internal C02 cartridge (or your own external C02 source plugged into a port on the back) ensures the brew stays properly pressurized....

Last year, Hasbro submitted an application to trademark the special smell, which it describes as “a unique scent formed through the combination of a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.” Since Play-Doh first hit shelves almost half a century ago, its formula has remained mostly the same, meaning that generations of kids all grew up taking whiffs of the same dough....

If you really want to have your parenting methods questioned, become an assistant coach. Not a head coach — the head coach has to be at every practice and every game. Assistant coaches basically need to understand the art of the high-five and how to set up cones. But, they still have an impact on the game and, most importantly, the players. I am an assistant coach for my son’s flag football team....

That number has been pretty locked in since 1990, and it’s created the American standard two-kid family. While it’s seen as a replacement rate – children merely replenishing the spots of their parents – for some, it’s still too high. Estimates have the current worldwide population of 7.6 billion growing to 9.7 billion by 2050, and 11.2 in 2100, possibly even 16.6. Children, of course, add to a society. But they also create footprints and use finite resources....

The data, in this case is limited to kids without special needs born into families that don’t use any kind of public assistance and spend at least eight hours a week with a child in daycare. The study was able to correlate the dollar amount that families were able to spend on childcare with their level of education. For example, families in which the parents have just a high school diploma spend about $6....

When kids become absorbed by something that fascinates them, it can be difficult to get them to switch focus but a healthy preoccupation with something they love can be really rewarding for them. “In the normal course of development, kids can have personality styles where they get very deep into their topic of interest,” says Tamar Chansky, Ph.D., founder of the Children’s and Adult Center for OCD and Anxiety and author of Freeing Your Child from Anxiety....

“Chronic stress levels can lead to increased cortisol levels,” says Dr. Michael Robinson, a naturopathic physician and certified nutrition specialist, which “makes it very difficult for the body to lose weight, and promotes belly fat.” You can think of cortisol as the regulator for how many calories you burn. If all is well, cortisol lets your body burn around 2,000 calories a day. If you’re starving, however, cortisol levels rise and the body starts to burn the minimum it needs to keep itself alive....

We Appreciated Each Other So Much More “Seeing my wife in action as a mother just swells my heart. During the first year, it was amazing to see the way she would comfort our daughter, or power through rough nights. It was just very inspiring seeing someone rise to a challenge like that. She’s said the same about me, too. I think we both learned a lot about ourselves, and each other....

“A loveless marriage is a marriage that is more so for necessity then for pleasure or desire,” says relationship coach Jenna Ponaman. “This kind of marriage is sustained out of fear; fear of failing, fear of having to start over, fear of being alone.” Needless to say, if fear is the driving impulse of your marriage, then it is in serious trouble. Here are some warning signs that you might be heading down the loveless path and attempt to correct....

Tell us if this is true: You work hard, but you worry about having enough, so you work some more, and then even more, because “busy, busy, busy” is the American mindset, says Pam Monday, marriage and family therapist in Austin, Texas. But you still don’t know if it’s ever enough. It doesn’t get much more definitive when you’re with your kids. You can believe what you’re doing or saying is right, but you’re never really sure....

But that might actually be the wrong thing to say. Parents influence whether or not their children develop what psychologists call a “growth mindset” — a belief that intelligence can be developed over time. Children with this mindset are more likely to take on challenges, bounce back from failure, and believe they can improve with hard work. When parents deliver praise, react to failure, and even gesture and point with their babies, they affect how their children develop and think about their own intelligence....

The key to having success in therapy is to find the right therapist, one who you can trust, communicate well with, and fosters the kind of relaxed environment that you need to turn inward. Of course, finding that environment on Zoom is pretty freaking tough. But teletherapy still works and it can work well if you find the right therapist. Here’s your guide to doing just that. How to Find a Therapist Finding Therapists Through Insurance Providers Get a list of covered therapists in your area from your insurance provider....