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☆ My mom and I are parenting children the same age. We are going through the same challenges and get to commiserate about it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Rebecca Hastings | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It's hard for people to understand that I have siblings the same age as my kids. AdvertisementI still remember how my mom and I tried to corral the kids while eating burgers at the local restaurant years ago. People often try to correct me, thinking they might be my siblings' kids, my nieces and nephews. When they go to school and have a hard day, there are people there who know and love them. When I have a hard day, my mom is in the midst of the same stage of parenting — with a bit more wisdom on her side!

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☆ Why America hates its children
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-07 | by ( Lydia Kiesling | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Time and again, I was struck by a public attitude toward children I seldom encountered in America: unequivocal support. In America, we socialize our children to see strangers not as helpers but as threats. Virtually every other industrialized nation provides more government aid for their children than America does. Children who are neglected — a loose term inextricably tied to poverty — are thrown into a foster-care system known for its propensity to harm children. From the tumult of the pandemic, the calls for America to care more for its children are getting louder.

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☆ I'm a millennial who's never having kids. I don't take the decision lightly, but there are too many risks.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Jules Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That's tough to write, even as a 31-year-old who's never wanted kids, without tacking on a "right now" at the end. I don't take the decision of whether to bring a new life into this world lightly. My partner and I have health insurance through our employers, but we've been between coverage before. Plus, there can be up to a three-month delay for health insurance to kick in when you start a new job. Now factor in prenatal care, postnatal care, diapers, and — even worse, I'm told — formula, as well as day care and education.

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☆ Talking to my friends every day made me realize I don't need marriage or kids to be happy
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Jillian Anthony | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I'm single and child-free, and I'm closer than ever with four friends who are all married with kids — all thanks to an app. Meanwhile, my Marco Polo friends in California all got married and had kids by their mid-20s; they now have 10 children among them. Through Marco Polo, I got a long-distance yet close-up look at their lives. And, in some significant ways, my Marco Polo besties helped me get there. AdvertisementWe are closer than ever, and we still talk on Marco Polo every day.

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☆ 5 tips for completing your ‘to-do’ list
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Andrea Kane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

(CNN) — Do you walk around with a to-do list in your pocket or in your head? It’s a fact of life that most people have an ongoing list of tasks that must get done on a regular basis. And all those “care tasks,” as she calls them, started to pile up as depression. It’s important to understand that the inability to perform care tasks is not a moral failure, Davis said. “I want people to know that care tasks — whether it’s cooking, cleaning, dishes, feeding yourself, getting into the shower — they are morally neutral.

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Consumers shouldn't eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don't know the source, U.S. health officials said Thursday, as the number of illnesses and recalls tied to a deadly salmonella outbreak grows. At least 117 people in 34 U.S. states have been sickened by contaminated cantaloupe, including 61 who were hospitalized and two who died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because of the scope of the recalls and potential uncertainty about the source of the cantaloupe, health officials warned consumers to be cautious. Political Cartoons View All 1274 Images“If you cannot tell if your cantaloupe, including pre-cut cantaloupe or products containing pre-cut cantaloupe is part of the recall, do not eat or use it and throw it away,” the FDA said in a statement. Illnesses typically last four to seven days.

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☆ Most parents agree: bedtime sucks. Here's how I'm changing my mindset about it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Kat Storr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Bedtime is the part of the day I dread the most, and I'm not alone. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementBedtime dread must be the most common topic of conversation I have with my friends who are also parents. I know I'm not alone in the struggleI take a lot of comfort in knowing that I'm not alone in struggling to get my kids to bed. But I would never want people to think I'm blaming my children for my dislike of bedtimes.

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☆ What an isolated community in Africa may be able to teach about child care
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The children had a high degree of physical contact and care for most of time they were observed. Nikhil ChaudharyResponses to cryingWhat was notable, Chaudhary said, wasn’t necessarily the amount of care children received, but that mothers weren’t responsible for all of it. Other caregivers — fathers, older siblings and nonrelatives — were responsible for 38% to 46% of close care, according to the study. The mean number of caregivers other than a child’s mother was 14.4, but these weren’t all adults. “How representative would a day care center with 18 children in inner-city London be of childhood … anywhere?” he asked.

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☆ A modern etiquette guide for group chats
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Michael Venutolo-Mantovani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

A recent poll of 1,005 US adults found the average American spends 26 minutes a day reading and responding to group chats. For us to survive and thrive as humans, it's time to agree on the Definitive Etiquette of the Group Chat. The ultimate appeal of group chats — their necessity, really — is that they've become the only social media that's actually social. Group chats can become overwhelming, of course, especially as they creep into other apps and especially as they often duplicate participants. Don't talk about the group chat outside the group chat.

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That was the vision of Joan Kroc, billionaire philanthropist and heiress to the McDonald’s fortune of her husband, Ray. And today, 20 years later, 26 grand, state-of-the-art Kroc centers have opened in places as varied as Ashland, Ohio; Guayama, Puerto Rico; and Quincy, Illinois. Half was to be earmarked for the construction of recreation centers, with the other half deposited into endowments to support them. In the two decades since Kroc’s bequest, quantifying the precise impact on all of the communities served by the Kroc centers is difficult. She explained that Joan Kroc meant for the place to be accessible to all — that beauty was part of her plan.

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☆ Move to Rename ‘Anne Frank’ Day Care Center Stirs Criticism in Germany
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Graham Bowley | More About Graham Bowley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A proposal in a small German town to rename a public day care center that is currently named after Anne Frank has become the center of a fraught national debate in the country about antisemitism. Germany has long engaged in palpable national soul searching about the responsibility to remember the past given the country’s own history, including specifically about Anne Frank herself. According to the report in the Volksstimme, the impetus to change the name had come from parents and day care employees, with the new name thought to be more child friendly. The story of Anne Frank was difficult for children to understand and “parents with a migrant background would often not know what to make of the name,” the newspaper reported, citing school authorities. The director of the school was quoted as saying the school wanted a name “without political background.”

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police are investigating another fire at a mosque, and faith leaders want them to look closely at the motive if the fire that destroyed three garages is determined to be arson. The fire at Mercy Mosque happened around midday Wednesday and caused more than $100,000 worth of damage. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports there have been at least six other instances of vandalism at Muslim houses of worship in the state this year, including two arson cases that are pending. Investigators are still working to determine what caused this latest fire. A Minneapolis man has been charged in those fires.

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(AP) — South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has requested guidance from the state’s Supreme Court about conflict-of-interest rules for lawmakers, several weeks after a South Dakota state lawmaker resigned and agreed to repay $500,000 in federal COVID-19 relief that she received for her day care business. Doing so violated a state Supreme Court advisory warning state lawmakers that it is unconstitutional for them to accept federal pandemic funding. Noem, Attorney General Marty Jackley and two Republican lawmakers have sent letters to the court seeking clarity on what else is illegal, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported Thursday. Schoenbeck added that, depending on the court’s ruling, a number of lawmakers may need to resign or pay the state back for services received.

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☆ AMC's CEO thought he was texting naughty photos to a former ballerina fling. Then everything went haywire.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

This "resentment toward her abusers" may have led her to text Aron — a wealthy, powerful man in the public eye, her lawyers said. "Send me a naughty picture," Blackwood texted, a couple weeks into their flirty exchange. When he asked for photos in return, Blackwood sent him images of an unnamed Russian model that she pulled from Instagram. "Ceo scandal is apparently lucrative," Blackwood texted, posing as Brian. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I was shown some images and I was wondering if you're available to speak," the fake reporter texted Aron.

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☆ Employees ‘didn’t work as hard’ when remote during Covid, billionaire CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Private-equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman doesn’t think office workers worked hard enough during Covid-19. “It was actually more profitable for them to stay home because one, they didn’t work as hard, regardless of what they told you. For example, about 58% of Manhattan office workers were at their workplace on an average weekday in late August and September, according to a survey from the Partnership for New York City. Just 12% of Manhattan office workers are in the office full time, according to that survey. Schwarzman, the Blackstone CEO, estimated that 20% of US office buildings are vacant and another 20% are leased but empty.

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☆ Women Who Work in Utah's Silicon Slopes Share Its Dark Side
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

During an interview for an engineering job at a Utah tech company, Trina Limpert was told she was a "risky hire." Insider spoke to 22 women who previously or currently work at Utah tech companies told Insider. Silicon Slopes, named for Utah's world-class ski slopes, is headquarters for tech companies like Ancestry, Domo, Entrata, Pluralsight, Qualtrics, and hosts outposts for others like Adobe and a Meta data-center. Many women — both Mormon and not — described their Utah tech companies as a Mormon boys' clubs. Ancestry, one of Utah's most established tech companies, hired former Facebook executive Deborah Liu as CEO in 2021.

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The cost to Israel's economy of its war with Hamas militants will be unlike anything it has experienced in decades. "This is not a hit for contractors or industrialists alone," said Raul Sarugo, president of the Israel Builders' Association. Israel was blindsided on Oct. 7 by Hamas gunmen from Gaza who rampaged through border towns in the deadliest attack on civilians in its history. The conflict has also halted the movement of thousands of Palestinian labourers from Gaza to Israel and curtailed the flow from the occupied West Bank. The Economy Ministry created a war room and put out a call for help.

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☆ Golf simulators, doggy daycare, flexible leases, and free rent: Why now may be the best time to shop for a new office
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Now may be the time to shop for an office lease. As office vacancies soar to record highs in some markets, office landlords often have no choice but to find new and creative ways to attract new clients. "When you have 55-year-old managing partners of a law firm looking for office space, and they see the golf simulator, they get pretty excited," he said. Long-term leases, which usually feature landlord-financed renovations to the office space, are now being offered with lease-termination options. Office landlords without access to this capital level are often left with only one lever: renting below market price.

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Mr. McCulley had been getting along all right in Newark, N.J., with one Kia Soul between him, his wife and their young daughter. Mr. McCulley was born there and always wanted to return, so they moved to Pompano Beach in early 2022. By that time, after some car swaps, they were driving a 2022 Kia Forte, which he leased for $294 per month. ”She could walk to Aldi and get groceries,” Mr. McCulley said of his wife. For Mr. McCulley, it’s an illustration that even for people who look comfortably middle class, car expenses contribute to a feeling of being overwhelmed.

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Grimes sued Elon Musk last month for physical custody of the former couple's three children. AdvertisementAdvertisementGrimes and Elon Musk's three children are not allowed to leave California after Grimes sued Musk last month for physical custody of the kids, according to court records obtained by Insider. Lawyers for Musk and Grimes declined to comment, and Musk didn't respond to a request for comment. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn his petition, Musk accused Grimes of moving to California "in an apparent attempt to circumvent jurisdiction" of Texas courts. It's not clear where Musk and Grimes' kids are currently living.

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☆ Shooting at a major Bangkok shopping mall kills 3, and a suspect is in police custody
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Emergency responders are seen entering the Siam Paragon mall after a shooting incident inside on October 03, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. BANGKOK (AP) — A shooter opened fire inside a major shopping mall in the center of Thailand's capital Tuesday afternoon, killing three people before being apprehended, authorities said. Police said a suspect was apprehended less than an hour after the first reported gunshots at the Siam Paragon Mall, long been seen as one of Bangkok's biggest and most upscale shopping destinations. Witnesses said crowds of people left the building, one of several shopping centers in the area popular with tourists and well-heeled Thais alike. She said she heard gunshots and an alarm ringing, and that the lights in the mall went out.

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The Emergency Alert System is a national public warning system that's designed to allow the president to speak to the American people within 10 minutes during a national emergency via specific outlets such as radio and television. And Wireless Emergency Alerts are short messages — 360 characters or less — that go to mobile phones to alert their owner to important information. Wireless phone customers in the United States whose phones were on got a message saying: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. That messages said: “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United States from 14:20 to 14:50 hours ET. “But I’m glad to know the national alert system works.”The test also sparked discussion about how it could affect people in abusive situations.

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☆ Why the end of federal child care funding matters — whether or not you have young kids
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Erik Ortiz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

"It's going to be a child care apocalypse," she said. "If someone came to me today and said they wanted to open up a child care center, I'd say, 'Don't do it.' That amounts to about 3.2 million children losing child care. In June, the GOP-controlled Legislature in Wisconsin voted to end its Child Care Counts subsidy program, with funding to help child care providers expected to be exhausted by February. On the federal level, Democratic members of Congress have introduced bills this year to expand federal subsidies for child care providers and create federally funded, but locally run, child care centers.

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☆ Fourth Suspect in Fentanyl Day Care Death Arrested in Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | More About Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A man wanted in connection with the fatal fentanyl poisoning of a 1-year-old boy at a Bronx day care this month was arrested in Mexico on Tuesday by federal agents, local and federal law enforcement officials said. Earlier on Tuesday, New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that Mr. Herrera had been on the run for nearly two weeks after fleeing the home-based day care on Sept. 15. Mr. Herrera, who has not yet been charged, is the fourth person to be arrested in connection with the death of the boy, Nicholas Feliz Dominici. The police worked with federal and Mexican officials to capture Mr. Herrera, officials said. Officials had expected Mr. Herrera to attempt to return to the Dominican Republic, where he is from.

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☆ Third arrest made in connection with suspected fentanyl overdose death of 1-year-old boy, exposure of 3 other children at Bronx day care center
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Mark Morales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —A third person has been arrested and was charged in federal court Monday in connection with the death of a 1-year-old boy who was exposed to the highly potent drug fentanyl while inside a Bronx day care, according to federal prosecutors. One-year-old Nicholas Dominici died after the suspected fentanyl exposure earlier this month at Divino Niño day care center. Paredes, who was arrested Saturday in an apartment in the Bronx, allegedly conspired to distribute fentanyl, including at the day care center, from at least July of 2023, authorities said. Paredes and his alleged co-conspirators, Grei Mendez and Carlisto Acevedo Brito, stored the drugs at the day care – including a kilo of fentanyl on children’s playmats, according to a criminal complaint. Investigators were able to trace phone calls and text messages from Mendez and Brito that led them to Paredes, according to the complaint.

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