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Navigating bedtime with a teenager is, in many homes, a nightly battle with a constant refrain: Get off your phone! Go to bed ...

In the meantime, if a solid three hours of shut-eye is a distant memory for you, please know you’re not alone: you aren’t ...

Experts recommend trying a tech-free bedtime routine and making sure teens know the consequences of poor sleep.

Try to get to bed around the same time each night and start winding down at least 30 minutes before. During that time, ...

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You may choose to shower in the morning as an energizing way to start your day. Or you may opt to shower at night as a way to rinse off the day. While it truly comes down to personal preference, some ...

“The Lyrids are a medium strength shower that usually produces good rates for three nights centered on the maximum,” states the American Meteor Society. Additionally, while the April meteor ...

"I lost everything," she said. "My baby didn't even have a bottle last night, I didn't have anything ... no diapers, no wipes. ... I just had blankets that I covered her with to get out the house." ...

If you pick the wrong film, you can feel like you wasted your family night or even worse, that you showed your children something they shouldn't be watching. Not all kids movies are meant for kids.