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How to get your teen to develop healthy sleep habits

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

Dear Mayo Clinic: My 14-year-old daughter goes to bed each night around 10 p.m. Some nights she complains that she cannot fall asleep until hours later. Although she wakes up and says she isn’t tired, she does sleep in on weekends. I’m concerned about insomnia, but I’m also worried it’s affecting her ability to concentrate in school. What advice do you have?A: Lots of children your daughter’s age have trouble falling asleep easily at night. Though one might say your daughter has bouts of insomnia, in many cases, the reason for sleep challenges can be traced back to habits a child has developed that interfere with good sleep. Less often, it may be due to a sleep disorder.Unfortunately, many teens don’t get the sleep they need. To be well-rested and to help them stay healthy, teenagers need about eight to 10 hours of sleep each night. Healthy sleep is important for many reasons. It can fight stress, improve mood and attitude, and provide energy. Whe...

Perfect Mother’s Day gifts for moms who love joy of travel

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

There are moms, and then there are wanderlust moms. This Mother’s Day, whether your mom’s a frequent traveler or frequent dreamer of travel, give her gifts that take her there.Wrapped in comfort home and away: There are throws, and then there are Alicia Adams Alpaca Throws. For easy-to-take-along comfort on a plane, the car, on a train, this incredible, soft and durable throw is a splurge, but it’s a lifetime gift. Alicia Adams Alpaca raises and manages a herd of over 200 Suri alpacas – sustainably — at a beautiful farm in New York’s Hudson Valley. From their wool comes these super soft yet tough blankets, throws, wraps and more. She’ll take it everywhere; feeling your love wherever she lands. https://aliciaadamsalpaca.comA book for her adventurous soul: If your’s is a Ski Mom, she’s going to love this children’s book that gives her a fun, educational and interactive way to share her love of skiing and ski travel with her kids/grandkids  all year round. ̶...

Fenway Park takes the lead in ‘Iconic America’ on PBS

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

A billionaire philanthropist and history buff, David Rubenstein is chairman of the Kennedy Center and the National Gallery of Art, the buyer of the last privately-owned Magna Carta for $21.3 million, and now host and executive producer of PBS’s wide-ranging eight-episode historical series “Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein.”Wednesday’s premiere profiles Boston’s Fenway Park. Future episodes cover the American Cowboy, LA’s HOLLYWOOD sign, Atlanta’s Stone Mountain and Route 66.Fenway Park and the Red Sox, bought by the Henry Group in 2001 for $660 million, is now worth almost $5 billion“When the current owners bought it,” Rubenstein, 73, said in a phone interview, “they actually thought about building a new stadium and ultimately decided to keep it.”The oldest stadium in Major League Baseball,  “I didn’t realize until I got into this that it’s the number one tourist attraction in Boston,” Rubenstein said.  “If you go there when there are no game...

Ticks are a problem – protect your dog

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

Dear Dr. John,There has been some recent coverage regarding ticks and the problems they transmit. Apparently, this has become more of an issue this year due to the warmer winter that we had with less snow. Is this true? I heard about two other diseases that ticks can transmit to dogs, but even humans as well. How concerned should I be with these two emerging diseases or are they really that new? My dog does take a monthly chewable flea and tick medication for 8-9 months a year and it seems that giving it year-round should now be considered. What do you advise? B.A.Dear B.A.,As you point out, there has been some recent news coverage in the New England area regarding tick-borne diseases which seem to be on the rise due to warmer weather. It has been enough of an issue that the Centers for Disease Control has called Massachusetts an endemic area for one of the two conditions you refer to, namely Babesiosis. The other illness Anaplasmosis. There are two other tick-borne pathogens that w...

Checking out interviewer’s background a savvy move

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

Q. I have an interview next week and looked up my interviewer’s background. Can I say that or does it seem like I’m stalking?A. Good question and first, congrats on the interview! It’s excellent that you’re preparing for it. Yes, feel free to point it out.When I worked in recruiting and candidates mentioned they looked up the interviewers or just mentioned their work history (implying that they looked them up), it showed they were interested in the role. As a recruiter or hiring manager, I’d be more concerned if you didn’t than if you did.Q. I’ve been applying to jobs and not hearing back. I’m emailing contacts for networking calls, researching companies. What else should I be doing?A. One of the keys to landing a new job is persistence and consistency and it sounds like you have both fronts covered. Two words: keep going! I’d add mock interviewing to the mix so you’re prepared and ready. What will you wear? Have a go-to in...

Girls hockey All-Scholastics and All-Stars

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

DREAM TEAMJenna Chaplain (St. Mary’s)McKenna Colella (Duxbury)Caroline Doherty (Hingham)Maggie Lynch (Archbishop Williams)Anna McGinty (Duxbury)Madeline Mrva (Shrewsbury)ALL-SCHOLASTICSVictoria Apostolakes (Billerica/Chelmsford)Jennifer Birolini (Pembroke)Taylor Bruno (Methuen/Tewksbury)Kaitlyn Bush (HPNA)Maeve Campbell (Plymouth)Angelina Catino (St. Mary’s)Allison Corrieri (Acton-Boxboro)Danielle DeJon (Malden Catholic)Carolyn Durand (Canton)Annie Ettenhofer (Winchester)Sarah Francis (Notre Dame)Bridget Gray (Belmont)Emma Holmes (Winthrop)Julia Holmes (Winthrop)Emily Johns (Algonquin)Avery Johnsen (Falmouth)Caitlin Kelley (Bishop Feehan)Audrey Koen (Canton)Rose MacLean (Andover)Marisa Montoya (Shrewsbury)Grace Mottau (Archbishop Williams)Eliza O’Sullivan (Andover)Maggie Pierce (St. Mary’s)Taylor Ryder (Shrewsbury)Remoré Serra (Billerica/Chelmsford)Penny Spack (Peabody/Lynnfield/NR)Sophia Visceglio (Sandwich)Lauren White (Notre Dame)HONORABLE MENTIONOlivia Avellar (Cape Cod)Meghan B...

What to know when hiring a divorce lawyer

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

Q. I’m trying to hire a divorce lawyer and finding it more challenging than I expected.  Appointments are weeks out, I get calls back from paralegals and not the lawyers. All they do is ask questions.  I am hoping to separate over the summer so we can figure out a parenting plan and let our kids get used to things before they go back to school in September.A. Don’t be offended that you are getting return calls from paralegals as opposed to the lawyers themselves.  It is the paralegal’s job to get some background information from prospective clients and pass it along to the lawyers.  Indeed, before talking with a potential client, the lawyer is going to want to know something about the case in order to have a meaningful discussion with you. Do you want to be charged a few to several hundred dollars for the lawyer to ask questions to elicit your biographical / statistical information?  It is far more cost effective to have the paralegals get the background so we know can offer at leas...

For David Wax, all roads lead from Mexico

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

You must change your life.David Wax heard a voice whispering this command to him during a summer trip to Mexico in 2001.“That’s when I first heard Mexican folk music, Son Mexicano, and this particular style called huapango music,” Wax told the Herald. “At that moment, I felt a deep resonance with the music but I didn’t know it would change my life.”Since that first trip, that command has pestered Wax. It nagged him after he graduated from Harvard in 2006 and headed back to Mexico for a yearlong fellowship to study regional folk. It may have nudged him to build with bandmate and wife Suz Slezak a barn in Charlottesville, or pushed him toward his relationship with Slezak.Wax gave the words their due in the title track of new David Wax Museum record, “You Must Change Your Life.” It’s a record that charts his deep love for and complex relationship with Mexican folk.“(After studying music in Mexico) I felt like I could bring all these instruments and influences and rhythms and song struc...

Catalina Sandino Moreno faces fears in new season of ‘From’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

“From” is the hit horror series where anyone who enters a small town discovers they are trapped. They can’t leave and, worse, are at the mercy of murderous monsters who only come out at night.For Catalina Sandino Moreno and Eion Bailey who play trapped, stressed out parents Tabitha and Jim Matthews stuck with their two children Julie and Ethan, it’s no surprise the series continues for a second season Sunday on AppleTV+.With the pandemic, Bailey, 46, noted, “We were all trapped in a place we couldn’t escape when the show started. That’s exactly why I figured this would find some success and go on.  Because this resonates with people. We’ve all felt in the last couple of years, feeling stuck and not knowing what to do, how to get out.“Allegorically, I think the show really fires on all cylinders and I’m not surprised that people connect with it.”Added Moreno, 41, in a joint Zoom interview, “Everyone was scared of this virus that we didn’t quite know what it wa...

To end a war, ask questions

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:01 GMT

Q. My ex is such a liar! He makes up stuff and tells me it happened his way, when I know it didn’t. My friend told me that was “gaslighting” and that was a trait of being a narcissist. What can I do if ex is a narcissist? What’s good ex-etiquette?A. First of all, let’s take a look at what gaslighting is and whether you are truly a victim of it. Gaslighting, from a practical sense, is knowledge that something you are saying is untrue by distorting reality and forcing the other person to question their own judgment and/or intuition. The key to this definition is “the knowledge that something you are saying is untrue.”This is an important distinction. When mediating divorcing couples, most don’t see eye to eye, but that doesn’t mean they are lying, nor does it mean they are gaslighting. It could simply mean they have a different perception of what happened.I often try explaining what happens when two people witness an accident. If you are standing on the north corner of an intersection...