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“Can you tell the court a little bit about what she was like as a baby?” It was December 2018, and Robyn Bradshaw sat on the witness stand in the Hennepin County Juvenile Justice Center in Minneapolis, fighting for custody of her granddaughter. The night before, Bradshaw had attended a support ceremony with other members of her tribe, the White Earth Band of Ojibwa, to give her strength through the hearing. But as she answered questions from her lawyer, Bradshaw’s breath was short and her heart raced. The face of her granddaughter, a quick-witted, energetic 7-year-old with big brown eyes...

The pivot table is one of Microsoft Excel's most powerful — and intimidating — functions. Pivot tables can help you summarize and make sense of large data sets. However, they also have a reputation for being complicated. The good news is that learning how to create a pivot table in Excel is much easier than you may believe. We’re going to walk you through the process of creating a pivot table and show you just how simple it is. First, though, let's take a step back and make sure you understand exactly what a pivot table is, and why you...

I truly believe that every organizing project benefits from labeling. This could be labeling the drawers, drawer dividers, bins, or clips for bins. Because when things are clearly labeled, it makes maintaining the organizing much easier for everyone in the family. And when we keep the organizing in tact, we are more likely to never have to do a major organizing overhaul again! Learn how to make labels for organizing everything in your home! How To Make Labels With Stickers The tutorials below are showcasing how to make labels with stickers. There are many types of sticker paper and machines...

We all overthink sometimes. But if you’re still kicking yourself because your kid caught COVID at a family gathering last year or replaying that awkward Zoom meeting on a loop in your brain, you’re trapping yourself in your own head — which can be exhausting and harmful for your mental health. Overthinking is closely connected to unhappiness. Yale psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema famously linked rumination, the clinical term for overthinking, to depression. Unlike concern or even worry, which can lead us toward productive action, overthinking is circular, an endless cycle of chewing over what’s already happened, from small social missteps to...

At first glance, Erdembayar seems like an ordinary 12-year-old boy. He enjoys participating in physical education class at school with his friends as well as riding horses and cooking Korean food, fried rice, and cakes. But up until three years ago, he didn’t have energy for any of these things. For years previously, Erdembayar had found it difficult to sleep at night, so he made up for it during the day. Sometimes he even slept through class at school and the teacher would wake him up at the end of the period. “Normally, I couldn’t play with my fellow children...