No Stupid Questionsis a PEOPLE series that provides expert answers to your toughest (and funniest, and most embarrassing) parenting questions. Check out morehereand send yours toNoStupidQs@peoplemag.com. The introductory period might not be easy at first, says Dr. Carol Osborne ofChagrin Falls Veterinary Center in Ohio, but it’s manageable, and in her experience, always ends well. “I’ve never seen a situation where it hasn’t worked out,” she says. Dr. Osborne suggests tweaking your pet’s environment in small ways from basically the moment you find out you’re expecting....

No Stupid Questionsis a PEOPLE series that provides expert answers to your toughest (and funniest, and most embarrassing) parenting questions. Check out morehereand send yours toNoStupidQs@peoplemag.com. One of the conversations parents most dread having with their kids is about finances. Whether it’s because it’s difficult to make engaging, it feels taboo, the parent doesn’t feel they understand the topic sufficiently to teach their child about it or the parent doesn’t feel their finances are in order enough to give lessons, it’s a topic that is frequently not taught early enough – or thoroughly enough – and leads to further generations dealing with financial illiteracy....

This post contains spoilers from HBO Max’sFriends: The Reunionspecial.It’s safe to say HBO Max’sFriendsreunion specialwas full of surprises — and we’re not just talking about thebehind-the-scenes detailsthat were spilled.When the special’s premiere date was announced earlier this month, it was revealed that several celebrities would be making appearances alongside former cast membersJennifer Aniston(Rachel Green),Courteney Cox(Monica Geller),Lisa Kudrow(Phoebe Buffay),Matt LeBlanc(Joey Tribbiani),Matthew Perry(Chandler Bing) andDavid Schwimmer(Ross Geller). And fromLady GagatoDavid BeckhamtoMalala Yousafzai, the nearly two-hour episode boasts quite the range of stars....

“You have to say the words ‘I’m sorry.’ His first apology was a non-apology,” says Howard Bragman, a longtime crisis manager andfounder of La Brea Media. “I thought he handled it badly. It felt really insincere and sincerity counts. If you’re going to make an apology, own it, be sincere and do it.” “If he had apologized in the first place, it would be behind him, he would be beyond this and he would be hosting,” says Bragman....

Lady Louise Windsoris carrying on one her late grandfatherPrince Philip’s greatest passions. Just days after attending the Service of Thanksgiving honoringPrince Philipnearly a year after his death at age 99, 18-year-old Louisecompeted in the British Indoor Carriage Driving Championships. The daughter of Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex took sixth place in the junior novice division. Lady Louise is clearly devoted to the sport — she’s also competed in the Royal Windsor Horse Show —following in the footsteps of Prince Philip, who competed well into his 80s before opting for more leisurely rides until the final months of his life....

Swanson on the family’s Busload of Books tour.Photo: Courtesy In late August, author/illustrator husband and wife team Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr took off from their Maryland home in a colorful school bus-turned-RV with their four kids, now ages 6 to 15, and family dog for a year-long journey to bring books to underserved children in every state and Washington, D.C. To date, their “Busload of Books Tour” has visited more than 45 elementary schools, where the couple gives presentations on how they make books and gifts every student a hardcover title (thanks to donors)....

Femita Ayanbeku.Photo: Yuchen Liao/Getty There was a time when Femita Ayanbeku worried desperately about what people thought about her. She wore long pants year-round to cover her prosthetic and kept it on even when it caused her pain. Ayanbeku lost her right leg in a car accident when she was 11, and for years she tried, at her own expense, to make everyone else feel comfortable with her disability....

Sochi , Russia , the host city of next month ’s Winter Olympics , is nothing close to cold right now . The temperature hovers at a very soft 55 degrees which means it ’s very far from freeze which entail it ’s very far from snowing . But . Like . Um . You kind of need blow to host a Winter Olympics . So Sochi enlist the help of snow machines to get man made snow spewed for the games ....

Released on Jan. 10, the Duke of Sussex’s book included jarring allegations, fromPrince William’salleged physical assaulton his younger brother to damaging press leaks within the family. “This is all so ghastly,” a royal insider tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “Although there is sorrow because the Queen has died, the coronation should be a joyful moment, too, because Charles will be crowned. But this is a massive shadow.” The royal family hasn’t publicly commented on Prince Harry’s book, with Prince William, 40,ignoring shouted questions from the mediaduring a Jan....

Photo: Teresa Castracane Twenty miles north of Washington, D.C., a tale as old as time feels refreshingly new. “I hate that I keep saying I could have never imagined, but really — I could have never imagined it,“Jade Jones, who stars as Belle inOlney Theatre Center’s production ofBeauty and the Beast, tells PEOPLE of playing their first lead role. In fact, before starring as Belle, Jones had never even shared a kiss with a male actor onstage....

The only affair worse than paying out the tuchus forunreliableinternet from Time Warner Cable and Comcast is being force pay a monthly rental fee for a modem you ask to get at that icky cyberspace . well-chosen New Year ! The fees on both TWC and Comcast are work up yet again . Here ’s how to buy your own modem so you may save some money . Yup , correctly in the middle of the vacation , both TWC and Comcast announced that the monthly fee for rent their modems would be going up ....

Photo: Bangor Daily News In April 2017, the phones at Erin French’s Maine restaurant,The Lost Kitchen, wouldn’t stop ringing. “Reservations got out of control. We couldn’t handle it anymore,” French, whose memoirFinding Freedomwas released in 2021, told PEOPLE. “Our phone lines just exploded. Everything just broke down.” After the hectic 2017 year, French — whose cookbook,Big Heart Little Stove, is set to be released on Oct. 31, 2023 — decided to ask people to send a postcard to be entered into a table lottery....

Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Uniom tomorrow , addressing a beleaguered nation tired of public , easily - avoidable fuckups on the man stage . fortuitously the invitations mailed out for the event were free of basic spelling fault . Republicans may have to call back all State of the Union tag because they say " Uniom " not " Union , " per two Dem aides.pic.twitter.com/FosSnznIHp...