🧠 The parenting tip that makes your grown kids want to visit

The best way to reconnect might be to zip it.

How do you keep post-move-out kids visiting your empty nest once they’ve sorted out how to do their own laundry? A lot of parents wrestle with the same question: How do I share my wisdom with someone who won’t stop by?

Well, that might be the issue. As Erik Barnes reports, therapists and psychiatrists agree: if you want better vibes and more visits, the secret is simple: stop giving unsolicited advice.

Instead of solving every problem, try being curious, validating, and cheering them on. Sometimes the best way to draw your kids closer is to stop coaching and just enjoy who they’ve become.

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💜 Let’s go crazy: How one fan helped bring Prince’s dream to the stage

Hold up... I'm a GOOD contributor! Am I supposed to be investing in musicals?

Craig Shapiro’s not just a venture capitalist. Besides being a former GOOD contributor (hi, Craig!), he’s a card-carrying member of the New Power Generation, a man who learned early that “life is just a party, and parties weren’t meant to last.” His first musical memory? A Purple Rain cassette on a summer beach trip, blasted by his too-cool older cousins.

Now he’s backing Purple Rain: The Musical, a Broadway-bound production that’s no fly-by-night, cash-grab cabaret. This thing’s fan-fueled and funk-certified, with two of Prince’s closest musical collaborators (Bobby Z. and Morris Hayes) keeping the legacy tight and the funk tighter. As Ryan Reed reports, it’s a stage adaptation made with reverence, not revenue, at its heart.

Launching first in Minneapolis (because of course), the show’s helmed by a Tony-nominated director, with a dream team handling the music, choreography, and sparkle. It’s a love letter, a jam session, and yes, maybe a little bit of healing rain. Because “we’re gathered here today to get through this thing called life,” and Prince might be the one thing we all still agree on.

Follow the link to learn more and see a sneak preview of the show before the party’s over, whoops, out of time.

And what did we learn?

Yesterday, we remembered Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist and world-renowned animal advocate. She was the first to discover something about chimps, and over 65% of our GOOD readers knew what it was. 

Jane was the first to document…

• Chimps laughing (2.2%)

• Chimps painting (3.4%)

• Chimps using tools (65.2%) ✅

• Chimps mourning their dead (29.2%)
  

⏱️ Scientists say the shortest day ever is weeks away, because of course it is

On the plus side, 2026 will be here that much sooner.

Feeling like the days are flying by? It isn’t your imagination. Earth’s rotation is speeding up and astrophysicists say we’re just weeks away from the shortest day ever recorded. That’s not just a metaphor for burnout. That’s a measurable, planetary fact.

According to reporting by Ryan Reed, scientists have clocked the Earth shaving milliseconds off its daily spin since 2025. It’s subtle enough that you don’t feel it, but precise enough that international timekeepers are considering chopping a literal second off the global calendar. (Yes, that’s a thing. It’s called a leap second. We might need a negative one.)

The Moon’s gravitational pull, ocean tides, planetary wobble, there’s a whole cosmic ballet at play here. And while the science is fascinating, the timing feels rude. 2025 is already doing the most. Now it’s stealing our time, too?

The real question is what happens when the body clock and the planet clock fall out of sync.

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