Some nights, when the kids are finally in bed and we’re all alone, she snuggles up close and sneaks a hand up the back of my shirt. Her fine-tuned fingernails roam widely across my skin until she finds it: the bulge. Whether it’s a small blackhead or a big swollen pimple, the result is the same. She proceeds to squeeze until it bursts or my pathetic cries for mercy somehow convince her to stop....
Five people showed up to my fourth and final baby class three years ago: two babies, one teacher, and two dads. I started the session with high hopes. For once, I wasn’t the only dad. And unlike previous classes where kids fought over percussion instruments, there’d finally be enough drums to go around. But we didn’t play any drums that day. Instead, we each held our kids and danced in a circle....
Much accounts for the mass resignations, which started during the COVID pandemic. Low pay, lack of opportunities for advancement, and feeling disrespected at work were the top three reasons according to a Pew Survey of workers who left their jobs in 2021. Also factoring into the decision to quit were a reshuffling of life priorities, a dissatisfaction with employers for ending work-from-home policies, and a lack of realistic options for child care and other such necessities that forced parents to resign....
Set the scene: what caused you to lose it? Dog shit. Literally, I stepped in dog shit. Okay. Were you on the street? At home? I’ve got two sons – 8 and 10. My wife and I made a deal with them and said that, if they did the best they could in school last year, we would consider getting a puppy. Well, they crushed it. Straight As, check marks, all that stuff....
As an education researcher and professor of digital literacy, I study the education benefits and perils of digital gaming. These range from providing opportunities for collaborative problem-solving to displaying content that perpetuates racism and sexism. Connection and collaboration Digital games can provide a forum for a diverse group of people to come together. That’s especially important now, while our physical locations are restricted. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, undergraduates have shared with me the vital importance of digital games for their social connection....
“There’s a difference between intimate and affectionate touching, which women like, and groping, which might feel sexy to a woman, but also might feel intrusive and demanding,” Tina Tessina, Ph.D., a psychotherapist and author of How to Be Happy Partners, told Fatherly. “Most women do not like being treated like a possession or an object.” That’s not to say that touch, when used appropriately, cannot be a good thing. Non-romantic touch can make bus drivers more likely to give out free rides, grocery store shoppers more likely to enjoy free samples, and even strangers more likely to return spare change left behind in a phone booth, research shows....
“I’ve gotten more responses on The Princess Bride than on everything else I’ve done put together — all kinds of strange outpouring letters,” Goldman said in 1979. “Something in The Princess Bride affects people.” The mystery of why people were affected by a movie full of puns and weird jokes is fairly easily solved in hindsight. The movie was progressive and subversive without ever being off-putting or self-righteous. The movie was deeply uncynical and deeply kind....
Wireless Earbuds Deals The next time your kids swipe your earbuds, you can find them using the Bose app’s locator. These Bose beauties have an IPX4 rating and come with three different pairs of StayHear and sport tips to fit every ear. You get up to five hours of battery life, plus an additional ten with the included charging case. And of course, you can take work calls; the earbuds have an integrated dual microphone array located on the right earbud....
The Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutionality of the law, and in doing so, essentially overturned Roe v. Wade. Other states are sure to follow suit and make it much harder for anyone to get an abortion and potentially financially disastrous for anyone who helps a person obtain an abortion. In response, the House Democrats pushed forward a bill to protect abortion rights federally. Sadly, though the bill passed, it seems like a lost cause....
First of all, it’s not like people who have switched to the four-day-week are spending an entire day off napping in a blanket fort. Rather, workers who shifted to 32-hour workweeks are getting an average of 7.58 hours of sleep each night, according to new research from Boston College sociologist and economist Juliet Schor. That added slumber amounts to almost an additional hour of sleep each night compared to what they logged while working a traditional 40-hour week....
Sociologists researching the relationships of men and women to their in-laws have found specific stressors that lead to conflict. Here’s a different way to put that: You don’t want a relationship with your mother-in-law for the same reasons everyone else hates their in-laws. Here is the data on those reasons, and why it’s important to get past them. The Strongest Predictor of Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships You would think grandparents who spend the most time with their grandchildren would report the strongest relationships with them....
Spoiler about a possible joke ahead! You’ve been warned! Twice. So, here’s the deal, apparently, in Endgame, it’s revealed that the one living member of the Avengers who has never been on a spaceship is…Black Widow! Apparently, in one scene in which the whole gang is on a spaceship, Rocket Racoon wonders aloud if there’s anyone who hasn’t been on a spaceship. And Black Widow puts up her hand. Not exactly shocking, but definitely unfair....
With that in mind, here are the five best theories we’ve got for Avengers: Endgame, and yeah, they mostly involve Ant-Man and Hawkeye. (What follows is pure speculation, but if these theories happen to be true, they could be spoilers. So, you’ve been warned, possible spoilers ahead.) First up, here’s that awesome trailer again. Now, on to our theories! 5. Hawkeye’s family was hit hard by Thanos In Infinity War Clint Barton/Hawkeye doesn’t join the fight because we’re told he’s protecting his family....
Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones, season 8, episode 3, “The Battle of Winterfell.” There is no doubt that everyone mentioned above is highly skilled in the art of war and would slaughter any of us on the battlefield with ease. But with all due respect to them, the who-is-the-best fighter-in-GoT debate officially ended last night, as none other than Arya Stark proved herself to be the unquestioned queen of combat thanks to her MVP performance during the Battle of Winterfell....
It’s clear quickly that what makes this film different isn’t the main character, another assassin with more notches than belt, but the filmmaking. As a movie, Gemini Man is entertaining fluff. As a pitch for the movie theaters, it’s compelling stuff. Pushing past the flywheel plot, which is amply summarized by the poster but fun to consider arithmetically (Manchurian Candidate + The Prestige, The Parent Trap/Frankenstein, Adaptation x Collateral), the movie comes into focus as a fairly profound statement about the value proposition of going out and eating popcorn in a dark room full of strangers....
This means the days of finding this periodical out-in-the-wild is over, not only for adults but for kids, too. The reasons for the change are almost certainly economic; the print magazine business has been in trouble since the dawn of the internet, but that doesn’t make the news any less tragic. According to the tweets of one former editor, Allie Goertz, Mad will reissue several old issues and also continue to publish end-of-the-year-round-ups, so, for the casual observer, not much will seem to change....
Spoilers ahead for The Mandalorian episode 8, “Chapter 8: Redemption.” So, at the very end of the episode, it’s pretty clear that Moff Gideon isn’t dead, because Giancarlo Esposito is a little too badass to just use in two episodes. And sure enough, the final scene if him cutting himself out of his crashed TIE Fighter. And he’s cutting himself out with…what looks like a blake-bladed lightsaber. Here’s the deal....
The group, an offshoot of Southern Poverty Law Center-certified hate group the American Family Association, describes its goal as stopping “the exploitation of our children, especially by the entertainment media.” In their minds, anything beyond Leave It To Beaver is a threat to kids, and positive portrayals of homosexuality are a popular target. The group’s past targets include JCPenney for hiring Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman, the CBS show Person of Interest for introducing a married lesbian couple, and Geico for a commercial that they somehow thought was encouraging teens to experiment with bestiality....
The first problem you’re going to encounter as an American fan of Rilakkuma and Kaoru is telling people that you like Rilakkuma and Kaoru because they’re not going to have any idea what you just said. Rilakkuma is a sentient stuffed bear whose name is a conjunction of the words “relax” and “kuma”; the latter of which is the Japanese word for bear. He’s a relaxing bear. His interests include sleeping, eating pancakes, and… that’s it, those are his interests....
Most of the original voice cast is on board, including E.G. Daily (Tommy), Nancy Cartwright (Chuckie), Cheryl Chase (Angelica), Cree Summer (Susie) and Kath Soucie (Phil and Lil), but based on the trailer, the revamped show will feature CG animation, as opposed to charmingly crude 2D animation viewers, saw in the Nickelodeon version that debuted in 1991. Times change, right? So, we’re cool with the new look for our old friends....
