School & Learning

Choosing schools, paying for college, homeschooling, trade school and learning at any age.

Grown men make friends shoulder to shoulder

Texting "we should grab coffee sometime" has never once produced a friend. A Tuesday night league with a scoreboard does it in about six weeks.

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Third trimester signs that mean call now, not tomorrow

The symptoms worth waking someone up for, how to tell real labor from a long evening, and what to have settled before week 37.

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What should I wear to this?

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GuideOld SchoolDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The Garden That Fed a Family Was Smaller Than You Think

Six rows behind the garage, a sharp hoe and ten minutes after supper. What the old gardeners actually did, and how to copy it this season.

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Be a Man6 min read

Say the hard thing once, then be his friend again

The window is short, the speech is about three sentences long, and the part most men botch is what they do for the next month.

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What was your first ever job?

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Normal hemoglobin doesn't mean your iron is fine

The exhaustion that gets waved off as stress has a specific test, a specific number, and a correction that takes about three months.

GuideOld SchoolNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Nobody in That House Threw a Shirt Out Over a Button

Sew a button that outlives the shirt, darn a sock heel flat, and patch a knee so it holds - the whole mending basket, explained.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideBe a ManCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

What to say when your buddy's life comes apart

Skip "you good?" It's a question he can dodge, and he will. Say what you noticed instead, then plan to still be there on day twelve.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

What the hormone therapy panic got wrong, and what it didn't

The 2002 study that scared a generation off estrogen enrolled women with an average age of 63. That detail changed everything about how this is prescribed now.

GuideOld SchoolNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

He Asked in Person and Had Her Home by Ten

Our grandparents ran a dating system with rules, a plan and an end time. Most of it still works, and you can use it Friday.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideFamilyCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Decide your smoke number before the sky turns orange

When the air goes bad, you don't want to be negotiating at 7 a.m. about whether soccer practice is still on. Set the rules while the air is clean.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The autoimmune gap is real and it starts on the X chromosome

Roughly four out of five people with an autoimmune condition are women. What's driving that, and how to get diagnosed without losing four years to it.

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GuideOld SchoolDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

How To Keep A Car Twenty Years The Way My Grandfather Did

He drove the same truck for two decades on cheap oil, a spiral notebook and a garden hose. None of it was complicated, and all of it still works.

GuideFamilyCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The first week after your father's stroke

What to ask, who to talk to, how to split the days, and the paperwork you'll wish somebody had found on night one.

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The six-week check isn't a pelvic floor plan

Leaking, heaviness, a core that won't fire back up. Common after birth, and none of it is something you're supposed to just live with.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

Old School5 min

The Handshake Was the Contract and It Usually Held

BRO Seniors6 min

How to hand down tools, land and heirlooms without a fight

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20267 min

Get the bone scan, then go lift something heavy

Osteoporosis has no symptoms until something breaks. The scan takes ten minutes, and the fix involves a barbell.

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Country Bro6 min read

Pick the Dog for the Job, Then Teach It to Stop

A pup out of working parents is two years from useful, so choose the right kind of dog, start on broke stock, and put the brakes on before anything else.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

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