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If You Want Better Health, Consume Good Fats

Over time, fat has been ostracized, shamed and demonized. However, not all fat deserves this bad rap... ...control your weight and live your healthiest life... Nuts:...people who consume nuts liv...

The Unexpected Gift of Pokémon Go

If you're on the fence about jumping in on the biggest craze of the summer, Pokemon GO, consider the benefits it has had for one mom and her autistic son.

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5 Ways to Calm Your Anxious Kid Before Traveling

For kids who worry, even a fun vacation can be a source of stress. Here are a handful of ways you can ease the what-if's.

How to be the Best Grandma (and Drive Your Adult Kids Crazy)

My mom is a grandma on steroids, blinded by adoration, paranoia, and utter subjectivity when it comes to the objects of her perfection – I meant, affection.

What's More Important: How Food Looks? Or How It Tastes?

Around 60 million tons of produce, worth about $160 billion, is wasted, ...—a third of all foodstuffs, though experts and farmers tell the Guardian the real figure is closer to half of all foodstuf...

The First Ghostbuster Was a Woman

Given the controversy over Paul Feig’s decision to remake Ghostbusters with an all-woman cast, one might be fooled into thinking that female ghostbusters are a shocking... The original lady ghostb...

Swift Playgrounds by Apple Will Help Kids Learn to Code

The new Swift Playgrounds app for iPad is the next step on Apple's path towards a new breed of computer programming. Due to arrive in the App Store this fall, the app is an educational tool. Throu...

Why Some Stay-at-Home Dads are Depressed

In the past two decades or so, the number of stay-at-home dads has risen—from just over 1 million in 1989 to 2 million in 2012, according to the Pew Research Center. We've also become more visible ...

7 Powerful Life Lessons Girls Can Learn From Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is not only the Greatest of All Time, but also the perfect role model for a strong, capable, and change making girl.

The Battle of the Bottle

Getting this kid to give up the bottle is going to be a little like Custer's Last Stand with a side of spilled milk.

Why Scientists Feel Dinosaurs Did NOT Roar

Do you hear that sound? It’s 65 million years ago and there’s a dinosaur calling out through the wilds. But it’s not a roar. Instead new research says that sound would probably be better described ...

What Has Happened to Journalism and The Truth in A Digital Age

Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism ....

7 Lessons From a One-Year-Old on How to be a Better Human

Maybe it only takes one year to figure out what life is all about. The trick is to keep those lessons with you.

When Fear is More Limiting Than a Wheelchair

Unless he's given the space to try, my son will learn to be handicapped by his mind, not his body. And that's not the life I want him to have.

10 Summer Camps Parents Really Need Right About Now

Oh, summer, how we love you! Blue skies, long days, fireflies, swimming, s'mores. And, of course, deliriously happy kids! Well, mostly happy kids. Um. Sort of happy kids. Ok fine. Kinda bratty ki...

How to Prepare an Older Sibling for Bringing Home a New Baby

How do you gently tell your only kid that it's time to make room for a new baby? Just like this.

11 Personal Items You're Going to Want Postpartum That No One Seems to Mention

Do your postpartum self a favor and stock up on these must-haves now.

1 Reason Not to Play With Your Zipper Near a wedge-tailed Eagle

The youngster, said to be between six and eight, had been fiddling with the zipper of his jacket when the bird tried to pick him up "like a small animal" "For some reason the wedge-tailed Eagle di...

Camps say Care Packages are way out of Control

Lauren and Mark Bernstein, owners and directors of Camp Walden New York, were early adopters. When they bought the camp, located in Diamond Point, N.Y., 12 years ago, a no-package policy felt good ...

Parents Fear Pokemon is bad for Kids.

In 1999, when the first Pokémon movie was released in the U.S., TIME featured the fad in a cover story. And, though the magazine took pains to explain the craze to curious readers unfamiliar with t...

Family Support Helpful With Loved Ones With Diabetes Study Says

Better outcomes may be possible if family members receive support to help their loved ones with diabetes, according to the DAWN2 study, with analysis led by a Penn State College of Medicine researc...

Why We Talk About Consent With our Toddlers

It's never too early to teach kids about ownership of their bodies and how to respect the bodies of others. In fact, the sooner, the better.

When 'Stay-at-Home Mom' is a Dream Too Small

Staying home to raise a family is a noble job. But pursuing dreams and creative endeavors can't always take a back seat.

The Gift of No Mirrors: On Camping With My Daughters

Looking in the mirror, we search for flaws. Seek out our beauty and often, in our own minds come up short. Nature offers a welcome reprieve.