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That situation stinks, and it happens far too often. But lawmakers in Portugal recently alleviated people from the burden of the after-work email – by outright banning it, The New York Times reports. According to the Times, other than in emergency scenarios, employers who contact their employees during their daily time off will face fines. The law will also shift some of the costs of electricity and internet bills for remote workers onto companies and universally approves remote work for parents of younger kids, the paper reports....

What are the Benefits of Prenatal Yoga? Even those who’ve never stepped foot on a yoga mat can do prenatal yoga, says certified yoga instructor and prenatal yoga coach Erica Rodefer Winters. Not only is prenatal yoga low-key by design, the benefits for a woman growing a human life are multitudinous — it’s a pretty good investment. “The poses themselves can help with a lot of aches and pains, like sciatica and carpal tunnel, that pregnant women have,” Winters explains....

At the same time, while smart shopping is a good idea, there’s no need to hoard supplies. And even if, or when, we have a vaccine, these are all products parents should have on hand because if there’s anything we’ve learned, it’s that it’s always smart to expect the very unexpected. Hand soap Repeat after us: I will wash my hands regularly. Regular, lengthy hand washing (the CDC recommends washing for at least 20 seconds with soap and water, or twice the length of the happy birthday song) is, hands-down, the best way to prevent the virus from spreading....

In response to a question that mentioned, accurately, that many Democrats already believe that the president can cancel up to $50,000 in student debt, Klain revealed that President Biden has asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to look into the matter and issue a memo on the president’s legal authority to do so. “He hasn’t made a decision on that either way. In fact, he hasn’t yet gotten the memos that he needs to start to focus on that decision,” Klain said....

Like a lot of fathers and husbands, Obama’s work was messing up his relationship with his wife and kids. But, also like a lot of fathers and husbands, it’s not like Obama was in a position to quit his job to do anything about it. So, what was the solution? We don’t know the answer from this small excerpt, but the thing that is immediately striking is clear: Obama didn’t have to admit that being a workaholic put stress on his marriage....

Thankfully, Disney+ has heard you, and as such, decided to drop a bunch of America’s Funniest Home Videos on to Disney+. After all, there’s only so much television, and finding family-friendly television that also isn’t horrifically annoying (we’re looking at you, Caillou and Paw Patrol) is often a tall order. But, luckily, Disney stepped in and dropped something surprising on their eponymous streaming platform: A total of nine seasons of America’s Funniest Home Videos, which Fatherly considers one of the best pieces of family programming still around....

Cohasset Punch “This is a riff on a cocktail from the 1800’s that originated in Chicago. No one knows the exact recipe, but it was something like a rum Manhattan mixed with canned peaches and lemon juice,’ says Adam Peabody, Head of Mixology at LH Rooftop in downtown Chicago. “This recipe brings a modern approach to the drink with Plantation Pineapple Rum and the addition of sparkling wine.” Ingredients (Makes 8-10 Servings):...

Here’s the thing about loss: It doesn’t get any less excruciating with the passage of time. While to his fans, Cornell’s death four years ago is tragic, it’s something else entirely to his widow Vicky and kids Toni, Lily, and Christopher. It’s the equivalent of emotional sepsis, a gaping hole where once they had a dad who brought his little kids out on stage (clad in sound-protective headphones) to see him playfully croon Hunger Strike....

I hesitate, not because I don’t know the answer, but because it’s not a question I get asked a lot. Certainly not in a pub with a wide selection of craft brews with varying degrees of hoppiness. When people offer me an alcoholic beverage, it rarely (okay never) comes with the caveat, “Specifically something that’s gonna make you get all weepy about your old man.” It’s 8:30 in the morning on St....

As part of its National Rent Income Report, Zumper looks at more than one million active listings across the country to calculate the median asking rent for the most populated cities. Doing so gives a “comprehensive view of the current state of the market,” and their latest report highlights just how hard people have been hit by skyrocketing rent prices. Just how bad is the rent crisis? The median national rental cost for a one-bedroom apartment rose 11....

For longtime Star Wars fans, Andor will feel jarringly different, and in its three-episode premiere — which drops on Disney+ on Wednesday, September 21 — the show has very little of what would be called nostalgia or fan service. To put it another way, this is a great show to watch with your partner, especially if they don’t care about Star Wars. If you enjoyed The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Star Wars fan, there’s a chance you’ll like Andor too, simply because the visual aesthetics are similar....

According to CNN, Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian informed via memo of the new policy. In the memo, Nejatian explained that any meeting involving three or more people would automatically be removed from the schedule, and there would be a “two-week cooling off period” before considering adding meetings back to the calendar. In addition, Shopify announced large meetings with 50 or more people would only be able to be scheduled during a a six-hour window on Thursdays, and Wednesdays would be marked as meeting-free, per CNN....

I started at the next gig as the remote guy, and I had direct reports, which confused them. How could I be in charge of them and not be in the office? Worse, I was dealing with exactly the same concerns as my colleagues; I was as self-conscious about my status as a teenager with too-long limbs at the freshman dance. What’s different today, says Dr. Alan Castel, a professor of psychology at UCLA and the author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging, and a specialist in how men relate to work, is that COVID forced a huge number of us to suddenly shift to toiling at home....

The Connecticut dad of one lost his job just before his wife gave birth. The timing of his job loss made staying home with his newborn an easy decision to make. But after months passed, it increasingly seemed like a difficult one to deal with. As bills and financial gripes piled up, he figured rejoining the workforce would not only help his family’s finances but also its emotional health. So, Rob aggressively pursued, and quickly found, a job....

Space tourism startup World View is offering ordinary people like you (unless Buzz Aldrin is reading this, in which case, big fan!) the opportunity to head to space on the World View Explorer, a fully autonomous spacecraft with pre-determined trajectories, for only $50,000. Of course, “only” is a relative term here because that number is much cheaper than the projected prices that we have seen from other participants in the privatized space race....

“Well-being was lower for mothers and fathers who violated gendered expectations about the division of paid labor, and higher for parents who conformed to these expectations,” said coauthor on the study Karen Kramer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in a press statement. “We observed a statistically significant and substantial difference in depressive symptoms between men and women in our study.” Even as educational and career opportunities for women have increased, society has been slow to catch up....

In response to the need many Americans are still facing, several state governments have stepped up to the plate and are pledging stimulus funds to residents. Though not all the proposals are official yet, here are the 11 states who have stimulus checks or tax relief on the docket for 2022. California Thanks to two years of budget surplus, California residents might have some relief from skyrocketing gas prices over the summer....

When Warren launched her campaign in Massachusetts over a year ago, she told a story familiar to many working parents, particularly single ones. When Warren moved to Houston to attend law school, she struggled to find child care for her youngest. The only place she could find that worked, in her words, was a care center that required her daughter to be reliably potty trained. She wasn’t. Warren said she was, however, and potty trained her toddler in five days....

The CEO announced in a public statement that they have made changes to all stores across the country. “We’ve always taken great pride in our clean and well-run stores, and we know this is more important than ever right now,” Cornell says in the press release. “On top of our daily cleaning procedures, we’re adding hours to each store’s payroll to make our routines even more rigorous. This means more time will be spent cleaning our stores, including cleaning surfaces like check lanes and touchscreens at least every 30 minutes....