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How do you get siblings to be nice to each other? Latino families have an answer

11:35am April 24, 2024

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Over the past few decades, psychologists have begun to understand how parents across many cultures teach their children to build deep, fulfilling relationships with their siblings.

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Sleep training: Life preserver for parents or "symptom of capitalism"?

6:30am April 23, 2024

by Greg Rosalsky

The raging debate over how to juggle kids and work.

Scholars Susan Ashbrook Harvey, left, and Robin Darling Young became 'sworn siblings' after an ancient ritual at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

How two good friends became sworn siblings — with the revival of an ancient ritual

8:30am April 22, 2024

Thousands of years ago, there was a ceremony to bind close friends together as sworn siblings. Could the practice be resurrected today to strengthen modern friendships? Two women did just that.

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A family settled in Philadelphia in the '60s — the only Asians in the neighborhood

5:10am April 19, 2024

by Kayla Lattimore

In this week's StoryCorps, Deborah Wei recalls how her mother adapted to living in America after immigrating from China in the 1960s.

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An illustration of our solar system, with the sun surrounded by planets. Clouds of space dust curl around the solar system, dotted by various glowing star siblings.

Science

COMIC: Our sun was born with thousands of other stars. Where did they all go?

12:25pm April 18, 2024

Our sun was born in a cosmic cradle with thousands of other stars. Astrophysicists say they want to find these siblings in order to help answer the question: Are we alone out there?

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Hannah Allen attends Hudson County Community College and is the mother of three children. "First you put your kids," she says. "Then you put your jobs, then you put your school. And last, you put yourself."

Education

College is hard enough — try doing it while raising kids

5:00am April 18, 2024

by Jon Marcus

More than 5 million college students are also parents. But many colleges do little to support them. Most don't even offer child care.

The push to have seniors age in their homes, not hospitals

6:58pm April 16, 2024

More than 10 thousand older adults turn 65 every day. There's growing efforts to make sure they stay in their homes and out of hospitals and nursing homes as they age.

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Organizers say that more than 1,000 people were in attendance at a rally for abortion rights in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday, April 13.

Florida voters will decide on abortion rights this fall. Here's what some are saying

4:40pm April 15, 2024

by Danielle Prieur

The campaign to amend Florida's constitution to protect abortion rights kicked off in Orlando, attracting voters on both sides of the issue. The ballot question needs 60% approval to pass.

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The author's 8-year-old daughter Rosy has a 'kids' license,' showing she has her parents' permission to ride her bike around her Texas hometown.

How to give kids autonomy? 'Anxious Generation' author says a license to roam helps

7:00am April 14, 2024

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Kids have too much screen time and not enough autonomy, says author Jonathan Haidt. His book The Anxious Generation argues this has caused an epidemic of mental illness and suggests ways to fix it.

Simone Elliot holds a childhood photo of she and her sister with their mother.

Sisters make peace with dark memories through art, science and each other

7:00am April 13, 2024

by Gabriel Spitzer

Two sisters found they had different recollections of a traumatic childhood experience and learned that human memory is a lot less reliable than we tend to think.

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