Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment/Getty Images Traveling with kids means packing everything under the sun and remembering to charge all the tablets for the flight. But what if you could also try to avoid the crankies when you finally arrive at your destination? If you’re worried about disrupting your kids’ sleep schedules, we asked sleep experts the...
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12 Middle-School Moms Share Their Best Advice For Parents & Kids
Yulia Petrova/Moment/Getty Images Middle school is a rough period of time — for both kids and their parents. It’s not always the actual school part that’s the problem; it’s that this chunk of age, from 11ish to 14ish, can feel like a rollercoaster (and not in a great way). There’s so much blossoming independence along...
The Presidential Fitness Test Is Back: Time To Fake Some Period Cramps
StockPlanets/E+/Getty Images Ahhhhh! Oh. Sorry. I was just having this terrible nightmare where my middle school gym teacher was yelling at me to run faster during the one-mile run as I asthmatically struggled to breathe and all my classmates laughed at me. You remember the Presidential Fitness Test, right? That week or so in gym...
Vaccine Exemptions For Kindergarteners Reach New High According to CDC
Jackyenjoyphotography/Moment/Getty Images Traditionally, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) release vaccination rates for last year’s kindergarteners in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, its chief publication. But this week, in a perhaps unsurprising break with tradition, the agency — under the auspices of noted vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy — the data was quietly released...