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Now meet the child of your new love? ‘First coffee with ex from your partner’

Introducing a new love to your children, or meeting your partner’s child, is incredibly exciting. “You’re not just the new boyfriend or girlfriend, you’re going to be part of a stepfamily,” say these relationship therapists. Every child of divorced parents has one or two stepparents within five years, according to relationship therapist Patricia Heije. Such

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Now+ shoes out on the mat: no Dutch habit, but a clean

Indoors, you probably often walk around in socks, slippers, or barefoot. But do you also ask your visitors if they want to enter your house without shoes? Dutch people are not used to immediately taking off their shoes when they visit someone. So if you want that, you have to be direct, says etiquette expert

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Now+ why not every man can grow a full beard

Een volle baard: het kan heel veel voor je gezicht doen. Maar waarom lukt het niet elke man om een flinke baard te laten groeien? Een slappe sik, een kin vol stoppels, of een goed geoliede volle baard: het is eind 2024 en niemand kijkt raar op van een man met een baard. Maar het

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Now+ why you have to braid the hair of your children for swimming

Occasionally, gruesome stories emerge of children getting their hair stuck in swimming pool grates and drowning. Can you just plunge into any swimming pool? ‘Suction entrapment’ is a well-known term among swimming pool operators. Publicly accessible swimming pools in municipalities are subject to annual inspections, as stipulated in the Dutch Law on Hygiene and Safety

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Now+ home -made detergent: ‘You wax is not really clean’

Cheap, no big plastic bottles on the washing machine, your favorite scent included: making your own laundry detergent is popular. It fits in the trend of zero waste and sustainability. But what do your clothes and washing machine actually think of your homemade concoction? Soda with soap, borax with pine needles, soap flakes with baking

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Now+ nauseous in virtual reality? You can do this against it

The one can effortlessly walk around in virtual reality, while the other seems to get motion sick at the slightest movement. What can you do against motion sickness in virtual reality? Our brains can get confused by unnatural movements. If your eyes see something different from what your body feels, it can lead to you

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