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Terms You Should Think Twice About Before Putting Up Your House Listing

17.12.2020 Kids Health

Because of the pandemic, the 2020 housing market progressed differently than many had predicted. Experts anticipated interest rates would remain low, thereby encouraging potential buyers to commit. However, the dire financial straights many families have found themselves in — along with stay-at-home orders and other COVID-related deterrents to traveling, touring homes, and relocating — have brought a significant decrease to home […]

No Kissing the Baby, Please: Why Smooching Infants Is More Dangerous Than You Think

28.01.2020 Kids Health

A storm is raging on the parenting site Mom Confessions over a Jan. 20 post by an angry mother on the brink of divorce: “This is an open letter to my MIL who I am absolutely furious with and her selfish, narcissistic attitude…how hard is it to understand the words that I speak when I say Don’t kiss the baby, […]

Shawn Johnson Dances With Baby, Guesses Mom Shamers Will Think It's 'Very Wrong'

24.12.2019 Kids Health

We love Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson for about a million reasons. Well, make that a million and one. On Friday, Dec. 20, Johnson danced and twirled with her newborn daughter, Drew (one month old) in an Instagram video. And having already been mom-shamed by trolls who insisted Drew had been under-dressed indoors, Johnson preemptively clapped back at any potential […]

Woman Says She 'Can’t Think of Doing Anything Sexual Without Cringing' After Boyfriend Shames Her

22.05.2019 Family Health

In a now-deleted Reddit post in r/relationships, an 18-year-old woman asked for advice on how to get her sexual confidence back after her boyfriend shamed her for her past sexual experiences. The Original Poster (or OP, as Redditors say) explained that prior to meeting her boyfriend, she had been “very sexually active” and felt confident in bed. At the start […]

The Worst Part of Infertility Isn't What You Think

25.04.2019 Kids Health

The other day, in the grocery store, looking at all of the food I had just put on the belt for the cashier to ring up, I smiled to myself. Fruit roll-ups, juice boxes and individually-sized bags of popcorn were things that I never thought I’d get the chance to buy. Because for a long time, it looked like I […]

‘Walk and think’ test could be key to concussion care

28.06.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Can you spell words backwards while you’re walking? Successfully performing that simple test of cognition could help decide whether a concussed athlete is safe to return to play, new research shows. If the athlete can’t simultaneously walk and think in this way, they may not be fully recovered from a concussion and could be at risk for another injury if […]