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Thirty-five years later, the role hasn’t lost its luster. “I would love to play Joan now. What is Joan doing? I don’t think she’d still be a teacher at all. Definitely not a kindergarten teacher. And if she is a teacher, she would be teaching at Smith,” says Perkins. “I don’t think she would have had the patience to stick with kindergartners. Oh, I loved her. And I love the fact that Ed Zwick, our director, just let me do whatever I wanted with it....

We know how genetics work and understand it’s not unusual to see kiddo who looks like their parent. But Given Elon’s unique personality, it can be hard to imagine what he might have been like as a child. Recently, the Tesla CEO shared a photo of himself and X, born in May 2020. “Thanksgiving last year after watching one too many episodes of Vikings,” Elon wrote, sharing a pic of him kneeling behind X and holding his hand....

Disguised to look like a mini Tesla charging station, this dock basically holds the cable that charges your smartphone. Using it is a simple and silent act you can casually perform during a video call to convey your moral (and fiscal) superiority — for less than $25. Once assembled around your thunderbolt cable, yank the business end of that cord down and slip it into your phone. When you’re done charging, plug the cable’s end into the port — exactly as you’d do when juicing up your Tesla at a charging station....

The truth is children who get antibiotics when they don’t need them increase the rates of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in the environment, endangering the lives of people with compromised immune systems (older people, sick people, pregnant women) and ultimately everyone else. It is crucial for parents to know when to ask for antibiotics and when to resist the urge. So, take a deep breath and learn a bit more about when — and when not — to ask your pediatrician for antibiotics....

“My daughter has no voice. She was murdered last week, shot nine times on the third floor,” Pollack said. “This shouldn’t happen. We go to the airport, I can’t get on the plane with a bottle of water, but we leave some animal to walk into a classroom and shoot our children.” Pollack lambasted the government for allowing so many school shootings while essentially doing nothing to prevent them. “One school shooting, and we all should’ve fixed it....

Chieh Huang, CEO of online wholesaler Boxed.com, admits he wasn’t happy the day he paid a surprise visit to his company’s Atlanta fulfillment center. It was just before one o’clock in the afternoon and a handful of cars sat in the parking lot. “I was thinking, ‘People are taking long lunches—this is why I show up unannounced,’” he recalls. Inside the warehouse, though, he saw a full shift of workers busy packing up boxes for shipments....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Parenting in Other Countries Being that this is the first one, you might be looking for guidance. Sure, you could just call it good by making ‘em a smash cake and inviting the grandparents over to sing the birthday song (it’s not like your kid is going to remember). Or you could do away with the typical Western fete and find year one b-day inspiration from your fellow parents around the globe....

RELATED: A New Genetic Test Claims to Predict an Unborn Baby’s Hair Color and Taste in Food Autosomal recessive inherited disorders, another name for passed down genetic illnesses, are something that doctors seek out so that expectant parents can decide if the information changes their willingness (or ability) to bring their baby into the world. Also, having the information in advance that, say, the baby has a 25 percent chance of developing Cystic fibrosis, allows doctors to test for it as part of the baby’s newborn screening, and closely monitor it in the first few months of life, even before symptoms arise....

The original FastPass had been in place for 22-years, was complimentary, and was, well, great. For parents, it helped them plan out their Disney day — parents could make ride reservations and reservations to other attractions and bypass lines for free so they didn’t have to wait as long. After Disney ditched FastPass, they replaced it with Genie+, a similar experience to FastPass and an app, except it costs more money....

Still, dinner is a sacred — if frantic— ritual in the Duran household. “I cook dinner every single night…and it’s sometimes a challenge to find something that everyone likes,” he says. “Yes, sometimes I feel like a short-order-cook, but the challenge is to find the same meals that we all enjoy together.” “The Dad Special” is a celebration of food, family, and fathers who cook. Featuring chefs, celebrities, and kitchen crazy dads, this collection highlights meals — from family secrets to quick kid delights — meant to honor time spent at the table....

Car accidents remain the second leading cause of death for children and adolescents, followed by drug overdoses and poisonings, which were grouped together in the dataset. Overdoses and poisonings increased by a staggering 83.6% from 2019 to 2020. There is speculation that the dramatic increase in firearm violence and overdoses/poisonings during this timeframe is related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The crossing of these trend lines [gun violence and car accidents] demonstrates how a concerted approach to injury prevention can reduce injuries and deaths — and, conversely, how a public health problem can be exacerbated in the absence of such attention,” wrote lead author, Jason Goldstick Ph....

Right now, the thinking is that Harrison Ford will start playing Ross in Captain America: New World Order, the fourth “Captain America” film overall, but, the first one starring Anthony Mackie as the “new” Cap, following the events of The Falcon and the Winter Solider. But who is Ross, anyway? Did you forget? Thaddeus E. “Thunderbolt” Ross, Explained Thaddeus E. “Thunderbolt” Ross made his comics debut in the very same 1962 comic book issue of The Incredible Hulk where Bruce Banner first appeared, so he’s been around since the beginning of this whole Hulk thing....

When does season 2 of The Mandalorian premiere? New episodes of The Mandalorian will start streaming on Friday, October 30. As you might remember, the first episode of the first season debuted the day that Disney+ launched, a Tuesday, but with one exception the others debuted weekly on Fridays. That the release date is a Friday suggests that Disney+ might be pursuing a similar strategy this season and that you can plan your Fridays around Mando....

A Reddit user u/1ew looked at data from the National Center for Education Statistics compiled between 2017 and 2018 and looked at the average high school start times from around the country. Then, taking that information, u/1ew put it into an easy-to-read map form. And what we see is school starts way earlier than we thought in most states, and much earlier than what is actually healthy for teens. The map shows that students in Louisiana have the earliest school start time of 7:30 a....

As more and more people get vaccinated every day, Americans are able to start doing all of the things they missed during quarantine, including going to theme parks. And Universal’s Islands of Adventure got parkgoers plenty excited by opening a brand new Jurassic World-themed roller coaster called the VelociCoaster. The ride was an immediate hit with fans, as the length to wait in line on VelociCoaster’s opening day got up to 180 minutes but according to those who rode it, the wait was totally worth it....

“Holiday Heart Syndrome is the development of atrial fibrillation with heavy drinking in a person without a history of heart disease,” says Dr. Muhammad Afzal, an electrophysiologist and assistant professor of internal medicine at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. “There is a dose-response relationship with the development of atrial fibrillation with alcohol consumption.” The term Holiday Heart Syndrome was coined in 1978 by cardiologist Philip Ettinger, who documented a glut of patients admitted for potential arrhythmias that increase stroke risk after binge drinking at holiday parties....

For a decade prior to the release of my novel — about a post-apocalyptic mutual aid society — I’d spent countless hours researching doomsday prepping and communal living. After the book was published, I realized I didn’t actually know how to do any of the practical things I’d so painstakingly described. Far from self-sufficient, I watched my 5-year-old son’s tinkering skills surpass my own. Determined to overreact, I decided to transform my family’s 3....

There is more stress because there is less sleep and less time and less money, but also because babies come — and no one ever mentions this — with a generous side of self-doubt (“What if I’m a terrible father?”). When the sense of self is disrupted, everything else seems to be as well. What follows is a tough experience psychologically. Being a new dad is great, but it’s also really hard....

The big two questions parents need to ask before they tell a kid to keep a secret: Is it a fun secret? Is it no big deal if the kid breaks his or her silence? If the answer to both is “yes,” you’re likely in the clear and it’s just a matter of approach. “Parents can try to get kids under age seven or so to keep secrets about parties and presents, but do not expect the child will keep it quiet and do not get mad at them if they don’t keep it quiet,” says Dr....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Parenting in Other Countries China: Blame ‘Em For Big Boned Children In China, it’s common for 3 generations to all live under the same roof, and grandparents are the primary caregivers. That might sound rough, but kids in China are actually up against something even worse than 2 times the Tiger Moms and Dads. A recent study found that Chinese grandparents are contributing to the country’s obesity pandemic by overfeeding their grandkids and letting them skip household chores....