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MadameNoire

If your mom friend agrees to an adult-only girls’ night, you better not flake on her.

10 Ways Friendships Change When You’re The Only One Without Kids

The US Sun

GETTING married can be both one of the most exciting and one of the most stressful periods of anyone's life. And after months, or sometimes years, of planning it's no surprise that couples struggle to sleep as the big day draws near. As a bride, you face an immense amount...

I’m a sleep expert – my five tips for brides to get the best sleep before their wedding

HuffPost

Children are paying attention to more than parents and caregivers might think.

6 Things Kids Totally Notice Without Adults Realizing It

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Dontae

Do you ever feel like you’re just going through the motions, living each day on autopilot? You wake up, do your usual chores, and go to bed without feeling any joy or satisfaction. It’s like you’re just existing, not truly living.

9 Things People With "Wounded" Souls Do Without Even Noticing

Bad behavior can occur in children of all ages for various reasons. However, it's important to nip bad behaviors in the bud and practice positive discipline strategies while kids are still young to prevent behavior from getting worse. If your child is acting out in surly ways, it's important to...

7 Examples of Bad Behavior Parents Should Correct ASAP

Americans tend to think that our culture is the default. But plenty of aspects of our culture are unique to the United States or at the very least totally weird to almost every other country. Someone asked the people of Reddit to share the things that are considered totally normal in the U.S. that are seen as extremely bizarre in other places. If you are American, some of these might shock you.

10 things Americans think are normal that are so weird to the rest of the world

Parade

Psychologists also share middle-child stereotypes that it's time to retire.

13 Things Psychologists Are Begging Parents and Grandparents To Stop Saying to a Middle Child

Fatherly

While a newborn is rightly billed as a bundle of joy, two things can be true simultaneously: For many couples, a new baby is also a powder keg for conflict, as they are forced to evaluate and negotiate how their latest addition will affect life moving forward. Between sleep deprivation,...

The 10 Fights You'll Have After Baby

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but putting your cart back in the cart corral is basic human decency. We live in a society, and as such, there are certain unspoken rules we have to follow to maintain order and make everyone’s lives easier. If you...

12 Things People Can’t Help But Secretly Judge Others For

The longer a relationship goes on, the easier it is to neglect—not intentionally, but just because you fall into a daily routine with your partner and life gets busy. Navigating the minutiae of life together isn’t a bad thing, it just means the little things can get in the way of spending quality time together. So, to help prioritize one another, nurture the relationship, and keep the spark alive, couples are turning to the 2-2-2 rule. Whether you and your partner are suffering from the dreaded roommate syndrome or you’re just looking to nurture your relationship (new or old!) in new ways, look no further.

The Happiest Couples Swear By the 2-2-2 Rule

Moms Who Think

When babies are born, they naturally have no concept of manners. This means the responsibility of showing the polite way […]

Everyday Manners You Should Be Teaching Your Kids

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Herbie J Pilato

In the mid-1970s, Good Timesmade a star of actor/comedian Jimmy 'JJ'/'Dynomite' Walker. However, behind the scenes, the tension between the stars was relatively challenging. According to what Jimmie Walker once relayed, most of the show's cast rarely had any interaction behind the camera. Walker didn't recall having any conversations with actress Esther Rolle, who played his TV mother, Florida Evans, or actor John Amos, who played James Evans, his TV mother.

Actor/Comedian Jimmie "JJ" Walker Behind the Scenes of TV's 'Good Times' in the 1970s

New York Post

After 13 years of marriage, Bethany Meola acknowledges she and her husband can get mired in the midlife chaos that comes with navigating careers and raising three children.

That’s why the six-second kiss felt so good.

A daily intimacy exercise pioneered by couples therapists and clinical psychologists John and Julie Gottman, the six-second kiss is what it sounds like — taking a few moments out of each day to connect physically with your partner.



“It’s kind of a funny thing to put on the to-do list,” said Meola, who first learned of the Gottmans’ work while studying for a theology master’s degree focused...

Pucker up: Couples therapist reveals 6-second daily ritual that could save your relationship

Upworthy

There are some people who live under the illusion that everything they say is deeply interesting and have no problem wasting your time by rambling on and on without a sign of stopping. They’re the relative, neighbor or co-worker who can’t take a hint that the conversation is over.Of all these people, the co-worker who can’t stop talking may be the most challenging because you see them every day in a professional setting that requires politeness.There are many reasons that some people talk excessively. Therapist F. Diane Barth writes in Psychology Today that some people talk excessively because they don’t have the ability to process complex auditory signals, so they ramble on without recognizing the subtle cues others are sending. It may also be a case of someone who thinks they’re the most interesting person in the conversation.

How do you end a conversation with someone who won't stop talking? 19 people share their tricks.

If we looked 60 years into the past, there are a lot of things that were accepted as “normal” that today most people find abhorrent. For example, people used to smoke cigarettes everywhere. They’d light up in hospitals, schools and even churches.People also used to litter like crazy. It’s socially unacceptable now, but if you lived in the ’70s and finished your meal at McDonald’s, you’d chuck your empty styrofoam container (remember those?) and soda cup right out of the window of your car and onto the street.

People are sharing the weirdest things we accept as 'normal’ and it has people questioning reality

The Italian word bombolotto doesn’t have a precise English translation. It means doll, toy baby, puppet, fat baby, happy baby, and all those things at once in a bouncy, onomatopoetic sort of way. It’s what the women on the street call out when they see something cherubic that must be pinched and clucked at until it gives up a giggle. It’s what the shopkeeper in the Spanish Quarter called my son before she indelicately scooped him out of my lap and paraded him into a ceramics store to meet a friend and, presumably, break her mugs.

Babies Aren’t Meant For Putting Down

Insider

Sometimes I feel embarrassed to admit I'm so close to my mom. She has been my constant cheerleader.

My mom is my best friend. Some people think it's weird, but she's supported me more than anyone else.

Sean Kernan

I was teased by multiple kids throughout my childhood.David was my peaknemesis, a never-ending source of pain, who repeatedly shoved me and randomly punched me in the stomach at will. The physical pain wasn’t the only problem. It was the constant feeling of powerlessness and isolation that hurt more.

I Bumped Into My Childhood Bully 10 Years Later

Author Helene Sula  shares her journey to an unconventional life abroad, focusing on travel blogging and living child-free.

I thought I wanted kids, but moving to Europe with my husband changed my mind

Business Insider

"For Love & Money" answers your relationship and money questions. This week, a parent has to decide how much money to leave to two children.

I'm updating my will. Should I leave money to a child who doesn't need it and doesn't like me?

NewsBreak

How To Get Through The Day When You're Not Sleeping At Night

My newborn son did not sleep for longer than an hour at a time. Ever. This is something I tell people and they chuckle and shake...

How To Get Through The Day When You're Not Sleeping At Night

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