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Birds can be pretty amazing companions, many birds live a lot longer than dogs, giving you a buddy for life depending on when you buy one. Some parrots can live up to 50 years, while the longest living cockatoo lived to be 82-years-old, which is why if you get one of these amazing talking feathered […]
Once again the youngins are flabbergasting the older generations with their disregard of things they deem unnecessary. There’s always something that gets dropped or altered generation to generation. We learn better ways or technology makes certain things obsolete. But it doesn’t matter how far we’ve come, our beds still need sheets to cover the mattress. […]
We know too much screen time is not good for us. We also know that younger folks are particularly susceptible to screen addiction. What we don’t fully know is how to effectively help teens and tweens manage the habit, especially when screens are such an everyday part of life. However, psychiatrist, author and dad of […]
Anna Trupiano is a first-grade teacher at a school that serves deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students from birth through eighth grade. In addition to teaching the usual subjects, Trupiano is charged with helping her students thrive in a society that doesn’t do enough to cater to the needs of the hard-of-hearing. A six-year-old child farted […]
A lot of parents are tired of being told how technology is screwing up their kids. Moms and dads of the digital age are well aware of the growing competition for their children’s attention, and they’re bombarded at each turn of the page or click of the mouse with both cutting-edge ideas and newfound worries […]
If you just got married, chances are lots of people think they know what your life is like. These people are totally well-meaning! And also, mostly wrong. Being married isn’t exactly like it used to be. Which is great, as there are so many different, amazing ways to be newlyweds than ever before. But it’s […]
Around 1 a.m. on April 24, semi-truck drivers in the Oak Park area of Michigan received a distress call from area police: An unidentified man was standing on the edge of a local bridge, apparently ready to jump onto the freeway below. Those drivers then did something amazing. They raced to the scene to help […]
Fear of flying—aerophobia, in technical terms—is an extremely common phobia, affecting around 25 million adults in the U.S. alone. Some people grit their teeth and white-knuckle their way through their fear, while others find themselves unable to get on an airplane at all because of it. Such a fear is understandable, really. Hurtling through the […]
Language is a fascinating thing to explore. Where words come from, how things are named, the way sayings and slang are constantly being invented—it’s all great fun to plunge into. But sometimes a deep dive into words and language reveals missed opportunities as we contemplate what a thing should be called instead of what it […]