Focus on the Family has a very narrow focus. Dobson has claimed that “Same-sex relationships undermine the future generation’s understanding of the fundamental principles of marriage, parenthood, and gender.” The only thing defensible about that statement is the grammar. But that’s pretty par for the course with Dobson and his lot. But don’t take my word for it. The Southern Poverty Law Center offers an apt description of the Family Research Council’s activities....

With the economy in free-fall, unemployment booming, and pandemic anxiety impossible to avoid, professional milestones seem forever out of reach for parents. After months of being stuck at home with antsy children hungry for distraction and attention, parents are exhausted. No matter how hard we work, parents are falling behind. “They’re saying ‘I don’t know how long I can keep this up for and ‘I’m burning the candle at both ends,’” says Daisy Dowling, CEO of Workparent, a consulting and training firm focusing on working parents....

“That’s everything. I was talking a little while ago, and somebody was like, ‘So what do you think this movie — is your legacy in the movie?’ My legacy is not my movie career or my career in show business. That’s my career in showbiz. My legacy is my children, my family. That’s my legacy. My children are everything to me,” says Murphy of his family. So yeah, it seems like an almost baffling disconnect....

The alleged strategy was prompted by declining interest in the site among young users that was pushing the average age of its users higher and higher. “Aging up is a real issue,” one Facebook researcher apparently wrote in an internal memo, and the statistics bear this out. Teen usage of the site has fallen by 13 percent in two years, and it’s projected to drop another 45 percent (!) in the next two years, according to Ars Technica....

Parents will be now able to see who their kids are chatting with, how frequently they chat, and whether or not they use video calling in those exchanges. They’ll also get access to the images and videos that their kids are sending and receiving. Parents can also see a list of all the users their kid has reported or blocked and why instead of just alerting them when such an action happens....

“In that earlier interview, I didn’t say Dumbledore’s not gay. He is,” Yates told Empire. It never says anything that the Headmaster of Hogwarts is gay in the Harry Potter books, but Rowling controversially revealed in an interview 2006 that he was, which made some fans believe she shoehorned that aspect of his character in. “This part of this huge narrative that Jo is creating doesn’t focus on his sexuality, but we’re not airbrushing or hiding it,” Yates said....

My wife and I had our first kid about a month ago. He’s an amazing little guy and crazy healthy. The problem is that every time I put him down at night, I get super anxious about SIDS. We keep his bed clear and put him down on his back, but I’m still worried. What should I do? Mateo Oklahoma City, Oklahoma It sounds like you’re doing everything right, except for the worrying, Mateo....

In the Before Times, we had commutes and the chance to go out with friends to help us unwind and de-stress. But now everyone is home and everything is out in the open, with few breaks and stress that’s been unprecedented. “You can’t sustain 24/7 levels of positivity,” says Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, a clinical psychologist in Summit, New Jersey. Kids are like little emotional tuning forks and can echo what we’re feeling....

The recall was announced after four infants between 11 weeks and four months old died while in the Rock ‘n Glide Soother. These deaths occurred between April 2019 and February 2020. No babies were reported to have died using the Glider. This problem is not new for Fisher-Price. In 2019, the retailer also recalled almost 5 million Rock ‘n Play baby sleepers after 30 babies died over a decade. When that recall was made, the company had noted that the deaths were used when the products weren’t used according to safety instructions....

“Hi all — does this look like an allergic reaction?” asks the poster in a Facebook allergy parent group. “Have you tried a naturopath or chiropractor? And adding probiotics and vitamin D to hid [sic] diet?” reads one response. You might think this social media post, presented by Dr. David Stukus to a room full of experts at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, would cause an uproar....

Consider for a moment that according to Care.com, the average cost of a Muncie, Indiana babysitter is about $15 an hour. Taylor works at the Youth Opportunity Center where the average wage is well below $15 hour. Over the course of an 8-hour workday, Taylor would have had to shell out $120 dollars to make sure her kid was supervised by an adult. And that’s working on the assumption that she could have found one in time....

Bourbon Slush At it’s core, this is just an adult slushy loaded with delicious, delicious bourbon. We like the richness of Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon’s caramel and vanilla notes paired with this drink’s fruitiness. Ingredients 2 cups of bourbon 2 cups black tea (room temperature) 5 cups of water 1/4-1/3 cup of simple syrup 12 oz lemonade concentrate 6 oz orange juice concentrate Instructions Mix all ingredients and freeze in a large pyrex bowl....

From Iron Man in 2008 to Avengers: Endgame in 2019, one thing moviegoers have always been able to count on from these films is a one-liner quip machine even in the bleakest of installments. Figuring out all the funniest moments in all 22 installments of the official Marvel Cinematic Universe might seem like a task better suited to one of Tony Stark’s supercomputers, but since Jarvis and Friday aren’t real, you’ll have to deal with human bias....

Bad habits constantly need to be interrogated, too. Those that have been retained as well as those that have been built. Playing video games occasionally? Totally fine! Playing video games so much that you’re ignoring your family? Not great at all. Much can be said about other habits, too, both big and small. Right now, especially since the stress of life during COVID has certainly created an uptick of bad habits, it’s a good time to reassess....

Rumors of the James Bond classic getting updated have floated around the worldwide web for years but on January 1, TrueAchievements, a sit dedicated to tracking Xbox achievements, leaked a very intriguing discovery: a complete list of achievements for Goldeneye, including the maps, weapons, and characters from the iconic game. That certainly points towards the game being remade for the Xbox and to add even more fuel to the speculative fire, the leak showed that the achievements had been unlocked by only two active gamer tags: BIGsheep and Waylander73....

Sadly, you can’t just buy a new house for yourself and leave the disaster zone to your partner and kid. So, you’ll have to apply some creative storage and containment ideas. Kinda like how you used to stash contraband back in the day. Look! You already have experience with this. Getting Strategic about Toy Organization The fact is that your entire house will continue looking like a nursery unless you have a strategic plan to keep it tidy....

Helicopter parenting was always, in part, a reaction to the growing concern of child endangerment driven by an emerging 24-hour news cycle and high-profile child abduction cases. But the fear, while potent, was largely unfounded. There wasn’t actually a national child abduction crisis (less than 1 percent of missing children were non-family abductions). But there may very well be a national (if not global) online predator crisis. According to a recent report from the Center for Cyber Safety and Education, 40 percent of kids in grades 4 through 8 connected or chatted with a stranger online....

The kid’s got it bad: Big, wooly, heart-on-the-sleeve puppy love. It’s the best. By the time we have kids, the way we experience love has changed dramatically from the heart-pulsing and sometimes crushing experiences of pre-pubescence and adolescence. For one, we have a much more sophisticated understanding of what it means to love someone. We know it isn’t the same as attraction. We know that love requires selflessness and its value lies more in giving it away than receiving it from others....

Fatherly, My first grader is totally into Pokémon cards. He mostly likes the cartoon and the pictures and doesn’t know much about the game. But he does know some cards are better than others and so he started getting really excited about trading them. I got back from work the other day and he wanted to show me a card he traded with another kid on the bus and he was super excited because he said it was a special GX card or something....

The most important thing for parents to understand is that pediatric dietitians and nutritionists are consistent on one thing: A parent’s dinner-time job is to bring a well-balanced, healthy meal to the table. “When it comes to feeding children, parents want to avoid initiating a power struggle,” explains Licensed Dietitian and Nutritionist and founder of Dish on Fish Rima Kleiner. “Trying to coerce a child into eating food they don’t want to eat typically does not end well....