Millennials are bonding over their Boomer parents’ ”gramnesia.’ Here’s what the viral term means.

September 23, 2024   |   Read Online

Millennials are bonding over their Boomer parents’ ”gramnesia.’ Here’s what the viral term means. People can’t get over how “accurate” it is. It’s funny how once something sort of abstract experience gets a name attached to it, it suddenly becomes much easier to relate to and talk about. The internet—and primarily TikTok—has been great for that. Sure, things get out of hand quite easily (like the overuse of “therapy speak”) but there has also been quite a lot of validation and meaningful conversations that have spawned from these overnight buzzwords. Case and point, “gramnesia.” Read the story Need help with a rude kid? Teachers share 9 ways to deal with kids who make rude comments. Parents, if your kid is acting rude, take some tips from the pros. Few things are more frightening for parents than raising a rude and entitled child. Younger kids just say whatever is on their minds, so you can change their behavior by letting them know that their words can hurt people’s feelings. But when kids get older and know better, many go through a phase where they challenge their parents and teachers by seeing how far they can push things by being inappropriate. Once kids are intentionally rude, you’ve got to nip it in the bud before it becomes an ingrained part of their personality. A group of teachers has come to the aid of anyone who wants tips on handling their child’s rude behavior. A teacher having difficulty dealing with rude students asked the teachers’ subforum for help and they shared many creative and effective ways to handle the situation. Read the story Javier Bardem shut down reporter’s ‘bad taste’ question about working with wife Penélope Cruz He only needed seven words to speak volumes. Spanish actors Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz met while filming “Jamón Jamón” in 1992, got married in secret in 2010, and have two children together. Bardem and Cruz have each earned Hollywood fame in their own right, winning numerous awards across the globe for their acting. They’ve also worked together several times in their careers in such movies as “Loving Pablo” in 2017 and “Everybody Knows” in 2018. But when a Cannes Film Festival reporter asked an inappropriate question about their working together after the latter film, Bardem shut it down in one sentence. Read the story Neuroscientist’s ‘color perception’ test will make you never see blue or green the same way again This is so much more than an optical illusion. A new test going viral online shows how very different we all are at perceiving color—especially when it comes to blue and green. Designed by neuroscientist Patrick Mineault, the “Is my blue your blue?” test shows where on the blue/green spectrum you perceive each color, and how that compares to the average percentage of other people who’ve taken the test. Read the story

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