Q. My parents are getting older, and we’ve discussed having them move in with us. The recent tax change also makes it more necessary, so we have less taxes to pay between both households. more

A: Many adult children are called upon to help their aging parents as life changes set in, yet only 65 percent of siblings report talking about money with one another, according to research by … more

Lawrence School District Parent Teacher Association members learned more about what their role is and how to be more effective advocates at an in-house training session at the Broadway campus on Sept. 13. more

Ten years ago, Howard T. Herber Middle School teacher Marguerite Izzo found herself in the office of U.S. Sen. Carolyn McCarthy and began recounting her observations stemming from the No Child Left Behind Act. As she was talking, McCarthy yelled for an aide to grab a notebook and start writing. “I couldn’t believe someone cared,” said Izzo, adding that this was the beginning of legislation to involve teachers in writing federal education policy. “The legislation was introduced two or three times, but never got off the ground,” Izzo said. more

Baseball season is upon us, and over the past few weeks, Little Leaguers have taken the field, sporting brightly colored uniforms and freshly oiled gloves. The smell of the grass . . . more

The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB) recognized Mindy and Daniel Aryeh as the Rabbi Dr. Armin Friedman Parents of the Year at its 62and annual breakfast held at the Hewlett Bay Park campus of Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls last month. more

Grappling with an increase in anxiety among her patients and seeing countless news stories of bombings and terrorist attacks being reported, Cedarhurst resident and board certified psychologist Dr. Laurie Zelinger decided to write “Please Explain ‘Terrorism’ To Me: A Story for Children, P-E-A-R-L-S of Wisdom for their Parents” in November 2015 to make the topic more accessible to her clients and their families. more

Rebecca, 56, of Hewlett, said that when she told her children, who are all in their 20s, that she decided to seek a divorce a year and a half ago, their reaction was, “What took you so long?” more

The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant. Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up. And, he has found, it isn’t pretty. more

Summer driving season is in full swing, and we’re out on the roads in large numbers. The absence of winter’s dangers can make it seem like a safer time to drive . . . more