“They’re not in the car,” a mom says on video showing the empty back seats of her vehicle. You can tell she’s on the very verge of laughing, but it doesn’t take long for her to completely bust a giggle. “I’m driving to school without my kids,” she says while holding back that laugh. She lets out that giggle and says, “I’m taking the kids to school, and I don’t even have them in the car....
The poster, a Facebook user named Bridgette Anne, begins her January 30 post by outlining some of people’s assumptions about stay-at-home parenting, especially stay-at-home moms (SAHM), “Everyone thinks being a stay at home mom full time is easy.” But the truth, she says, is that “it’s fucking lonely and overwhelming.” Anne goes on to talk about some of the things that people who aren’t stay-at-home parents aren’t always fully aware of, like “You forget what it means or feels like to be an individual; because your entire existence now revolves around that child,” and when a child might require constant attention, she says, “Most of us [parents] don’t even have the luxury to cry and be frustrated in peace and when we do break down people question it....
But a TikTok video recently went viral for offering a tip to parents so they know exactly what to do should their child ever go missing in a public space, and it could help a lot of parents get reunited with their child much more quickly. Our instinct when our child goes missing is to frantically look around and shout their name. But according to TikTok user Jess Martini, that’s actually not the most effective way to find them....
“We are very concerned because Arizona is in the top five states with the highest exemptions, we’re No. 4 with 5.8 percent of kindergarten-aged children exempt from at least one vaccine,” said Debbie McCune Davis, the executive director of Arizona Partnership for Immunization. Davis’s recent statement remains pretty consistent with previous findings on the matter. States like Oregon, Vermont, and Michigan are in a worse, but similarly grave situation as far as vaccinations are concerned....
We are all focused on the massive, beat-up bull chute gate. As we watch, a cowboy tugs a rope to heave open the gate and a roughly 100-pound sheep darts out with a 6-year-old, 40-pound girl, armored in a hockey helmet and reinforced vest, clinging to its back. The girl squeezes her legs around the sheep’s middle. Her arms reach around the animal’s shoulders, her fingers seeking purchase in the wool....
This year my older daughter finished elementary school. Where did the time go? I can’t even remember when she was a baby. Thankfully, I have videos and photos as a reminder, but that only puts salt in the wound. I have two advertisements from Exclusive Resorts posted at my desk at work. One is of a little girl around age 3, raising her hands as she walks in the waves of the ocean with her sisters and mother in the background....
The question is really twofold. First, is religion statistically beneficial for children? If so, perhaps participation should always be mandatory. Second, if it is not statistically beneficial, how hard can a parent push the faith without causing harm? An evidence-based answer is, unfortunately, not forthcoming. Part of the problem is the vague nature of “religion.” Try controlling for the different religious traditions, the parenting styles associated with them, and the unique backgrounds of each child, and then standardizing the data to account for greater and lesser observance....
Years ago, multiple specialists had told her our chances of having a baby were 10 percent at most. That was fine with us – I share a wonderful son, Drake, from a previous marriage and we dreamed of a new future, filled with an RV and traveling around the country as a little family of three. Then last fall, we received some surprising, but wonderful news – Hannah was pregnant....
Bushell, the 10-year-old drummer and multi-instrumentalist wunderkind who has charmed the hearts of the internet time and time again (especially with her kick-ass Nirvana cover video) with her multi-faceted, prodigy-level talent on the drums and the other several instruments she’s adept at playing, has once again linked up with Dave Grohl — but this time, it’s to continue to bury the hatchet after Bushell absolutely crushed Grohl in a drum battle in early September of this year (in our mind, Bushell won....
NASA released new images that show how impressive the fall foliage is even when it’s looked at from outer space. The agency’s Landsat 9 satellite took photos from above Earth, including images of the Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York. “Leaves in the Adirondacks were at peak or near-peak color for the season when the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9 acquired these images on October 8, 2022,” NASA explains....
“Alexa isn’t intended to be a replacement parent or caregiver,” the company said in a statement. “So we believe it’s important we treat these answers with empathy and point the child to a trusted adult when applicable.” Still, the new update is good for more than not spilling the beans about Santa Claus. FreeTime can also sensor the explicit lyrics of a particular song or block it entirely. One step further, parents can also set times during which Alexa will tell kids “Sorry I can’t play right now, try again later,” should their kids attempt to use the tool when they should be sleeping or doing homework....
To quote Lucille Ball as Helen Beardsley in Yours, Mine and Ours, on what it took to raise a happy healthy family, “… a great deal of love, a little discipline, and a husband who doesn’t criticize.” I knew I had all that, mostly. Kids and family were always a part of the equation. And in the coming years when I would begin to question my sexuality, it never dissuaded me from the dream....
Rent.com has been keeping very close tabs on rent prices across the country. For months, the data showed little signs that rental costs would slow. However, following the August data, Rent.com shared that there have been some promising signs on the rent cost front, and they have more good news from October’s data. “The rental market continued to trend downwards in October, dropping nearly a percentage point month over month after dipping 2....
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But just because it feels separate doesn’t mean that the filmmakers could do whatever they wanted. Director and comic book devotee Kevin Smith recently revealed on his podcast how the film originally ended, and it’s obvious why the studio pushed for a different ending. As a refresher, the film as it was released reaches its climax when Arthur Fleck kills Murray Franklin, the talk show host played by Robert De Niro, inciting a riot in Gotham....
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The closest that the country has come to catching up with the rest of the world is through the Family and Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993, which granted 12 weeks of federal, job-protected, but unpaid leave to eligible private and federal workers. There are very real upsides to this legislation: It gives millions of American workers job-protected federal leave, not just for the birth of a child, but also for medical events of their own, to caretake for others, or to adjust to the adoption of a child....
My immunity, I should say, is a blessing. Some people are easily disgusted and these people would not enjoy spending time with my children. But many of these people are not parents and most of them are not fathers. How do I know this, because I’ve seen the data and I’m not alone. Fathers are simply hard to disgust (even harder than mothers as it turns out). Disgustability is, like many weird traits, measured using a very specific scoring system....
“I have a lot of different friends,” explains Destiny, a beautiful, bright-eyed young girl, as she talks to her attentive mom (who is Caucasian) and dad, (who is African American). “Some of them have different skin colors than me. I don’t say, ‘Eww, you have such and such skin color. That’s gross!’ I don’t say that. I tell them, ‘You are beautiful and you are who you’re supposed to be....
“I’m VERY proud of the Norwegian female beach handball team FOR PROTESTING THE VERY SEXIST RULES ABOUT THEIR ‘uniform,’” wrote Pink. “The European handball federation SHOULD BE FINED FOR SEXISM. Good on ya, ladies. I’ll be happy to pay your fines for you. Keep it up.” Last week, the Norwegian squad played against Spain at the European Beach Handball Championship in Bulgaria and chose to wear shorts instead of bikini bottoms....
