Unsurprisingly, Starbursts are a nationwide favorite, and the most popular choice in Texas, South Carolina, North Dakota, Iowa and Georgia and Alabama. Crunch bars take the top slot in California, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina. Kit Kats are sought after in Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada and Washington. The breakdown between chocolate-based candy and fruit-flavored candies is, interestingly, an even split, with 25 states preferring chocolate and the other 25 chomping on the non-chocolate stuff....

The four-minute clip tells an abbreviated version of Mike and Sulley trying to get a little girl they nickname Boo back into the human world after she accidentally ends up in Monstropolis done in the animation style of old-timey classics like Disney’s own Steamboat Willie. The dialogue is shown in text on the screen and there’s even a throwback piano score over the entire thing that will make you feel like you hopped into a time machine to a movie theater back in the roaring ’20s....

To be fair, the idea is to teach kids to work with such electronic devices as lights, motor, interrupters, voice box and batteries to create electrical circuits. Interestingly, this upsetting rendition is seemingly closer to the original toy’s inception. Four years before Tickle Me Elmo blew up, he was actually Tickle Me Chimp, then later Tickle Me Taz, after the Tasmanian Devil. That guy’s probably balding, too, as he hasn’t been in the spotlight for some time....

“I think there’s a lot of action on Star Trek going on around me,” Notaro tells Fatherly. “There are moments where the ship gets jolted or something. At one point I had to fall on a mattress, and that was the extent of my really big action work unless I’m forgetting something. But flying the helicopter on Army of the Dead — that felt way more in the action than I am on Star Trek....

RELATED: These ’80s Toys Are Worth Way More Than You Think While the seventies is remembered now as a fabulously dated era of toy gimmicks (stunt cycles, flashy paint, etc.), the decade also marked a cultural shift in how toys were marketed to kids. “It was the first time you saw advertisers go after kids instead of their parents,” says toy expert Mark Bellomo, who’s written books on Star Wars and other popular toy franchises including Transformers....

It’s one thing to identify areas that you need to work on in your financial life. But actually changing bad habits that may have been there for years? That’s something altogether different. The latter is where financial psychology comes into play. The idea is to help individuals not only create worthwhile goals for managing money, but overcome the mental obstacles that tend to trip them up along the way. It’s not all that different from someone trying to lose weight....

Horribleness of the game aside — which, let’s face it, was almost definitely conceived by that walking corpse Stephen Miller who doesn’t need to wear a Halloween costume to terrify children — what was the point? To attach tape to a piece of red paper and stick it on a wall? Yay? After you build it, what do you win? What makes you the winner? The Trump White House is all about winners, right?...

You’ve said it. I’ve said it. Even good preschool teachers say it. We all need to stop. I know it’s well-intentioned: Better to say something than hit something. It overlooks something crucial, though. When young children don’t use their words, it’s not because they don’t want to but because they can’t. We tell them to “use their words” when they’re frustrated and emotional — not the best time to search their inner toddler dictionary for le mot juste....

The veto, which is almost assuredly going to be overridden by state lawmakers, comes at a time when the rights of transgender children and their parents are being dismantled on many levels in state legislatures across the country. In the letter, Governor Cox dives into many of the reasons as to why he chose to veto the bill, ranging from the financial to legal implications of what could happen. He noted the divisiveness of the issue, and that the bill has “several fundamental flaws” that “should be reconsidered” like that the bill would decimate local schools with legal fees....

sneeze.a dad for whom the most mundane of nasal emissions can sound like a foghorn blaring, or a trumpet sounding, or even a full-body performance of near-catastrophic machismo force, a dad for whom every sneeze would say, “practically achieve lift-off in his recliner.” It turns out that the recognizable “dad sneeze” is such a phenomenon that a Redditor, under the username hand-drawn-noodles, posed the evergreen question in a now viral thread, asking, “Dads, why can’t you guys sneeze at an appropriate volume?...

The Tiktok, posted by user Brennalina just four days ago, shows a pit bull adorably having the zoomies around a deer that has apparently lived on her parent’s property for years. Though their friendship started off tentatively — with the pit bull being way more into being friends than the deer — eventually the momma deer clearly began to feel warm feelings towards the adorable dog and they have since become best friends....

The fairly low-production value sketch intercuts two characters: a burly, baseball hat-wearing boomer dad and a millennial dad with AirPods and a beanie. It touches on a lot of different topics, on each accentuating the differences between the two parenting styles. Boomer dad asks the coach to bench his kid to teach him a lesson; millennial dad asks the coach to put his kid in because he hasn’t had a chance to pitch yet....

In December, Gordon Ramsay graced his daughter Tilly Ramsay’s TikTok with the viral “This or That” challenge — and Tilly Ramsay absolutely flamed her Michelin-star chef dad by saying she preferred her mom, Tana Ramsay’s, cooking, over her dad’s. Well, despite being flamed and publicly embarrassed by his teen daughter, Gordon has come back to gracer her TikTok (never mind the fact that he has a prolific app presence of his own....

The launch was out of Blue Origin’s spaceport in Van Horn, Texas at around 10:50 AM EST this morning, reaching altitudes of more than 300,000 feet and briefly experiencing the effects of zero gravity. The entire flight is available to watch on Blue Origin’s YouTube channel, as they live-streamed the entire thing. Be warned, the video is over three hours long but if you just want to see the actual launch and landing (which lasts about 11 minutes), you can just skip to about 2:30:00 into the video to see it....

“Why did this song reliably put my daughter to sleep for all of the newborn phase?” Mary O’Brien wrote as the caption of a viral TikTok she posted of her baby crying, and then instantly not crying when some heavy metal starts playing in the background. In the video, Mary O’Brien’s partner, and the dad of her infant, is holding their crying newborn when the opening riff of “Jezebel” by Memphis May Fire starts to play....

“Early initiation is one of the strongest predictors of the likelihood of experiencing health consequences from marijuana use,” said co-author on the study Natasha A. Sokol of Brown University, in a statement. “In a shifting regulatory environment in which we expect adult marijuana use to become more normative, developing a deeper and more nuanced understanding of social risk factors for early initiation is a critical step in intervention design and delivery....

In October, the FDA sent a warning letter to Owlet stating that the company was marketing the socks without approval from the agency. Since the socks can notify parents about potentially out-of-the-ordinary measurements of heart rate and blood oxygen, the agency said that they should be classified as medical devices. In a response letter, the company said they would stop selling the products in the United States. Owlet also noted that the FDA didn’t mention any specific safety concerns about the sock....

TOP Agency, a marketing agency that delivers business, consumer, and marketing insights, wanted to learn more about which cocktails were favored across the country. “Cocktails have always been popular, but after two years of lockdown it seems Americans have grown to appreciate them even more,” TOP Agency says, citing happy hour visits are up 54% compared to pre-pandemic numbers. To find out which drinks are taking the top spot in each state, the team at TOP Agency analyzed 2022 digital commerce trends, used GPS tracking data from bars, and surveyed 1,000 people to find out how often they visit the bars....

TUNE IN TO: Tip Your Wait Staff on Instagram TV every day at 2 p.m. EST. To help raise money for the staffs of now-closed comedy clubs, comedian, and modern-day chronicler of dad life Mike Birbiglia is having conversations and workshopping jokes in real time with such fellow comedians as Roy Wood Jr., John Mulaney, Maria Bamford, and Nikki Glaser on his Instagram. Tuning in feels like overhearing delightful banter between funny, clever friends....

The simple answer is, as Dr. Scott Bea, clinical psychologist at Cleveland Clinic says, “parenting is pressurized; grandparenting has no pressure.” But with that, one of two scenarios is likely for this transformation. Your dad no longer has the pressures of a career. He can assess his life, something that’s hard to do when you’re in the middle of it, Bea says, and he knows that time is finite. He doesn’t want to miss anything again....