Plan Shooting2 / Imazins/ImaZinS/Getty Images Sometimes parents miss their kids’ firsts — it can hard to be around your kids 24/7, and sometimes it even feels like they wait for you to walk out the door before their first steps, their first word, or their first lost tooth. But some firsts — like your kids’...
@downsizeupgrade / TikTok Life will have other plans for us as we try to ease into 2025. Kids have sports, and we have work. There are practices and rehearsals, get-togethers, and birthday parties. We’re all running around to “do it all,” and we typically put aside the one thing that matters: quality time with our...
Rebecca Smith/Moment/Getty Images This may not sound like breaking news, but how we talk to our teens directly influences what they hear. Consider a 2015 study published in a well-respected neuroscience journal: A group of researchers selected a group of adolescents and their parents, then separated the pairs to record the moms offering neutral statements,...
sunherald / TikTok Do you remember December 1999? With the new millennium upon us, some wondered if the world would simply descend into chaos once the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31, 1999. And while some were sure that the end was nigh, students and staff at W.J. Quarles Elementary in Long Beach, MS had...