A concrete child-safety tip: adhesive reflective patches for making kids more visible after dark.
Firsthand discussion from families who began strongly screen-free and how their approach changed.
Practical peer strategies for surviving the exhausting newborn cluster-feeding stretch.
A useful boundary-setting dilemma: protecting bedtime while kids want unlimited neighbor play.
Addresses the recurring “go places” requests and the challenge of meeting kids’ need for outings realistically.
Invites concrete ways to help 9–11-year-old girls resist pressure to seem cool.
A parent’s Penang trip shifts when she stops pushing heritage lessons and follows her father’s lead: swim, eat and live like locals.
I brought my children to Penang to immerse them in the places of their grandparents’ stories. When I stopped lecturing them about gratitude and privilege, we enjoyed our final days doing as locals do As I stepped out of Penang international airport, the humidity hit me like I was peering into a just-opened rice cooker. The air carried whiffs of exhaust fumes, fried food and something earthy. It felt thrilling and familiar because I was born in Penang and lived there for six years before I moved…
Six writers examine harms they caused, including mistreating a teacher and mistrusting a foster mother, and the apologies left unsaid.
From making life hell for a young teacher to doubting the motives of a caring foster mother, Olivia Petter, Derek Owusu, Annie Lord and other writers repent for past bad behaviour At school, I was not a good girl. Actually, that’s putting it mildly: I was an emotional terrorist hellbent on inflicting torture and humiliation on my year 6 teacher, Ms Hill, one whoopee cushion at a time. That’s how it began, anyway, but like all crimes, mine followed a strategic pattern of escalation, carefully ex…
Scientists discovered a surprising energy paradox in the brain during REM sleep, the stage most closely associated with dreaming. Blood supply to the brain begins increasing even before REM starts, but neurons’ immediately available energy, measured as ATP, then drops. The finding suggests that dreaming may require such intense internal processing that neurons consume energy faster than it can be replenished.
Scientists discovered a surprising energy paradox in the brain during REM sleep, the stage most closely associated with dreaming. Blood supply to the brain begins increasing even before REM starts, but neurons’ immediately available energy, measured as ATP, then drops. The finding suggests that dreaming may require such intense internal processing that neurons consume energy faster than it can be replenished.