Being the smartest person in the room isn’t for the faint of heart. Your brain is constantly spinning, making connections between minute details that others deem immaterial. And when the people around you make a mess, it’s a major exercise in self control not to clean it up. Morgan Gillory, the central character of ABC’s newest procedural High Potential, knows this feeling well. The series follows Morgan (played perfectly by the inimitable Kaitlin Olson), a single mother of three and high potential intellectual with an IQ upwards of 160. After a chance discovery of case evidence during her shift as...
Stassi Schroeder's New Book Gets Real About Making Mom Friends
The following is an excerpt from chapter 9 — Mom Friends Forever! (Or Not) — of Stassi Schroeder’s new book, You Can’t Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide To Taking The Pressure Off. Since Hartford started getting invited to birthdays, my social anxiety has found a new reason to kick into overdrive. Based on the amount of stress I experience before baby and toddler parties, you’d think I was raised in a dark cave with zero human contact. Kid birthday parties are a breeding ground for social awkwardness. I mean, for the most part, I don’t know most of...
I Moved 6 Times As A Kid, & I Refuse To Do It To My Kids
— Anchiy/E+/Getty Images I moved a lot as a kid. My dad worked in pulp paper mills in the 80s and 90s — not a great time for the industry — so we moved six times, chasing jobs. We spent at most four years in a town, which was long enough to feel settled but short enough that it never feel like home. I went to two elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools. I’m not from anywhere, and the only old friends I talk to now are ones I found over social media years later. But there...
Study: Parents Who Teach Kids To Shoot Guns More Likely To Store Them Unlocked
— Gilbert Laurie/Photographer’s Choice RF/Getty Images It’s no surprise that parents who own firearms might want to teach their children gun safety and proper handling — since 2020, firearm-related injuries have become the leading cause of death for children in the United States. However, a new study has shown that parents who teach children how to use guns properly are also less likely to store their weapons securely, a safety hazard that puts kids at a greater risk of injury and death. In a study published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics, researchers found that parents who demonstrated and practiced proper firearm...