When to Share Personal Info With Your Child's Teacher (and When Not To)
Lifehacker · 5 minSupport your child by keeping their teachers in the loop about what's going on at home.
Support your child by keeping their teachers in the loop about what's going on at home.
“Every child deserves a warm welcome—and a chance to welcome others as well.”
Do our doctors lack the empathy to warn us? Are women trying to not scare each other?
Gender, rather than race or age or immigration status, has become the country’s sharpest social fault line. Updated at 6:53 p.m. ET on March 24, 2023
What to do—and not to do—when our kids experience disappointment.
If saying “no” all the time has you feeling like the bad guy in the family, it might be time for a communication makeover.
Before he died a few years ago my father asked me to financially help out his only sister, unmarried and now in her 80s. He left me a small inheritance. After his death, I paid off a portion of his sister’s significant credit card debt, but she assumed I would pay all of it.
Life expectancy in the UK has grown at a slower rate than comparable countries over the past seven decades, according to researchers.
Living a long, healthy life may seem like it requires winning a genetic lottery, but there’s so much more under your control than you realize. Only 25% of our probability of living a longer life is due to inherited genes, while 75% is due to environmental factors, says Dr.
The emerging medical consensus around alcohol is likely to come as a downer for drinkers. Here's everything you need to know: For decades, doctors advised that consuming a daily alcoholic beverage or two is fine for one's health, or perhaps even beneficial.
If you hate Mondays, you're most certainly in good company. After a couple of days off, many of us have difficulty settling back into our routines and work duties. You may even have dread and anxiety that seeps into the weekend in the form of "Sunday scaries".
You’re probably used to getting bombarded with health advice daily. Try this. Eat this. Do this. Don’t do this. It can be a lot to digest. But incorporating healthy habits doesn’t have to be complicated.
For most working parents, balancing your job's demands with the need to spend more time with your kids can be a constant, stressful struggle. But you can stop anxiously counting the hours and minutes you spend at work instead of home, says Dr. Tovah Klein.
Every child tests limits and misbehaves, often by going against a parent, teacher, or caregiver’s wishes. However, consistent, intense defiance is sometimes classified as Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), a behavior disorder most often diagnosed in children.
There’s a new name on the lips of everyone looking to shed their last five, 10, or even 50 pounds. That name is semaglutide. Better known by its commercial name Ozempic, semaglutide is an injectable antidiabetic medication that curbs hunger and makes food seem unappetizing.
We all know that exercise is important for your overall health—its benefits go beyond the physical, it’s even essential to your mental wellness.
The idea of mindfulness activities promoting healthy and restful sleep isn't novel; in fact, there are numerous mindfulness methods that are both poised to improve mood and get someone in the space that invites restful sleep.
Staying active is important for overall health, but it can become more of a challenge as you age. With that, it’s important to find exercise routines that can support your health while also enhancing other areas of your life.
Kids will be kids, and accidents happen, but certain activities carry more risk than others. Injury is still the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and unfortunately, many of these are preventable.
The government is ready to declare COVID-19 over: The nationwide state of emergency is set to end on May 11. In California, the state of emergency concluded in February. Johns Hopkins University shut down its nationwide COVID-19 data tracking this month. But COVID-19 isn’t gone.
In 2020, the overall life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.5 years, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the reduction wasn't shared equally among the general population; Native American people lost an average of 4.
It’s no secret that we’re obsessed with happiness. After all, the “pursuit of happiness” is even enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But happiness is fleeting. How can we find it and keep it alive?
With potential vaccines still in development, prevention is key.