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  • A hand holding a small unidentified key above an open, cluttered kitchen junk drawer.

    Organizing Your Junk Drawer Is Only Half the Job

    Open your junk drawer and pick up the first thing you can’t explain. Maybe it’s a small brass key. It could just as easily be a cable with an end you don’t recognize, or a screw that clearly came from something. Or it’s a battery, and you aren’t sure whether it still works. Now hold…

  • A parent holding a leash pauses at the front door, watching their still dog as trick-or-treaters wait outside.

    Halloween Should Fit Your Pet — Not the Other Way Around

    Your dog may love visitors but dislike crowded sidewalks. Meanwhile, your cat may be perfectly happy at home until the doorbell starts ringing. Before choosing a costume or planning a route, consider what Halloween will actually feel like for your pet. The doorbell rings for the fortieth time. On the porch stand a small dinosaur,…

  • A parent opens a closed case to find a still-damp mouthguard in a family hallway on a game-day morning

    Sports Equipment Storage: What Your Gear Needs Before You Put It Away

    The soccer cleats are by the front door. A basketball has found its way into the hallway. Somewhere in the garage, a hockey bag that should have been emptied two days ago is still zipped shut. Then it’s 7:40 on Saturday morning, the game starts at 8:30, and someone asks the question that turns an…

  • A father in a doorway watches his teenage daughter on her phone in a dark living room at night.

    Think Your Child Is Being Cyberbullied? Start by Finding Out What Actually Happened

    It’s a school night, a little before ten. Your 13-year-old is sitting on the couch with a phone in hand. You walk into the room, and the screen goes dark. Maybe it’s nothing. But maybe you’ve noticed other changes lately, and a question you’ve been trying not to ask moves to the front of your…

  • A parent in a doorway at golden hour on Halloween, checking a mapped route on their phone while a costumed child ties their shoe on the porch behind them.

    Your Halloween Route Has Eight Crossings. The Number Matters — Just Not the Way You Think.

    You pull up the route on your phone the week before Halloween. Eight streets to cross between the first house and the last. It feels like useful information, the kind of number a parent can plan around. Fewer crossings, less risk. More crossings, more risk. Simple. Except it isn’t, and the research behind this article…

  • Parent adjusting a child’s bright Halloween costume in a warmly lit kitchen before heading outside at dusk.

    Your Kid’s Halloween Costume Looks Bright. But Can a Driver Actually See Them?

    You picked this costume because it was the one you could spot from across the store — bright orange, bright purple, maybe covered in something that caught the eye under fluorescent lights. Of course they’ll see that, you thought. And you probably weren’t wrong. Not about the store. Now it’s Halloween night, and your child…