Katy Anderson is a freelance writer and a mom who wrote a blog post for Mom.com highlighting the struggles of parenting and sleep. She discusses the very relatable struggles of never feeling like you get enough sleep as a parent, “Since I first became a mom over 10 years ago, I ache for sleep in a way I have never ached for anything,” she writes. “But try explaining that to a baby or young child....
“We had conducted research on PCD in women, and the findings on the percentage of women who experience PCD seemed robust,” study author Robert Schweitzer, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Queensland University of Technology, told Newsweek. “And yet there were no similar studies relating to men.” Schweitzer’s past research surveyed 230 college-age women and found that and 46 percent had experienced PCD symptoms such as irritability and crying after otherwise pleasant intercourse at some point in their lives....
Is it okay for a parent to look through a child’s phone? My youngest children are now in their last years of high school and I would never look through their phones at this point, but when they were younger I always reserved the right to go through phones and Facebook accounts if I suspected they were in an unsafe situation. I only exercised this right once and I can truly say that I will always be grateful that I did....
A bleeding ulcer had brought us to this ugly moment. Some might have witnessed this scene experienced a world-changing disgust. Thankfully, for the last decade, my wife and I have been less than precious about our humanity. We talk about the nasty stuff. That’s just our style. It’s not as if we intentionally set out to be completely transparent about our respective grossness. It wasn’t some strategic plan for a happy marriage....
Like that terrible, busted, leaking cooler you retired begrudgingly last summer, many pop-out camp chairs are equally as garbage. They’re rusty. They sag. They’re less comfortable than a subway seat. Yeti elbows its way into this space by making an overbuilt, more robust (read: heavier and bigger) chair that can withstand much more than its aging competitors. Each Trailhead weighs a little over 13 pounds, spans shy of four feet with about a foot of diameter when folded, and is to the category the same way its coolers are to those made of styrofoam....
When We Start Seeing Race Do you play peekaboo with babies? I do it all the time—on buses, in the supermarket, at the doctor’s office. It’s such a universal icebreaker. I love how making your face vanish and reappear can amuse and surprise infants from Alaska to Zanzibar. What is it about peekaboo that tickles them so? Apparently, it’s all about their developing sense of how the world fits together. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget called it object permanence, the ability to understand that even if you can’t see something, it still exists....
Before we dive into discussing the movie, we should clarify up top: Anger Management is by no stretch a masterpiece in any cinematic sense. In fact, it features a lot of the lazy and offensive tropes that have plagued the back half of Sandler’s career. There is an entire subplot about Sandler’s character Dave being jealous of his girlfriend Linda’s ex-boyfriend for having a giant dick along with a recurring joke about Dave accidentally committing violence against women....
Now. Kids playing with baby dolls is fine. In fact, kids playing with baby dolls is sometimes a wonderful way for kids to get a bit of independence. Dolls that make noise are fine. Dolls that cry are fine. Dolls that pee their pants are fine. This isn’t an anti-doll rant. It’s this brand that’s the problem. This very specific brand of dolls (and its accompanying YouTube series) is doubtlessly torturing countless households around the world....
Just when all seems lost, and the Night King is standing over Bran, reaching for his sword to kill him and ‘wipe out’ the history of Westeros, Arya lunges from the darkness, screaming in a guttural, womanly, and high-pitched tone. The Night King turns around, grabs her by the neck, and Arya, mirroring a training session between her and Brienne in the last season, drops her dagger into her right hand, and stabs the Night King in the belly....
Spoilers ahead for the last episode of Game of Thrones. The last season of Game of Thrones earned buckets of criticism for the way it treated Daenerys. More recently many felt frustrated or and betrayed by her heel-turn in the penultimate episode when she decides, after seasons and seasons of not killing women and children, to burn King’s Landing and it’s half a million citizens to a crisp. Committing a veritable genocide was not really in Dany’s character development plan so far, but she did it, and on some level, it seems like the narrative decided she had to pay....
Spoilers! Okay, the movie ends. The good guys win, with pivotal assists not just from Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson, but also the late, great Harold Ramis. So, when the credits start to roll, we get a short, sweet on-screen tribute: “For Harold.” Sigourney Weaver returns! Then the credits are rolling and, there’s an interesting name among the cast: Sigourney Weaver. And… stop. We get a cute, playful bit with Murray and Weaver as Peter Venkman and Dana Barrett at home doing a twist on the Ghostbusters scene in which Peter tested young women’s ESP skills, praising the ladies and zapping the guys....
The first Goosebumps film came out in 2015 and was so successful in part because of Jack Black’s interpretation of playing author R. L. Stine. Plus, the tone of the film was in sync with the 230-plus Goosebumps books; i.e. light, but clever. The sequel, which comes out on Friday, is also light but looks to be slightly less clever. The first Goosebumps movie followed a group of teenagers and “R....
Yes, I get it. Joaquin Phoenix gave a masterful if controversial performance in Joker, playing the kind of misunderstood, artistically-tortured, societally-estranged guy we’ve all crossed the street to avoid. The weirdo who just can’t find his path, so he creates his own. I’ve interviewed Phoenix multiple times. He is, in person, a fucking cool dude, smart and outspoken and thoughtful. I’m happy he’s getting his due. But there’s room for two superstars in the acting categories, and Phoenix’s recognition doesn’t preclude my disappointment that Lopez was left out....
After dinosaurs were officially released into the world at the end of Fallen Kingdom, it looks like the focus of Dominion will be if dinosaurs and humans can actually coexist. While Owen (Chris Pratt) appears to be thriving as he raises his trusty raptor Blue, there are signs that the neo-Jurassic Age might not be going as well for everyone else. It turns out dinosaurs and humans do not mix all the well....
Without giving away any big spoilers, here’s everything you need to know about the new adventures of He-Man and his pals. From the number of episodes to the cast, here’s your cheat sheet for Masters of the Universe: Revelation. What is Masters of the Universe: Revelation? Masters of the Universe: Revelation is a follow-up to the 1980s series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. According to Kevin Smith: “Our show is set up as the next episode in the legacy ‘80s animated series that aired from 1983-1985....
In the years since the release of the DSM-V, “on the spectrum” has been taken up by the public and used to speak to socially, culturally, and, mentally divergent behavior. In other words, it’s been co-opted by non-professionals to explain away behavior considered odd. It’s wrong, yes, but also potentially damaging to autistic people. “On the spectrum” wouldn’t be the first term to become weaponized slang. Look at the term “retarded....
And that’s one reason why Senate Bill 8 may not be stopped by the Supreme Court — which would effectively overturn Roe v. Wade in the United States. Here’s what to know, and why what’s happening in the Lone Star State could affect people around the country, including children, people who can get pregnant, and many others. (And here’s what to know about the recent Texas district court decision by Amy Clark Meachum to temporarily stay the enactment of the law....
Scary Stories, which was produced by the great Guillermo del Toro and directed by André Øvredal, who has a couple of solid horror credits to his name, is based on the book series that likely scared millennials growing up. The stories, which were mostly author Alvin Schwartz’s riffs on old urban legends, were spooky, but Stephen Gammell’s illustrations were downright terrifying, and the film version leans heavily on Gammell’s eerie aesthetic....
Though the majority of the Toy Story 4 focuses on the escape of Forky, and the subsequent discovery of a sanctuary of lost toys, the real star of the trailer is YOUR FEELINGS. When Bonnie is looking for Woody and Forky (who have both gone missing) the Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” is playing as Bonnie holds back tears. Come on, Pixar. It’s really early in the morning. What are you doing to me?...
So, the question families will probably have before they go see the movie, is simply: Does Black Panther: Wakanda Forever pull all that off? The good news is, the answer is yes. It’s very clear that both the characters in the film and the people playing them, as well as all the behind-the-camera talent, are mourning Black Panther. It’s an earnest, effective, and at times emotionally raw cinematic processing of a beloved figure’s death....
