INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Tensions between parents and adult children often revolve around different ideas about lifestyle, financial choices, or decisions about running a household or raising your own children. While unsolicited advice can be irritating, try to find ways to understand your parent’s point of view and find constructive solutions to problems together. For example, if your parent suggests something that you don't agree with, try asking for more information. Understanding what motivates a suggestion can build empathy and show that you value their perspective, even if you aren't going to do exactly what they say. As you move into middle age, you have many relationships and demands on your attention. Your aging parents might be more lonely and want a closer connection. Frequent contact is beneficial to both of you. When you feel love for your parents, say so. After many years, you may take it for granted that your parents know that you love them. But expressing your love explicitly will build the connection between you. Many parents help their adult children, whether financially or with gifts of time or other resources. Remember to let them know that their help matters to you. Look for ways to reciprocate by helping with tasks that may become more difficult as they get older or by offering emotional and financial support when appropriate.

SUMMARY: Accommodate differences of opinion. Keep reaching out. Say thank you.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: This is the only way you'll know if they've read your message.  If your outgoing messages are blue, the person can receive iMessages. If outgoing messages are green, the person is using a non-iMessage phone or tablet (usually an Android). You won't be able to see when this person has read your messages. As long as you and your contact both have enabled this feature, you’ll be able to see when you’ve read each others’ messages. If only you have it on, they'll see when you read their messages, but you won't know when they read yours. Here’s how to turn on read receipts:  Open your iPhone’s Settings. Scroll down and tap Messages. Slide the “Send Read Receipts” switch to the On (green) position. iMessages are sent over the internet, so make sure you’re connected to Wi-Fi or your mobile network. If you’re not online, your message will be sent as a regular SMS and you won’t know when it’s been read. It’s a green and white chat bubble icon typically at the bottom of the home screen. Make sure you see “iMessage” in the typing area. This means you’re connected to the internet and the person you’re writing can receive iMessages. When you send an iMessage, you’ll see the word “Delivered” below when the message has been sent. If the recipient has read receipts on, you’ll see “Read” below the message.

SUMMARY: Make sure the person you’re texting is also using iMessages. Turn on read receipts. Connect to the internet. Open Messages. Write or reply to a message. Send the message. Wait for a read receipt.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The worst possible position to be in if you are trying to hold your poop is to squat. Sitting isn’t as good for holding your poop in as standing or lying down is, either.  The reason for this is because squatting has long been defined by researchers as the ideal position for defecation. That’s because it applies pressure on the abdomen, encouraging release of the stool. Standing will remove some of the pressure from the abdomen. So will lying down. Even just shifting your position a bit can also help you keep the poop where you want it to stay inside your body until you have a chance to get to a toilet. If you must sit, shift your position in the chair. Pressing your buttocks against a hard area - like a metal chair bottom - might help. Basically, what you are accomplishing here is to apply pressure on the upcoming poop to keep it inside the body. Yes, it's really the best way to do it!  Clenching your butt cheeks will tense your rectum, and, thus, it helps to keep the poop inside. It’s harder to hold in poop if your muscles around your rectum are weak. If your nerves are damaged in that area, you might not even know a stool has come out. See a doctor in such cases. Basically you want to poop before you end up at the place where it will be hard to poop. It’s a good idea to do this to activate the bowels so you empty them. Think ahead!  For example, many long-distance runners face this issue. They feel like they have to poop during the race. Another way to avoid this embarrassing problem is to simply avoid foods high in fiber before the race or event because that causes the need to poop. Gas-producing foods like beans, bran, fruit and salad could also cause the need to have a bowel movement. Try to avoid eating any food within two hours of the event, though, or you will have another bowel movement. There are some studies that have linked coffee drinking to having to poop. Although this is by no means definitively proven, if you drink coffee while trying to hold in poop you will probably have to pee too.  It will be harder to hold in poop if you’ve had no previous defecation that day. One study found that coffee provoked pooping more so in people who hadn’t already pooped. The study also found that the effect was more pronounced in the morning.

SUMMARY: Try standing up to keep in your poop (or, alternatively, lying down). Tense your butt cheeks as much as you can. Try to encourage a bowel movement several hours before your event, and then stop eating. Try not to drink coffee.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you've got an add-on or toolbar installed that you don't want to use anymore, you can remove it from Chrome. Add-ons in Chrome are referred to as "extensions". Click the Menu button (☰), select Tools → Extensions. This will open a new tab with a list of all your installed extensions. You can scroll if you have too many add-ons to see on one screen. Confirm that you want to remove the add-on by clicking Remove. After disabling the add-on, you will need to uninstall the add-on software from your computer. You can do this from the Windows program manager.  Open the Control Panel. You can access the Control Panel from the Start menu. Windows 8 users can press Ctrl+X and select Control Panel from the menu. Select "Add/Remove Programs" or "Programs and Features". Find the add-on in the list of installed programs. The full list of programs may take a few moments to load. Select the add-on and click Uninstall. The Uninstall button is located at the top of the list. If you can't get the toolbar to go away, chances are it's malicious and will require some extra work to delete. See this guide for detailed instructions.

SUMMARY:
Open the add-on manager. Find the add-on you want to remove. Click the trash can icon to delete the add-on. Uninstall the add-on. Use antimalware software to remove stubborn toolbars.