FG Trade/E+/Getty Images Autism diagnoses are becoming more prevalent in the United States. An April report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that approximately one in 31 children (approximately 3%) were diagnosed with autism in 2022, up from one in 36 two years prior. The CDC notes this is due not...
Kinga Krzeminska/Moment/Getty Images We’ve all had the experience of feeling alone in a crowded room, right? Or knowing we have friends to call or text, yet feeling like reaching out is just pointless. We’re calling it “loneliness creep” — when that feeling of being left out or separate from those around you creeps in even...
Tomas Rodriguez/Corbis/Getty Images If you were a certain kind of kid going through the D.A.R.E. program in the ’90s, you very likely lived a good chunk of your childhood believing you were one peer-pressured joint away from a crack addiction and living on the streets. But even after those sensational fears ultimately ebbed (and for...
At any given moment, 100 thoughts are running through my brain: doctor appointments, dentist appointments, parent-teacher meetings. Did the kids take their vitamins today? The kids need new shoes — wait, shoot, I never switched the clothes over from the washer. Crap, I need a shower. As the default parent in our home, and a...