Last year was difficult for everyone, and children in particular faced many challenges. Millions of American kids haven’t stepped foot in a classroom since last March, and many have lost loved ones or are facing food insecurity. Kids have been cut off from their friends and favorite activities, and they’ve had to learn to live […]
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Parents draw baby name inspiration from a variety of sources ― family history, pop culture, literature and even food. For many, geography offers meaningful ideas. But American parents aren’t just turning to glamorous international locales like Paris and London for baby name fodder. Many of them are sticking closer to home and picking the names […]
If you put self-care on the back burner in 2020, you’re hardly alone. This past year was undeniably stressful, with strange event after strange event happening on the regular (a global pandemic, an election that seemed to last eons, mass unemployment ― and that’s just chipping the surface). Given all of that, many of us […]
Actor Tanya Roberts, known for her role in the James Bond film “A View to a Kill” and in “That ’70s Show,” died on Monday at age 65 after being in the hospital for a few days. Her representative told People that her cause of death “was from a urinary tract infection which spread to […]
Another new coronavirus strain has been identified in South Africa, just a few weeks after health officials discovered a more infectious strain shooting across the United Kingdom. The new variant, known as the B.1.351 lineage, has quickly become the dominant strain in South Africa, driving a rapid increase in infections up and down the coast. […]
If you spend significant portions of your day listening to your children talk about Roblox, you’re not alone. The online gaming platform has taken the kid world by storm over the past few years, but quarantine life during the COVID-19 pandemic has given it an extra boost in popularity. So naturally, parents are tweeting about […]
The amount of information out there is dizzying. It’s hard to keep track of what’s known, what’s a myth and what guidance we should follow. That’s why we’ve rounded up five of the most important new things we learned about COVID-19 in December: 1. New, more contagious strains are circulating. It was big news last […]
After Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna died in a helicopter accident in January 2020, the basketball legend’s sister Sharia Washington paid tribute to her late brother and niece with a new tattoo. The ink featured their jersey numbers circled by a snake in the shape of an infinity symbol ― a reference to Bryant’s […]
Pulse oximeters are becoming increasingly popular for home use, as people buy them to monitor if someone in the family becomes seriously ill with COVID-19. The devices, which measure the percentage of oxygen in the blood when clipped on to a fingertip, have been praised by doctors because they can alert people who don’t realize […]
In early December, just as the third wave of the coronavirus was gaining steam across the United States, comedian Michael Rapaport took to Instagram to make a simple, characteristically expletive-laden plea to his followers: If you get COVID-19, post about your symptoms. “Anybody with a platform, I am begging you, please if you have coronavirus […]