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...
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...
TikTok It’s almost back to school season, which means that people on the internet are fighting about school supply lists. While some complaints are valid — like, why in the world are teachers expected to pay for things like tissues? — other complaints are incredibly terrible. One of the biggest controversies? Parents insisting on personalizing...
I don’t know about you, but if I had to best describe my kids this summer, it would probably be “free-range raccoons.” They’ve enjoyed every second of staying up way past their bedtime. They’ve sustained themselves largely with popsicles and Pirate’s Booty. Shoes with laces? We don’t know them. The most effort they’ve put into...