More than 6 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given so far in the United States. Many health care workers and other high-risk individuals have now received both doses, which means they’re one step closer to getting their lives back. But what does “back” actually mean when the U.S. is still in the […]
As violent rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, President-elect Joe Biden delivered a televised address to the nation. “Think what our children watching television are thinking,” he said in his remarks. That’s something many parents have considered while images of destruction, violence, and chaos flood the internet and TV airwaves. When there are major […]
Zoom fatigue is so very real, after nine months of video calls. Early in 2020, it felt like our only portal to the world we’d left behind – but now many of us are, quite frankly, over it. Even Zoom’s chief operating officer, Aparna Bawa, acknowledged how we feel in an interview with the BBC […]
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 […]
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 […]