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By Business Insider on Nov 10, 2023 in: shopping
Sensory-friendly hours will now be a daily occurrence at all US Walmart locations. Stores will dim the lights and turn off the music from 8-10 a.m.
RFK Jr. says, "You cannot trust medical advice from medical professionals." Trust him on this. He's the guy who says Covid-19 was "ethnically targeted" to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. He has promoted disinformation about vaccines caus...
By Boing Boing on Jul 10, 2023 in: children
A 13-year-old autistic boy in Colorado has been stuck in the ER at UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital for the last three weeks after his father abandoned him there and social service workers said they didn't have the resources to take quick action. —...
By Life Hacker on Jun 13, 2023
If only there was a Bluey episode for every problem you encounter as a parent to young kids. If only there was a book specific enough to encapsulate your child’s exact anxieties about a new scenario. But maybe there is: “Social stories,” a tool...
By Boing Boing on Mar 17, 2023
It's bad enough when the Q-infused MAGA mob is in charge of the country. But put them in charge of children, and things get downright sick. At least with a group of hundreds of parents that meet on the far-right app Telegram, according to Vice, who e...
By Life Hacker on Feb 6, 2023 in: psychology
All kids need occasional (or constant) coaxing to complete the hundreds of tasks we expect from them in a day. Having to tell your kid to put his shoes on three times before school every day is not necessarily pathological, it’s within the typical...
By Business Insider on Jan 31, 2023
Ian Donley had casual sex in college to experience physical touch and chase a dopamine rush. Now he's looking for something more meaningful.