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“Having needs makes it seem like you’re needy,” offers Sarah Epstein, licensed marriage and family therapist in Dallas and author of Love in the Time of Medical School. To have needs may go against the ingrained idea that you should always be the one who solves problems, not creates them. But expressing your needs is not being needy. In fact it’s part of being in a relationship where you ask for stuff and where the other person gives you what you might be missing, and vice versa....

No, you don’t. More to the point? You can’t. Sometimes you have to think about the past or future, and doing so doesn’t mean you’re not being present. But there is a lot merit for consciously trying to live in the moment every once in a while — for yourself and your family. In its simplest form, living in the moment is about being aware of yourself and surroundings. It’s about giving attention to your thoughts, and really, it’s about fighting the drift where your head gets taken away and you have no clue about the last five, 10, 15 minutes....

This Hulu offer starts at 12 am PT on November 28th and ends at 11:59 pm PT on December 2nd, and with a 66% discount, it’s the best deal you’ll find for that service this year. New users can sign up to get this Black Friday deal during this promotional period by heading over to their sign-up page at signup.hulu.com. As we mentioned, this deal comes with the limited-ads tier, so if you want to watch your Hulu shows without commercials, it’ll cost you a lot more as that SVOD tier isn’t included in the Black Friday deal and is still at $11....

The Sladda is a sleek, low-maintenance 2-wheeler aimed at urban commuters and people who don’t have time to take care of bikes — so, obviously, parents. It boasts a lightweight, rustproof aluminum frame (26- or 28-inches, small enough if you want a matching ride for your 12-year-old) and rocks a chainless/no-grease belt train that’s designed to take you 9,000 miles before needing replacement. It also has automatic gears that do all the shifting — you just select “high” or “low....

Instacart is booming right now as more people look to use the service while they’re quarantined or isolated at home. According to the company, they’ve seen a 150 percent increase in orders, and this sounds like a good thing, but Instacart workers are scared. However, Instacart workers worried about their safety during the coronavirus outbreak are threatening to strike nationwide because they feel their safety isn’t being looked after. According to WCVB News, Instacart workers have been looking to the company to provide workers with hazard pay and protective gear....

Honestly, the Bluetooth-enabled ION Audio Pathfinder looks like it could survive a trip over a cliff. It might technically be a Pathfinder, but it’s built Ford tough. As in, you could leave it out in the rain and not worry at all. Although with a telescoping handle, wheels, and a side carrying handle, there’s really no reason to leave it out; the ION Audio Patherfinder is too easy to take with you....

Marc Spector is the central character in Moon Knight, one of Marvel Comic’s more obscure titles. Marvel’s site offers a crisp one-sentence description of the property: “Struggling with multiple personalities and amoral inclinations, Marc Spector fights on against all odds as the cloaked avenger Moon Knight.” A costumed superhero character in the vein of Bruce Wayne/Batman, Marc Spector/Moon Knight was first introduced to comic book readers in 1975, when Doug Moench (writer) and Don Perlin (artist) featured him on the pages of Werewolf by Night #32....

So, with that in mind, is the latest book carrying the name “Lemony Snicket” in that same tradition? Is this really a book for the same (grade school-aged) kids who read, and loved the other books? The short answer is kind of. Who is Lemony Snicket? First things first: If for some reason, you don’t know this, Lemony Snicket is both a fictional character and an “author.” In real life, Lemony Snicket is the pen name of author Daniel Handler, but in the context of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Snicket is also a colorful character, a person who knew the parents of the Baudelaire orphans, and whose siblings — Jacques Snicket and Kit Snicket — have powerful and pivotal roles in those books....

The question — and heated debate — comes down to this: are the earth tone bath robe-esque clothes of the Jedi their actual “uniform” or just a weird fashion choice? DiClaudio pointed out that after the events of Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan Kenobi exiled himself on Tatooine in order to protect Luke Skywalker from the Empire. Nothing controversial there. But, as anyone who has seen the prequels will tell you, Kenobi—and countless Jedi for that matter— wore a very similar garb....

Remember the 1990 hit Ghost in which Patrick Swayze played a hunky ghost who haunted Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg was also there? Yes, it’s a movie that came out a full year after Ghostbusters II in 1989 and is probably the better of those two films with the word “ghost” in the title. That said, if you grew up around this time, you probably saw Ghostbusters II in theaters (I did!...

Kids with the illness often have a fever, rash, abdominal pain, or vomiting. The disease can be painful, feeling like “someone injected you with straight-up fire,” one teen who has recovered from it told the New York Times. And since the beginning of the pandemic, cases of MIS-C have gotten more severe. If your child has these symptoms, call your pediatrician immediately — because early treatment is key. For the rest of us, luckily, this illness seems rare....

RELATED: The Best New Music For Kids Most students in the U.S. don’t spend a lot of time in the practice room. In fact, American schools require no more than 45 minutes of music education a week, and most of that is just fumbling with plastic recorders. If you look 90 miles south, you’ll find a country that treats their music department the way Texas treats youth football. Yes, Cuba lacks an open Internet, free press, economic prosperity, freedom to travel, and has suffered under 60 years of despotism, but when it comes to music education, they kind of crush it....

In short, we still like men that take action. We want to raise boys to do just that. But the men who best model a productive sort of masculinity, who push themselves forward rather than pushing others down, aren’t necessarily engaged in the discussion. They are focused, instead, on modeling good behavior and pursuing excellence. To speak to most accomplished mountain climbers, race car drivers, and outdoorsmen about raising children is to hear a common refrain: Example is everything....

“Kids need that level of experience with those seemingly dangerous tools, in order to be responsible as teenagers or adults with those tools,” explains Tony Deis, co-founder of Oregon’s Trackers Earth, a “forest school” that helps kids learn about their world through hands-on experiences. “My experience has been, when you teach a child how to use tools, they respect the boundaries and responsibilities associated with them. It’s something innate. It gives them an incredible survival tool....

The boys were quiet for nearly the entire trip but eventually one of them started crying. As I began to comfort him, a woman across the aisle jumped up and tried to take him from me, announcing — with no warmth but lots of authority — “I’m a mother. I know how to do this.” Excuse me? There’s no denying that women disproportionately bear the burden of caregiving, made all the more evident during the pandemic, which has had an incredible impact on mothers....

The HU80KA uses lasers to project an image that’s four times as many pixels as a standard HD image. Its 2,500 lumens mean that you get a vivid picture even if you’re not projecting in a pitch-black environment. That clear, crisp picture can also be huge, as the HU80KA can project an image up to 150 inches diagonally. Considering that, on a standard flat screen, 80 inches is considered massive, we’re talking nearly doubling your screen size....

Very simply, the unemployment rate is the number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the total number of people in the labor force. The labor force is the total of people who are employed or unemployed and willing and able to work. Importantly, there are people who aren’t counted in the unemployment rate — many for good reason. Retired individuals aren’t counted, for instance. That makes sense as they are living of retirement earning and have no need to work....

Vasquez, who attends Two Bunch Palms primary school in California, needed hospital treatment after being brutalized but “felt it in his soul not to hit the kid back,” his mom explained. This is the second time bullies sent Vasquez to the hospital to get stitches. Vasquez’s level of restraint in the face of violence inspired by his admiration of the Star Wars movies caught the attention of Mark Hamill, the actor who played Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy and 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

Kevin Berling asked Gravity Diagnostics, the company he was working for, not to do anything to celebrate his birthday because he suffers from anxiety, which can lead to panic attacks. But the office manager forgot about his request and a surprise party was thrown for him at lunch, which caused him to have a panic attack. Berling quickly left and finished his lunch in his car before texting his manager that he was upset that the party was thrown despite his request....