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By Rick Lovett Apr 21, 2021 Every parent knows the vital importance of good sleep—for us, yes, but especially for our kids. Adults don’t like to be exhausted but we can, for the most part, power through our day on less-than-adequate sleep. Our kids, however, cannot. Their growing bodies rely on good sleep for their mental and physical health, their ability to focus and be successful in school, their overall behavior, and their capacity to regulate their emotions. Even so, you may have n...

By Rick Lovett Apr 21, 2021 Every parent knows the vital importance of good sleep—for us, yes, but especially for our kids. Adults don’t like to be exhausted but we can, for the most part, power through our day on less-than-adequate sleep. Our kids, however, cannot. Their growing bodies rely on good sleep for their mental and physical health, their ability to focus and be successful in school, their overall behavior, and their capacity to regulate their emotions. Even so, you may have n...

By Rick Lovett Apr 21, 2021 Every parent knows the vital importance of good sleep—for us, yes, but especially for our kids. Adults don’t like to be exhausted but we can, for the most part, power through our day on less-than-adequate sleep. Our kids, however, cannot. Their growing bodies rely on good sleep for their mental and physical health, their ability to focus and be successful in school, their overall behavior, and their capacity to regulate their emotions. Even so, you may have n...

Phil Bray/Netflix   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Sunday’s NBC telecast of the “Golden Globes” awards (8 p.m., WPXI-TV) includes a few ties to Pittsburgh, including Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit.” Former Pittsburgher Susan Schulman, a New York-based literary agent, represented the estate of Walter Tevis, author of the 1983 novel of the same name that was the basis for the Netflix show, which ...

Children turning into apples: Imagine U Storytime’s latest installment February 23, 2021 That’s what the children in “Wayside School vs. Ms. Gorf” have to figure out. The story, produced by Communication senior Matthew Threadgill, is the latest installment in the Imagine U Storytime series hosted by the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. The storytimes, which were introduced at the pandemic’s onset, are short videos geared toward children put on by theatre studen...

The 2020 Robbie Awards celebrate dragons, cyber-kids, rock’n’roll and more. 12:00 pm, Jan. 20, 2021 × For the third year in a row, I present the Robbie Awards, recognizing the best books I read last year. In many areas of life, 2020 wasn’t an award-worthy year. But at least, being cooped up at home gave me time to read 80 books. Here are some of the best. Critic’s Choice I’m the critic. In my critical opinion, the most satisfying literary creation of my year in books was �...