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Many of us laugh this off as one of many stale aphorisms uncles tell us on our wedding day. But, of course, there’s a lot of truth to it. Your partner’s extended family — your in-laws, your brothers and sisters-in-law, your cousins-in-law, and so on and so forth — become a big part of your life. You inherit the good and the bad. And when you have kids? Conflicts naturally emerge. There are just so many areas for disagreements to take place: You want to raise your kids one way; your in-laws did it a bit differently. You don’t want...

Enlarge / The Facebook app displayed on the screen of an iPhone. (credit: Fabian Sommer | picture alliance | Getty Images) Facebook's most recent attempt to extricate itself from a potentially landmark lawsuit has come to a dead end, as a federal court declined to hear another appeal to stop the $35 billion class action. In San Francisco last week, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied Facebook's petition for an en banc hearing in the case. Usually, appeals cases are heard by a panel of three judges out of all the judges who work in a...

One of the ways I've adapted my small city apartment to suit my needs is by converting the previously unused "dining room" into a book-filled reading nook and using my living room coffee table to eat a majority of my meals instead. I'm all about that floor seating life, which I also find helpful for having friends over for game night or book club (I mean, who doesn't want to sit near the charcuterie board?). When my well-worn knitted pouf finally reached the retirement stage (aka it resembled a flattened pancake), I had my sights set on an embroidered Moroccan...

I know. I know. You’re thinking: No they don’t. Kids are terrified of clowns. But the numbers don’t lie. It turns out, there might be a bunch of baby Pennywise the Clowns darkening your doorstep this Halloween. Will they be holding one red balloon and scaring the shit out of you?  Answer: Yes. Solution? Deal with it. This week, according to findings published by Google’s 2019 Halloween costume trends, the most searched costume in September of 2019 was “IT.” Now, you might dismissively assume that this is only adults searching for adult costumes that would allow them to be Pennywise the Clown from IT....

Not only do toddlers and small children have different needs than older children and adults, they are less physically able to assist or withstand the rigors of a bugout or extended bugout – especially if they are not being trained to do so from infancy. It is also during the first four years of life that children have the greatest changes in growth and mental capacity. Toddlers are wonderous little sponges ready and eager to soak up any information or experience that comes their way. Capitalize on their natural curiosity and feed them upon on a steady diet of age...