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  Life is busy. Add kids into the mix, and you are literally and figuratively pulled in multiple directions. We all need to eat. How do we keep the chaos to a minimum and let a mealtime ritual become a source of managing our stress and maintaining connection? Here are six mealtime tips to inspire healthy habits for you and your family. These strategies help my family: make the time to be together — manage realistic expectations around family meals; keep on a strict budget; ensure suitable nutrition and; do so sustainably — creating long-term habits.   Give them a...

AppleTV+ Acapulco dropped on the streaming service last week! I will have a review of the series coming soon, so make sure to stop back by to check it out, it will be linked down below. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of some of the best quotes from the show. Check out these 100+ collection of the best AppleTV+ Acapulco quotes. If you enjoyed these AppleTV+ Acapulco quotes, check out these other articles: Halloween Kills quotes, I Know What You Did Last Summer quotes, Dune movie quotes, You season 3 quotes. AppleTV+ Acapulco Quotes Your nephew...

Your favorite textbook could never. Japanese is a difficult language for English-speakers to learn for a wide variety of reasons. But that difficulty is exactly what makes it so satisfying too. Part of that path toward learning is finding out that the Japanese you’ve learned from textbooks isn’t quite how real people talk. Less Anata wa ramen ga ima tabetai desu ka? (Do you want to eat ramen now?) and more Ramen ni shiyou ka? (“You down for ramen?”). To that end, Japanese language coach @CicoJapanese recently posted a cute video of their daughters showing off some common slang versions of...

 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all Carol Burris: The Myth of “Charter School Enrollment Growth” During Pandemic by dianeravitch / 19min On September 22, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools put out a press release boasting of unprecedented enrollment growth during the pandemic. The report asserted that charter school enrollment increased during the pandemic in at least 39 states, with a 7 percent overall increase. The charter lobby said that this growth “is likely” to be “the largest rate of...

For most people in the west, Studio Ghibli is probably pretty much interchangeable with Hayao Miyazaki, its most prolific and well-known director. But while Miyazaki’s brilliance and influence is undeniable (I have definitely brought myself to tears just thinking about Princess Mononoke), there are a good number of Studio Ghibli films that were not directed by him which are just as wonderful and captivating. I especially want to highlight the work of Isao Takahata, an accomplished and renowned director in his own right who was also one of the co-founders of Studio Ghibli. Pre-Ghibli, Takahata and Miyazaki had in fact...