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Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.

Raising kids shouldn’t be this hard.

The existence of love, trust, respect, and safety in a relationship is often dependent on moments you might write off as petty disagreements.

Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.

If where you live isn’t truly your home, and you have the resources to make a change, it could do wonders for your happiness.

Parents and adult children alike often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.

1. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, an action series starring Jude Law as a Force-user who encounters four lost children trying to get back home (premieres Monday on Disney+)

2. Y2K, a comedy-horror film directed by the Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney about machines and technology turning against humans in the year 2000 (in theaters Friday)

3. Havoc, a suspenseful novel by Christopher Bollen about an elderly widow whose past resurfaces when she meets a young mother and her son at a hotel (out Tuesday)

Oz persists primarily through the books’ many adaptations, which established the series’ enduring iconography. [The author L. Frank] Baum’s world is best remembered as it has appeared on-screen, especially in the 1939 musical film starring Judy Garland as Dorothy: a place bursting with songs such as “Over the Rainbow” and visuals such as the yellow brick road, which have become the franchise’s most memorable features. And with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’s 1956 entry into the public domain, allowing for new, noncanonical works, subsequent generations have iterated on these hallmarks to tell Oz stories of their own.

No transformation has been more vital to Oz’s longevity than Wicked.