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Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My wife is a Type-A, intense personality. She tends to have control issues; if she is not the one booking the tickets or making the reservations, she stresses that it is not done, or not done correctly. I love her and have learned to just let her do certain things because happy wife equals happy life, and it is not worth getting offended that she thinks I won’t find the best airline and hotel deals for our beach vacation. Since…
One of the best decisions I ever made as a parent was to ignore the parenting advice of the “experts.” When I first became a mother, I was overwhelmed by so many books and theories. Instead, I decided to skip the whole thing. Even now, after giving birth to five children, I have no regrets. But now even I can’t escape bad parenting advice. It hits me on social media in the form of what has become loosely known as “TikTok parenting.” As if TikTok wasn’t insidious enough, TikTok and other social media platforms are increasingly becoming a source of…
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, I am having a hard time accepting the nature of my parents’ relationship with me and my kids, to the point that I wonder why they even had kids to begin with, when they are always socializing and traveling instead of making time to see us. To give you some background, I am married with three young kids and live in NYC. My parents are retired and live a two- to three-hour drive away. My in-laws live and…
The Home Office has taken an important step to ensure the integrity of the science that underpins all decision-making at the Home Office with a new and updated Scientific Integrity Policy. As part of Secretary Deb Haaland’s commitment to “Unleash Science,” the updated Scientific Integrity Policy will focus on science, including how it benefits people, wildlife, and ecosystems across the country. Its purpose is to increase the American public’s understanding of the impact and value of the United States. world. This includes increasing the impact and value of Indigenous knowledge on public land management and other decisions. This update will…
We were less than 300 yards from camp when my buddy Brad stopped. “There’s gold in there,” he whispered as he grabbed the bino and pointed it uphill. “That’s just a huge two points.” But over Brad’s shoulder, less than 70 yards away, he saw another deer with its head down feeding. I replied as I shot the arrow. “How about the other one?” At that moment the two males trotted downhill to join the second male and both slipped into the timber below us. So we carefully walked up to where we expected the deer to go and within…
I’m a professor and I’m preparing to welcome a new freshman class to campus. I’m also a mom who just sent my youngest son off to transfer from a community college to a large local university. I am conducting research on child rearing of adolescents. I am very concerned about university students and their parents. After drop-off and pick-up, I spent most of yesterday thinking about my son and adamantly didn’t text him. why? I was trying to avoid some of the traps that college parents fall into. Fundamentals: The goal is autonomy For many American students, college is a…
A study published online by JAMA Network Open on June 20, 2024 suggests that you can live longer by following healthy habits even in later life. Researchers looked at the lifestyles of 5,222 people aged 80 and older. We then looked at who in the group had reached 100 years of age (centenarians) and who had not. The researchers ranked each person’s lifestyle on a scale of 0 to 6, with higher scores suggesting healthier behaviors. The score was calculated based on habits such as dietary diversity, regular exercise, smoking, alcohol intake, and body mass index (BMI). Participants who scored…
Scientists have linked prediabetes and diabetes to brain aging. Christian Charisius/picture Alliance via Getty Images Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are both associated with an increased risk of brain-related health problems. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet used brain imaging to confirm that both diabetes and prediabetes are correlated with accelerated brain aging. Scientists have found that healthy lifestyle choices, such as quitting smoking, may help counteract the negative effects on the brain associated with diabetes. Past research has linked both prediabetes and type 2 diabetes to an increased risk of certain brain-related health problems. For example, a study published in February…
For some students, the days of rushing to Bed Bath & Beyond the day before college started, clutching 20% off coupons to pick up colorful crates and snap-on desk lamps, are long gone. It was a long time ago.Many undergraduate students, especially in southern states, are now hiring interior designers to completely renovate their dorm rooms, at a cost of several thousand dollars per room.And even if they don’t arrive on moving day with a professional designer by their side, students are still spending nearly twice as much as they did just 10 years ago. According to the National Retail…
HOUSTON — The nation’s top doctor has issued a warning that parents are currently under a dangerous amount of stress. The recommendations cite a report from the American Psychological Association that finds nearly half of all parents are under overwhelming stress. When looking at childless adults, that number drops to 26 percent. The Wall Street Journal reports that parents are lonely too, with research showing that 65% of parents report being lonely and 55% of childless adults report the same. . Parenting has always been a difficult but rewarding job, what has changed? Experts say parents are facing new and…