Bohemian couple lived van two years build cellar door backyard

Young kids whose parents divorce struggle with math, social skills and emotions such as anxiety and depression for at least two years after the split, a new study finds.The research is the first long-term study to break down the effects of divorce by the predivorce, during-divorce and postdivorce phases. Surprisingly, said study researcher Hyun Sik Kim, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, parents' predivorce marital problems didn't influence their kids' social and school success. But once divorce proceedings began, children fell behind and failed to catch up for at least two years."The best thing I can suggest is that when we observe children of divorce, we need to intervene as early as possible," Kim told LiveScience. "Because if children of divorce undergo a certain stage, then it is hard to make them catch up to their counterparts."For the childrenPrevious research has shown that divorce is tough on kids, with one study showing the experience doubled a … [Read more...] about Divorce Plagues Kids’ Social, Academic Lives for Years

As I write this, my cat, Calvin, is hiding under the bed, a pillow for a barricade. He’s peering over the top, staring through the sliding glass door to the backyard. His yellow eyes are like a set of high-beam headlights. When I hold him, I can feel his little heart pounding through his chest. You see, Calvin used up another one of his nine lives this past week in an encounter with a mountain lion in our backyard, which adjoins open space. A big raccoon, it turned out, was not so lucky. As my cat looks out, I wonder if he remembered some of his other close calls. How, as a newborn kitten, someone abandoned him in a bush, and Erika Carpenter, on a bike ride, heard him crying, stopped, found him and brought him home to raise with a newborn litter. Then, when Erika was on business out of the country, how Calvin survived being locked in a flooded house for weeks without food or heat, when a pipe broke during a winter freeze and a caretaker forgot to check on him. When I moved … [Read more...] about Pet cat Calvin uses 1 of his 9 lives against big mountain lion

Appalled relatives have begged the public not to give money to a couple with seven children who raised more than £3,000 in a GoFundMe plea to help pay for Christmas presents. Ryan Rodgers, 26, and Jenny Grimes, 25, received thousands of pounds for their online appeal after claiming they were strapped for cash after having their benefits capped.  But Jenny Grimes' brother said anyone considering giving his sister money to think again - and revealed she has already spent some of the cash on a tattoo. Andy Grattan also claimed the money donated by members of the public on GoFundMe had been used to buy items that the pair are now selling and making a profit on. Ryan Rodgers, 26, and Jenny Grimes, 25, with their seven children. The couple have been described as the neighbours from hell Mr Grattan lived with Jenny and Ryan for more than a year and says he regularly had to find money to ensure his nieces and nephews were fed. Speaking exclusively to the Mail Online he said: 'I was … [Read more...] about ‘Disgusted’ relatives beg the public not to give money to couple with seven children who raised more than £3,000 in GoFundMe plea for Christmas help and claim they have spent the cash on a tattoo and tickets for Frozen 2

Photo: The WB For the next three weeks, Vulture is holding a TV Couple Scuffle to determine the greatest couple on television in the past 30 years. Below, we revisit one of TV’s greatest love stories that didn’t make the bracket: Felicity and Noel/Ben. On one hand, Felicity moved across the country to chase after Ben. On the other, Noel convinced her to stay in New York. Ben was the perfect fantasy. Noel understood her as a person. Ben, as played by Scott Speedman, had the hair of a Greek god. Noel (Scott Foley), the kind of smile that makes you feel like he’d get your inside jokes. Also, he has stunning hazel-green eyes, like sunlight filtering through a forest — though, to be fair, Ben has great eyes, too. Created by Matt Reeves and J.J. Abrams, Felicity follows Keri Russell from high school in California to college in New York (think NYU with more earth tones), where she decides between being premed and studying art, and mostly, between two … [Read more...] about Had TV’s Greatest Love Triangle, But No Great Couples

Here’s more on techies being fooled. A techie couple living at Haralur Road were duped by a travel agency which promised to book tickets for their Christmas holidays in Thailand. Ranjita (name changed) and her husband planned to go to Thailand along with their child. When Ranjani started checking the fares on a popular travel portal, an agent of the company called her and took down her requirements. The same day, she received another call from an agent of a travel firm named ‘Trip Wisers’ who claimed that they were empanelled with the popular website. Ranjita told the police that she was in touch with Neeraj Verma and Bhavna Kanwal who claimed to be agents of Trip Wisers. They gave her a Google Pay number and asked her to transfer the money; they promised her that the tickets would be dispatched to her in three days. Ranjita told Bangalore Mirror: “The accused said they were part of the travel company which has a tie up with the online travel portal. So I … [Read more...] about Techie couple looking to holiday in Thailand loses Rs 98,838