Westend61/Getty Images As a kid, there’s nothing worse than your parents arguing, especially after they’ve already split up and you thought they’d finally stop. But if you and your ex still can’t get along, how are you supposed to actually reduce the conflict for your kids’ sake (and your own)? Well, that’s where parallel parenting...
I was hardly the best version of myself in my youth. I just wasn’t into being that age, that person. I wanted to skip the awkward growing years and become the me I wanted to be. All I wanted — beyond the insecurities and boyfriends who were always disappointing and friendship drama — was to...
Courtney Hale/E+/Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the go-ahead for the U.S.’s first at-home alternative to the Pap smear. The Teal Wand, a self-administered test, will offer a "much preferred experience," to the traditional, famously uncomfortable Pap smear, according the device’s parent company, Teal Health. The Teal Wand is a vaginal...
Buena Vista Images/Photodisc/Getty Images This story is an “as told to” and anonymous. The mom in this story is the mother of one, in her 40s, living in the southeast. Sex was really hard for us after we had our child. We struggled to conceive for a long time, and when we finally got pregnant,...