Fellow workers, I feel your pain and conflict. You have a million things on your plate: work, ferrying kids to camps and playdates, housework, laundry, grocery shopping and meal prep and cooking. It is a staggering, never-ending list of chores. And, on top of it all, we have celebrity chefs and other do-gooders telling us that home cooking doesn’t take that much time. It makes me want to scream.
Three sociologists are here to reassure you that it’s not your fault. They have conducted a study and confirmed what you probably suspected: our crazy modern lives and lack of control over our work make cooking a luxury.
Also this weekend, we have stories about building your child’s vocabulary, what exactly jihad means and why people faint.
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Getting a healthy meal on the table every night is a challenge for many mothers.
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Joslyn Brenton, Ithaca College; Sarah Bowen, North Carolina State University; Sinikka Elliott, University of British Columbia
Celebrity chefs often preach about the ease of home cooking and meal planning. But for most mothers juggling a job, child care, housework and meal prep, this is virtually impossible.
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The size of a child’s vocabulary during the early years helps shape language skills later in life.
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David Dickinson, Vanderbilt University
The earliest years of children's lives represent some of the best opportunities to expand their vocabulary and language skills.
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This term ‘jihad’ can include various forms of nonviolent struggles: for instance, the struggle to become a better person.
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Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Michigan State University
Violent radicals are often described as jihadists. A scholar explains what the word means and why those using the word to justify terrorism are often misrepresenting their sources.
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Rob Book, University of Southern Denmark
For many professional athletes, leaving their troubled neighborhoods for better resourced prep schools paved the way for success.
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Chad Painter, University of Dayton
With major dailies giving a megaphone to the police, the coverage of Stonewall is a reminder of what's lost when alternative media outlets wither away.
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Anne R. Crecelius, University of Dayton
Most of the time, different parts of your nervous system work in balance. But sometimes things can get out of whack – and that's when you might end up experiencing what medics call syncope.
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