The CDC guidelines make three major points about what you can do once you’re fully vaccinated, two weeks after your last dose. They are: If you’re exposed to COVID-19, you don’t have to quarantine or get tested unless you show symptoms.You can gather in small groups with other vaccinated people without masks or social distancing.You can meet up with unvaccinated people from one household at a time without masks or social distancing....
I’ve been hearing a lot more reports about plastic being bad for kids. I don’t get it, really. My parents used a ton of plastic stuff when I was growing up and I turned out fine. Isn’t this fake news or something? Am I really harming my 3-year-old by warming up their oatmeal in a plastic bowl? Alec, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * Hey, Alec. I truly appreciate your skepticism. Too many people just swallow the health stories they read and end up living stressed-out, panicked lives....
The obvious takeaway: Kids want, and need, better financial education. That survey, from USA Today and Bank of America, came out a couple of years ago. But since then, the United States has seen no growth in personal finance education, according to a new study from the Council for Economic Education. Only about one-third of states require students to take a personal finance class. And since 2016, no additional states have added personal finance to their K-12 standards or requirements....
Fisher-Price is selling a four-pack of Beatles Little People figures in the style of Yellow Submarine. To be clear, there isn’t an actual full-plastic Yellow Submarine (yet) but these Little People Beatles will easily interact with all the other Fisher-Price Little People toys. If you’re like me, you might have a toddler that loves the Little People school bus, and now, you can have slightly cooler passengers on that school bus....
Toilets are “among the daily but dangerous necessities of life,” according to the authors of the study. When you flush, the turbulent motion of the water careening around the bowl forces air up and out by nearly three feet — and poopy particles along with it. Depending on the type of toilet, 40%–60% of the particles are propelled above the seat. This motion can probably suspend the virus particles as aerosols for more than 30 minutes....
Stretching? If that’s not something you spend a lot of time doing, you’re far from alone. Just fitting in a short workout can be tough enough for most people, let alone finding an extra 15 minutes to tack on a stretching routine, which may be why less than 10% of the U.S. population stretches on a regular basis. Think of stretching as part of your workout, not in addition to it, suggests personal trainer Mathew Forzaglia, NFPT-CPT, founder of Forzag Fitness in New York City....
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an update to its Food Price Outlook for 2022. In the report, the agency outlined food prices increased 7.9 percent from 2021 to February 2022, which was “the largest 12-month advance since July 1981.” But even still, prices are expected to get even higher from there. The report was grim, stating that nearly every food is set to increase in price this year....
RELATED: The 50 Best Holiday Gifts Under $50 Now? Remote-controlled toys (and smartphone-controlled toys) ⏤ be they cars, trucks, boats, or drones ⏤ are fully interactive, voice-activated, and even out drag-race a million-dollar supercar. As in a real car. But which ones will your kids most enjoy ripping the wrapping paper off this season? Here are the best R/C car, drone, and monster truck holiday gifts this season. Justice League Ultimate Batmobile R/C Vehicle & Figure There’s a freaking camera in the cockpit of this badass Batmobile that syncs to a phone via Wi-Fi and gives you, er, your kid a real-time POV of the action from up to 65-feet away....
The name of the lyme vaccine was LYMErix and when it was approved by the FDA in 1998 it prevented the disease in 76 to 92 percent of those treated after three injections. When LYMErix initially hit the market, hundreds of thousands of people got the vaccine, even though it required three separate injections that cost $50 each. Despite being a tad pricey, inconvenient, and only approved for people over 15-years-old, LYMErix was still understood to be a largely successful drug....
“I use a hybrid of styles, as each couple is different,” Jenn Kennedy, a marriage and family therapist, told Fatherly. “Some need help with sex, while others need assistance communicating, deescalating, or grieving. I also use a heavy dose of humor to lighten things up and help build trust and perspective.” Emotionally-Focused Therapy, developed by psychologist Sue Johnson, is one of the most popular strategies among couples therapists. This approach involves helping both parties understand their attachment styles, along with a healthy dose of old-fashioned meditation....
Sometime in the early 1950s, a man named Sir Hugh Beaver argued with his friends about what the fastest game bird in Europe really was. At the time, Beaver was in charge of the Guinness Brewery (yep, the same one that makes beer) and was hanging out with his buddies at a shooting party. (A shooting party is what it sounds like: English dudes engaged in some Downton Abbey hunting action....
When my son was probably five years old, I had joined him for some play and suggested that we move off the bed and back to the machine we were constructing with his set of Legos. He wanted nothing to do with me. Then I suggested we wrestle. He was grumpy, remote, and though I was available he was not available to me or to our play. I sat with him and tried to talk but he told me to leave....
“Some clients do not want to do the work, which can be painful sometimes, and prefer to take medication to relieve depression or anxiety versus processing a chaotic childhood or unresolved traumas that may be the underpinnings of those conditions,” psychologist Nancy Irwin, Psy.D., explains. “Focusing on the speed of getting better can actually elongate the process of psychological health.” Process is the key word. Talk therapy was introduced by Sigmund Freud in the 19th century has since been modified and shaped by the work of scholars like Alfred Adler and Carl Jung, who mostly focused on cognitive-behavioral approaches, which have been collectively referred to as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) since the 1970s....
Thankfully, Fidelity Investments teamed up with CNBC to give people an idea of how much the average American has saved in their 401(k) by age, which will hopefully give you an idea of where you are at in terms of retirement savings. According to Fidelity’s findings, by the fourth quarter of 2020, the average person in their 20s had $15,000 saved in their 401(k), with that number then jumping to $50,800 for Americans in their 30s....
Bad writing aside, the answer, of course, depends on your vehicle, whether you have a roof rack or carrier, and, from a legal standpoint, what the laws are in your state, or those states you’re driving through. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 51,000 crashes, 10,000 injuries, and 440 known fatalities in 2010 as a result of debris flying off cars. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety turned up similar findings in a 2016 study, noting that “about two-thirds of debris-related crashes are the result of items falling from a vehicle due to improper maintenance and unsecured loads....
Professors Keith Robinson and Angel L. Harris, authors of The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement With Children’s Education, suggest that involvement as parents generally understand it — helping with homework, attending PTA meetings, volunteering in the classroom, regular communication with teachers — do not have a universally positive correlation with improved academic outcomes for their kids. In fact, according to Robinson and Harris’s meta-analysis of longitudinal studies, in many cases, more parental involvement is associated with lower student performance....
“To put it bluntly, I was a pretty fat fuck when my son was born. Other parents told me how much kids run around, but I had no idea it would be as challenging as it was at my weight. I was pushing 300 lbs., tired, achy, and having trouble breathing. My son, on the other hand, only grew faster and more active. So many times, my son would want to go outside to play, or even just run around the house, and I couldn’t keep up....
The package provides forgiveness of up to $10,000 for borrowers with Federal Direct Loans and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. Single borrowers who earn $125,000 or more and households that earn $250,000 or more per year are not eligible for loan forgiveness. This cancelation will wipe out some debt for 43 million people. Twenty million of those people will have their debt completely canceled. For many student loan advocates, this is a promising first step toward righting a financial wrong that has been crushing working families for decades....
Everyone deserves to feel sexually satisfied, and for those in relationships, we know sexual satisfaction is interlinked with overall relationship satisfaction. So if this is something that’s on your mind, know that it is worth bringing it up to your partner. There are also ways to approach this conversation—and the mutual efforts that need to come after it—with a sense of camaraderie, care, and curiosity. Here are a few tips to keep in mind if you want to ask for more sex....
All to say, being a good lover is about more than just learning a few more bedroom techniques. That stuff can help, but the truth is that being a better lover starts before you ever make it to bed. At core, it’s about understanding your partner in a way that goes deep. And from that place of deep knowing comes moments of real, raw connection — and, subsequently, truly electric sex....
