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Five years ago, I was a mom to a newborn and a 2-year-old. I struggled with postpartum depression, sleep deprivation, and was worn out from being needed all the time.

I felt guilty that I found it so hard, and I dreamed of a time when it wouldn't be.

When people said things like, "Enjoy every moment, it goes by fast," it felt like a punch to the gut.

In a recent viral video on TikTok, Jordan Peterson a controversial psychologist, author, YouTube personality, and fathers'-rights advocate says in a voice-over: "You have little kids for four years, and if you miss it, it's done."

That's exactly what I struggled with, but now that my kids are older, I want other moms who are struggling like I did to know that our kids are fun past their 4th birthday.

When my kids were little, I felt guilty for wanting time away from them. I felt shamed by some moms with older kids who ignored my struggles and instead told me, "It'll be over before you know it."

Every day seemed to drag. I wanted to create magical moments for my kids but struggled to do that through my depression and exhaustion.

Now that my kids are 5 and 7, I get to sit at the dinner table and talk and laugh at their jokes. I get a front-row seat to their ideas, hopes, and dreams. They can communicate their needs more effectively and they can keep up on family hikes. They are so much more independent and a joy to be around.

Because of all this, I felt compelled to create my own version of the Peterson video on TikTok. I wanted to give a different perspective to parents who might be struggling as I did in the early years.

This is the text I wrote to go with the video:"You have little kids for four years.And if you miss it Well, you won't miss it, because chances are you're with those babies all day and all night and you know little else in those years.

You have sacrificed your time, your body, your career, your energy, and likely your mental health to create a loving and full life for them.

Of course, you want to enjoy as many moments as possible, but the reality is, those four years are some of the hardest, exhausting, patience-testing years, and sometimes you're just surviving.

You're already acutely aware of how precious it is and constantly reminded how fast it goes. You already feel the pressure to make it great and feel guilty for the things you do and don't do.

Of course, you want to make the best of it, but when you lack sleep and space for yourself, it makes it incredibly difficult to soak in.

And while you might look back and miss those little years and mourn what you were not able to fully experience due to the stresses of it all, you will remember the beauty of it all without the sheer exhaustion.

And you'll know you did your very best, despite how hard it was. And you'll have so many more years to look forward to with them. It doesn't end after 4."

Within minutes of hitting "post," I started getting thousands of responses from moms around the world thanking me and sharing how triggered the original video made them feel: shame, guilt, and pressure.

As a mom, I want to be seen, to be heard, and to be validated when I say, "This is hard." I worry that I am not enough, no matter how hard I try. Raising kids is incredibly difficult, but being made to feel like you've lost your chance if you don't nail it in the first four years makes it even harder. I needed something different than the "you'll miss it" narrative.

I needed support, not more pressure.

Libby Ward is an anti-mom-shamer and mental-health advocate on a mission to change the narrative of what it means to be a "good mom." Known as the "honest mom" to her social-media community, she is a content creator, public speaker, and storyteller breaking cycles of all kinds, one piece of content at a time.

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Patrick Peterson

Leave the decision up to him, and cornerback Patrick Peterson wants to return to the Minnesota Vikings for the 2022 season.

But the teams new leadership has to ask first.

Peterson has reiterated a couple of times this offseason his longing to remain with the Vikings after a relatively successful 2021 campaign. He tabulated a 63.0 grade from Pro Football Focus last season, acting as the most consistent cornerback on the roster. Cameron Dantzler was in the Mike Zimmer doghouse for a couple of months, Bashaud Breeland was erratic (in more ways than one), Mackensie Alexander struggled, and Jeff Gladney was cut before the season began.

On his podcast this week, Peterson said on his future with the Vikings:

I stand where I stood in December. I loved everything about Minnesota. At the end of the day, the balls in their court now if they want me back.

So, it sounds like Minnesota basically needs to pick up the phone, assuming it wants the soon-to-be 32-year-old cornerback back in 2022.

Minnesota should absolutely want Peterson back because the CB room as of early March is skimpy. The depth chart consists of Cameron Dantzler, Kris Boyd, and Harrison Hand. Outside of Dantzler if he continues to develop at his current pace that is not a fieldable batch of cornerbacks in the modern NFL.

As a result, most mocks draft predict the Vikings select a cornerback like Ahmad Gardner or Derek Stingley Jr. in Aprils draft. The selection of either of those men would blend best player available and team need for Minnesota with the 12th overall pick.

Peterson made humongous news when he signed with the Vikings in 2021 on Saint Patricks Day, no less as no fans or pundits even realized he was on the teams radar or vice-versa. However, Peterson sought to play for former coach Mike Zimmer, so the team readily obliged.

Now, Kevin OConnell is in charge, an offensive-minded coach. OConnell hired Ed Donatell to lead the defense in 2022, shifting to a 3-4 scheme after decades of 4-3 systems for the Vikings.

Finally, on Tuesday, the Vikings signed linebacker Jordan Hicks from you guessed it the Arizona Cardinals, Petersons old stomping grounds. The two played together for a couple of seasons in the desert. That move cannot hurt the realism of Peterson re-joining the Vikings.

Plus, there are Chander-Jones-to-Minnesota rumors, as well.

Peterson also mentioned on his show other teams have inquired about his free agency.

Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2007. His YouTube Channel, VikesNow, debuts in March 2022. He hosts a podcast with Bryant McKinnie, which airs every Wednesday with Raun Sawh and Sally from Minneapolis. His Viking fandom dates back to 1996. Listed guilty pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, The Sopranos, and The Doors (the band).

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A pop star performs and a conservative lecturer speaks, both at The Viv while Real Salt Lake returns home.

(Def Jam Recordings) Justin Bieber is scheduled to perform on his "Justice" tour at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Sunday, March 13, 2022.

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March 13

Hard to believe its been 12 years since Justin Bieber, then a 16-year-old sensation, released his first EP, My World. Bieber, now 28, is on tour, behind his 2021 album Justice. Bieber performs Sunday at Vivint Smart Home Arena, starting at 7:30 p.m. Jaden, To? and Eddie Benjamin will open. The show is mostly sold out, but resale tickets (starting at $300 each) are available at TicketMaster.com.

March 17

Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has amassed a conservative following through his books, YouTube videos, and appearances on such platforms as Joe Rogans podcast. (His claims on Rogan against climate change modeling were stunningly ignorant and a word salad of nonsense, according to scientists quoted in The Guardian.) Hell speak Thursday, 7:30 p.m., at Vivint Smart Home Arena; tickets are $59.50 and higher, at TicketMaster.com.

March 19

Real Salt Lake will return to Rio Tinto Stadium to face Nashville SC in Major League Soccer play. Its Reals second home match of the season and the March 5 opener was marked by a two-hour-plus weather delay and snow on the pitch. The match starts at 7:30 p.m.; go to realsaltlake.com for the link to buy tickets, starting at $15.

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We have not yet finished the first week of NFL free agency, but the Arizona Cardinals have not done much. They have re-signed several of their own players and added one player from outside the organization.

It is still early and they could still sign several players, but it appears that they are willing to lean on some youth in key roles.

Which young players appear to be on their way to a prominent role this coming season, barring other moves in free agency?

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The Cardinals have not made any moves on the offensive line, which makes it appear that they are willing to roll with Jones and Justin Murray.

Kliff Kingsbury is already on the record as saying they are expecting a lot from Jones in 2022.

He played guard for the first time and had plenty of ups and downs.

Moore had a limited role as a rookie because of the receivers ahead of him on the depth chart. As of right now, he is slated to be the Cardinals No. 2 receiver after DeAndre Hopkins.

Even if they add someone to play the Z like A.J. Green last season, Moore will at least be WR3.

After being inactive his entire rookie season, he had a few opportunities to play last season and showed there is some potential. As of right now, with the re-signing of James Conner and the departure of Chase Edmonds, he is slated to be the No. 2 running back.

He has some of the same skills and abilities that Edmonds has, so they could be counting on him to be the guy to spell Conner.

Of course, this is still early.

Lawrence has already had a prominent role and was a starter for much of the season. However, with Jordan Phillips gone, the starting defensive line appears to be set with J.J. Watt, Zach Allen and Lawrence.

If you havent caught it from comments about Lawrence by the coaches, they really, really like him.

He just has to stay healthy.

The Cardinals went and released Jordan Hicks, whom Collins was supposed to supplant in the starting lineup as a rookie. Hicks didnt let that happen and Collins saw his playing time and role decrease over the course of the season.

With Hicks gone, the job is Collins to lose.

The Cardinals already relied heavily upon Simmons last season, as he played over 90% of the teams defensive snaps. He was used in a variety of roles.

He again will be called upon to do a lot.

He was already counted on as a rookie to be a starter. He struggled late in the year. But it appears they will roll with him again. Robert Alford, Antonio Hamilton and Kevin Peterson are all free agents. The Cardinals signed Jeff Gladney.

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The Maryland Court of Appeals will consider whether a general prohibition on judges telling prospective or sitting jurors that prosecutors need not present scientific evidence to prove a defendants guilt applies to criminal convictions reached before the high court issued its general ban about a dozen years ago.

The court this month agreed to hear Antonio McGhees argument that his first-degree murder conviction before the announced general prohibition should nevertheless be overturned because the trial judge asked prospective jurors if they could find a defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt without forensic evidence placing him at the crime scene.

McGhee has also argued that his trial attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to the judges question, which was akin to one the high court deemed improper in a later case.

In response, the Maryland Attorney Generals Office urged the high court in vain to deny McGhees request for its review, saying the courts rulings do not apply retroactively. Because the rulings did not apply to McGhees trial, his counsels decision not to object to the judges question cannot be deemed ineffective assistance based on the law at that time, the state added.

The Court of Appeals consideration of McGhees appeal marks the first time it will directly confront whether its two 2011 decisions generally barring judges from telling would-be and impaneled jurors that scientific evidence is not needed to prove the states case apply retroactively.

The court ruled such a comment from a trial judge likely tilts the scales of justice in favor of the prosecution in cases in which it lacks forensic evidence.

Judges in the early 2000s often felt compelled to ask or instruct jurors on the issue of forensic evidence in the belief that they as a result of watching television crime dramas had grown to expect the state to prove its case with DNA and rule against the prosecution if it did not present forensic evidence.

This expectation of jurors has been dubbed the CSI effect in recognition of the popular show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which featured forensic investigators.

But in Stabb v. Maryland, the Court of Appeals overturned a mans sexual-assault conviction, saying the judges instruction that the jury disregard the lack of DNA evidence had unfairly undercut a key argument of the defense. And In Atkins v. Maryland, the court struck down jury instructions similar to those in McGhees case when the judge asked prospective jurors during voir dire if they could still convict someone in the absence of forensic evidence.

In his successful request for high court review, McGhee stated through counsel that Stabb and Atkins apply retroactively to his 2007 conviction because the two decisions did not create a new right but merely applied a defendants existing right to a fair trial to a set of facts: the questions and instructions a judge renders to jurors.

Atkins and Stabb did not announce a new constitutional or statutory rule; instead this Court (of Appeals) merely applied settled federal and state constitutional guarantees to a new and different factual situation, wrote Assistant Maryland Public Defender Allison P. Brasseaux. Accordingly, under well-settled retroactivity law, which states that a case that does not announce a new principle applies to all convictions, final or not, Atkins and Stabb apply to Mr. McGhees ineffective assistance of counsel claim, even though his convictions were final before those decisions issued.

In its unsuccessful request that the court deny McGhees review petition, the state said trial counsels failure to object was not ineffective in light of the pre-Atkins and Stabb case law in effect at the time of trial.

Counsel in 2007 could not have anticipated that the law would, over the course of the next decade, evolve to disapprove of a CSI-effect voir dire question, Assistant Maryland Attorney General Virginia S. Hovermill wrote. Indeed, under the law, counsel was not required to do so.

The Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments in June and expected to render its decision by Aug. 31 in Antonio McGhee v. State of Maryland, No. 64, September Term 2021.

McGhee was charged in the March 17, 2007, shooting death of Keith Dreher outside a pizzeria in Prince Georges County.

Prior to McGhees trial, Prince Georges County Circuit Judge James J. Lombardi asked prospective jurors, Does any member of this panel believe that the state has got to present fingerprint evidence, DNA, blood sample evidence, ballistic evidence, any scientific evidence in order to convince you of the defendants guilt? In other words, do you think the state has a requirement to do that in all cases?

Trial counsel did not object, a failure Brasseaux said doomed McGhees defense by essentially excusing the prosecutions lack of forensic evidence in a case based largely on the testimony of one eyewitness who had identified McGhee in a photo array but later recanted his identification.

McGhee was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2008.

He moved for post-conviction relief in 2014 in light of the high courts rulings in Atkins and Stabb.

Prince Georges County Circuit Judge Beverly J. Woodard ruled for McGhee and on June 11, 2020, ordered a new trial. But the Court of Special Appeals reversed Woodards decision in an unreported opinion last November, prompting McGhee to seek review by the high court.

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