Of course, the brand remains a hot ticket, as do the various iterations of Fingerlings that parents can buy. And just time for the holidays, there’s a new Fingerling in town: The Pixie Belle. Like her brethen, Pixie Belle is a wearable pet. She looks like a cross between a unicorn, a lemur, and an…owl? She reacts to touch, motion, and sound and comes with three play modes: Nurture, spin, and dance....
Oh, and there are giant alien sandworms that jump out of a desert planet. If you’re new to the Dune hype; welcome. Your older kids are gonna love it, and you’re gonna love it, too. On September 9, Twitter Movies debuted the Dune trailer after Stephen Colbert interviewed the entire cast and director Denis Villeneuve, before debuting the first full trailer for Dune. And again, whether you’re a big fan of the books, or not, this trailer will rock you....
Walton Document Bag This bag is pretty bare bones, with a 15-inch laptop compartment, detachable strap, and two interior pockets. It’s probably not big enough to carry all of the stuff you need to have on you every day, but at $79, a whopping $219 off its normal price, you can afford to pick one up for occasional use. Buy Now $79 Buckner Messenger You can’t go wrong with a leather bag, so no matter which version — dark brown, black, or the rich “black cherry” — of this messenger you choose you’ll have done well....
My kids won’t clean their playroom and it’s driving me nuts. I’ve tried everything: We did a toy jail and they didn’t care (and also, it didn’t solve the pillows and couch cushions thrown everywhere). We tried docking allowance and they didn’t care. I went to Lowes and bought a bunch of organizers and spent an entire Saturday cleaning and organizing the room top-to-bottom and by noon on Sunday it was a disaster again — with blankets dragged in off their bed to make a fort and all their toys piled in the fort, and crumbs from their snacks all over the place....
The five albums nominated this year are clever, entertaining, educational and teach kids about the world around them. On Sunday night, Falu, Tim Kubart, The Pop Ups, Frank & Deane or Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats will walk away with a Grammy for Best Children’s Album. Some of the songs on these albums are so catchy that you might find yourself listening to them when your kids aren’t around....
He was a dedicated father of three who probably destroyed on the #dadjoke front. (You can get a sense of his parenting style from his kids’ memoirs, such as My Life With Groucho by his son Arthur, and Love, Groucho, by daughter Miriam.) But his best (and now dated) zingers were mostly saved for his ex-wives. Here’s the collected wisdom, but mostly wit, of Groucho: On Marriage “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?...
“Their relationship was incredibly intense. It was passionate, and it was a love relationship,” Rowling said during the ‘Distinctly Dumbledore’ feature. “But as happens in any relationship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on it, one never knows really what the other person is feeling. You can’t know, you can believe you know. So I’m less interested in the sexual side – though I believe there is a sexual dimension to this relationship – than I am in the sense of the emotions they felt for each other, which ultimately is the most fascinating thing about all human relationship....
Despite Styles having released this song initially in 2019, and Richard Brautigan having published the novel in 1968, the song “Watermelon Sugar,” is suddenly the number 1 song on the Billboard Charts in the US. This means if you were a spring-breaker, this would make “Watermelon Sugar” the song of the summer. If you listen to the lyrics and watch the video, this seems like a pretty innocent (and shallow?...
My kids (3, and 6) fight. And fight. And fight. And fight. I act as the moderator to settle skirmishes over stolen stuffies and crayons and there’s just a lot of stealing going on. I say it’s wrong to steal. But they don’t listen. They just give in to their time-out or whatever and plot their next battle. It makes coming home awful. It makes being at home awful. It has split the family apart, honestly....
What can be done to reduce the risk of airborne transmission inside a car? It’s important to have good ventilation. This means you get as much outside air as possible to mix with the air inside the cabin and then flush it out. You can do this in a couple of ways. One is by turning on the heating system, which takes in fresh air from outside, and opening windows through which it can be flushed out....
Before the 1998 NBA All-Star game, Michael Jordan shot the shit with his Eastern Conference teammates. It would be his final All-Star appearance as a Chicago Bull, but the topic of conversation isn’t All-Star weekends past or the goings-on in the NBA that year. Instead, Jordan shared his thoughts on the 19-year-old Laker making his All-Star game debut that night. Kobe Bryant might have been the youngest player in the NBA at the time, but a clip from the fifth episode of The Last Dance proves that he’d earned the attention of the best player in the league....
The Zoom In looks like a standard Hot Wheel’s car that got its middle carved out. In it’s place is a square slot where the GoPro Hero Session or Hero5 Session cameras snap into place. It’s secured by a bar, where it remains stable enough to snag video of the car’s sick stunts. Here’s some video GoPro x Lego grabbed of a Zoom rocketing down a beach-side course. Seeing the car from this perspective is really fun, as it makes standard courses seem like mini rollercoaster tracks....
Altmann noted to USA Today that any food that’s “large, round and solid” can be dangerous for children to consume. Hotdogs make the top of the list because they are, as the USDA’s Infant Nutrition and Feeding guide notes, “exactly the size of a child’s airway and can easily wedge in there.” To avoid choking, parents should cut up their kids’ hotdogs lengthwise first, then again into smaller pieces. The AAP also recommends all foods for young children be cut into half-inch pieces or smaller....
A combination of ridiculously high lumber prices, low housing stock, and pent-up demand to move led to a complete crunch in the housing market, particularly in the United States, as the costs of single-family homes entered the stratosphere and various anecdotal news stories about houses receiving dozens of offers after being placed on the market for minutes flooded the airwaves. But it looks like, per CNBC and data from the U....
Looking at guilt from a cultural perspective, it’s easy to see that it works in even outside the parental realm. What keeps people from parking in a parking spot reserved for disabled adults isn’t just the stiff fine, it’s also the guilt associated with the act. That makes guilt an incredibly prosocial emotion to have. In order to feel guilt, a person has to understand how their behavior has affected another person for worse....
This is just one of many misconceptions people have about what porn does to men’s brains, Prause says. As the founder of Liberos, a biotech company that researches sexual psychophysiology and affective neuroscience extensively, she set these myths straight in a conversation with Fatherly. How is it possible male and female brains respond similarly to porn, when the actual responses of men and women to porn are clearly different? What’s the disconnect?...
The survey looked at 1,807 parents ages 18 and older (with children under 18) in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. While only 4 percent of parents reported spanking often, as many as one in 6 resorted to it at least some of the time. Researchers found that there was somewhat of a racial divide, with 32 percent of black parents, 19 percent of hispanic parents, and 13 percent of white parents raising their hands....
RELATED: The Real Cost of Giving Birth in the U.S. Currently, the cost of giving birth in the U.S. is higher than it’s ever been — and higher than it is anywhere else. According to data from the national, independent, nonprofit organization FAIR Health, the national average charge for a vaginal delivery is $12,290, and the national average charge for a C-section is $16,907 (without insurance). That’s 40 and 60 percent higher, respectively, than the next country — Switzerland....
The FMLA was enacted in 1993 (progressive!) and guarantees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for reasons including the birth or adoption of a kid. Recently, a Supreme Court decision supporting same-sex couples extended the leave protections to both lesbians and gay men, who’ve also been known to have jobs. Here’s how the FMLA works: As long as you’ve been a full-time or part-time employee, at a company with 50 employees within a 75 mile radius, and have worked there at least 1,250 hours within 12 months prior to your leave request, you’re totally golden....
“For younger infants, we worry if this involves the lungs or does this need the ears checked,” says Chicago-based pediatrician Dr. Shelly Vaziri Flais, author of Raising Twins: Parenting Multiples From Pregnancy Through the School Years. “Any child of any age with a fever for more than 48 hours should be evaluated by the pediatrician. In a young infant – birth to 3 months – we consider a temperature of 100....
