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They’re holding up your shower curtain if you have one. You probably even have some old ones lying around in your junk drawers. How big was my surprise when I found out that shower curtain rings and hooks are incredibly useful for all around the house… not just in the bathroom! At only a couple of bucks per dozen rings (for the cheap ones, of course), the rings can easily become an essential tool in your home organization arsenal. Here’s a list of 16 surprising ways to use shower curtain rings in your home. 16 Surprising Uses for Shower Curtain...

American history and civics can be, to put it kindly, not always the most interesting of subjects to kids, even on TV. As important as these topics are, it’s sometimes difficult for a show to make the argument that a kid should care about events that happened centuries ago, or how the divisions of government work. And the electoral college? Forget about it. That might be because too few shows try to package these dry topics in engaging, creative ways, or try to impart them through regular genre programming. Fortunately, these episodes of popular shows do just that so well...

Look at the title.#1OK, just a few entries, but so far, getting the impression we need to screen teachers to be sure they're not sociopaths.#2Mrs. Tammy Taylor. That woman was abusive. She was my first grade teacher and made my life hell. She would blame me for every little thing that went wrong. Can't find her pens? She pointed at me. Can't find her gradebook? I must've taken it. I sneezed during a test and she took the test and ripped it up in front of me and cashed me a cheater in front of everyone. Once she made me...

The following was produced in partnership with our friends at Toca Boca as part of their Take A Stand For Play campaign, which aims to increase awareness about the importance of play in kids’ lives. Learn more here.You probably don’t need to be reminded that your kid needs to play, but you might need a refresher on the fact that not all play is created equal. There’s free play, guided play, and a whole lot of stuff billed as play that just straight-up isn’t. To parse all of that, look no further than Jeffrey Trawick-Smith and Roberta Golinkoff — two...

There’s absolutely nothing relatable about Shaquille O’Neal. He’s 7’1′ with a smile bigger than a Cadillac’s grill. He’s an icon, a walking billboard for his essential Shaqness. And he’s rich, flaunting an estimated net worth of $400 million. When I meet him at Toy Fair 2020, where he’s promoting Tonka Trucks, he’s got a rock on his finger that would tip over a plastic excavator. It’s not so much that Shaq is bigger than life; the three-time NBA MVP is just really good at it. At 47, Shaq is a quasi-retired stay-at-home dad, who, when he’s not lining up endorsement deals or making...