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If you have school-age kids, you may have heard of the “summer slide,” a phenomenon in which students lose some of the learning they achieved in the previous school year over the summer break. The good news is that the summer slide is often overstated. In fact, evidence is decidedly mixed on whether it really exists, and education researchers say that summer is an opportunity. Whether or not kids lose learning during the summer, they very rarely gain it—but the hot days out of school can be a golden window for kids who…

Will Smith couldn't resist cracking a joke at his son Jaden Smith's expense as he celebrated his 25th birthday. The actor and musician took to Instagram to wish Jaden a happy birthday but couldn't help but playfully tease him about not having any kids yet. Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith. "Happy Birthday, J-Diggy. It's crazy that you're 25?!?! When I was 25 I had a 2 yr. old," Will wrote in his Instagram post. "I'm just sayin'... Wha's up? What you doin' over there?" Will's Parenting JourneyWill Smith…

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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Soon after a baby is born, it’s getting more common these days for the father or non-birthing parent to be encouraged to put the newborn directly on their chest. This skin-to-skin contact is often termed “kangaroo care,” as it mimics the way kangaroos provide warmth and security to babies. Mothers have been encouraged to give kangaroo care for decades now and many do so instinctively after giving…

French director Mia Hansen-Løve has a knack for making unimpeachably delicate films about emotionally clobbering rites of passage. She has navigated death, divorce and traumatic adolescence with a softness that never quite turns to mush. Her most recent film, One Fine Morning – now available to stream on Mubi – takes the same approach to that strangest and most tender of life reversals, when children become their parents’ carers. Following a Parisian single mother (a never-better Léa Seydoux) as she reckons with the…

One of ChatGPT's greatest features is that it will do (mostly) what you tell it to do. I love using it to answer my kids' hard questions -- such as simple words they want explained, but you suddenly blank on how to define them. ChatGPT has helped me answer things like 'what is shame?' and 'what are values?', without me trying miserably to fumble for an answer. Also: ChatGPT vs. Bing AI: Which AI chatbot is better for you?The key to success is to ask ChatGPT to answer your question like it's chatting with a young kid. For…

Anxious parents are filling out job applications, appearing at interviews and mediating workplace conflicts; ‘my mom doesn’t think it’s a good idea’ Anxious parents are filling out job applications, appearing at interviews and mediating workplace conflicts; ‘my mom doesn’t think it’s a good idea’ FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

Anna McCleary had her daughter in October 2019. McCleary, who works at a law firm in Chicago, had just returned from her maternity leave in early 2020 when the COVID pandemic hit. She and her husband found themselves working from home without access to day care or other help. “We were just thrown into the middle of this sort of nightmare scenario of all of your responsibilities, with none of the safety net that you expect when you have a kid,” McCleary says. She and her husband had always planned on having two children,…

In February, while going to the library to check out a manga comic one of my students recommended, I (Thomas Franich) grabbed a copy (as I always do) of Scientific American and read the February editorial “Let Teenagers Sleep.” The editors advocated for delaying school start times based on overwhelming evidence that teens are biologically driven to go to bed later and wake up later than other age groups. The editors pushed for that change because later start times were linked to students’ well-being and possible…

Kim Kardashian has been in the news for her style, fashion, and brands that she endorses. Not even the whole Kardashian and Jenner group has put out their lives in front of people through their shows Keeping with the Kardashians and the spinoff The Kardashians. But lately, the family has kept it low. Kim, who is a known model, fashion icon, and mother of four kids, has been candid this time about her past relationships. Kim Kardashian spoke on a podcast episode of “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” about parenthood and the…