One recent meet-and-greet with the North Pole’s most famous family this year turned out to be potentially dangerous amid the pandemic. At a mall photo-op and parade on Thursday, Dec. 10 in Long County, Georgia, it looks like Santa may have exposed up to 50 children to COVID-19 after the Clauses tested positive the Saturday two days after the event, according to NBC News. The Clauses didn’t exhibit symptoms on the day of the meet-and-greet....

Axl Rose (musician) started a Twitter beef (internet slang) with Steve Mnuchin (politician) in the middle of a pandemic (kind of disaster). The Guns N’ Roses frontman started the unexpected feud with what appears to be a tweet inspired by an interview the Treasury Secretary gave on Fox Business. “This is a great time for people to explore America,” Mnuchin said, contra the opinion of every sane public health official on the planet....

Since President Joe Biden officially became the president at 12 p.m. on January 20th, 2021, he has been hard at work signing dozens of executive orders to get COVID-19 under control and get kids back in classrooms. The pandemic, which has killed over 400,000 Americans and shows no signs of easing up as we grind through a long, cold, lonely winter, is Biden’s major focus in terms of helping American families, and he’s working on the problem in a series of ways to help ease the spread of infection and the economic impact that COVID-19 has brought to us all....

RELATED: The Best Family Camping Tents It’s worth investing in a kid-sized 3-season sleeping bag for a couple of reasons — the main being practical: for a sleeping bag to work and feel warm, the body needs to heat up the air inside it. If there’s a lot of extra space in there, your body has more air to heat. And that can be hard for a little person. ALSO: The Best Camping Gear And Equipment For Your Next Family Adventure Currently, all the best kids 3-season sleeping bags are made from synthetic insulation, which is warm when wet and less expensive....

Baby food makers streamline the process by letting you toss in the ingredients you want and having the machine do the rest of the work. Make no mistake: These things are a luxury, and you can achieve the same results, albeit with more effort, by using a regular immersion blender. But the best all-in-one baby food makers are all about efficiency. To steal a phrase from pitch-man Ron Popeil, they let you set it and forget it....

Looking to give kids a big gift this year? From toys that kids can ride, drive, build, or use to play pretend, these are the big gifts for kids that they’ll remember. Every product on Fatherly is independently selected by our editors, writers, and experts. If you click a link on our site and buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission.

RELATED: Best Coffee Products for Dads There’s no weird, survivalist know-how that you need to operate this thing. No stoking a fire of moose droppings to boil or fjording ice-cold whitewater to fill it — it works like every other French press you’ve ever used (and will survive moose and/or river fjording without shattering). The REI Table Top features 2 filters, one in the plunger and one in the spout, so there are no grounds in your cup!...

announced a new spate of programs designed to provide relief to millions of student loan borrowers. The programs include an extension to the pause on repayments and interest accrual that was originally slated to end in May. That student loan forbearance is now extended until August 31st — a move that was met with mixed reaction and, most notably, a call for more permanent student loan action from the president....

In March of 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris announced the Biden administration’s plans to release the $5 billion in federal funds to purchase electric school buses. The 560,000 school buses that take about 25 million kids to and from school travel over six billion miles a year — making them the most extensive public transportation network in the country. Greenifying the fleet (ninety-five percent of which run on diesel fuel) will not only target one of the largest public transport systems nationwide but it will also have cascading effects on the environment and the health of kids....

Now that may seem a bit expensive for your run-of-the-mill stuffed animal but anyone familiar with Flappy knows that this elephant is a very special toy that kids absolutely love. Because he’s not just soft and huggable, Flappy also has an arsenal of tricks up his sleeve. While your kid is playing with Flappy, he will prove to live up to his name as his ears will flap up and down to show his excitement....

ALA President Patty Wong said of the report, “We support individual parents’ choices concerning their child’s reading and believe that parents should not have those choices dictated by others. Young people need to have access to a variety of books from which they can learn about different perspectives,” per NPR. How Many Book Ban Attempts Took Place? The report found that in 2021, there were 729 challenges to the books and activities that take place in libraries, for a total of ....

“We are very pleased to hear that the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee has found a special solution regarding the entry to Japan for mothers who are breastfeeding and their young children,” the IOC spokesperson said. This decision was long overdue. One, breastfeeding should not be the thing that keeps you from being able to do your job, as it’s a basic workplace accommodation and the Olympics are, functionally, a workplace for athletes....

Here’s everything Californians (and non-Californians) need to know about the payments, which are both more and less generous than their federal progenitors. Who is eligible for the Golden State Stimulus? The 5.7 million California residents who are eligible for the one-time payments fall into two categories. There are CalEITC recipients, who qualify because their taxable income is $30,000 or less, and ITIN filers (those who lack a Social Security number) who made $75,000 or less....

“If it’s a really bitter divorce or separation, you may see one party that’s the non-marijuana user call Child Protective Services, or at the very least threaten to,” explains Nicholas Dowgul, a North Carolina-based divorce attorney. There are two basic ways a parent can have their custodial rights compromised by marijuana use. The first involves the intervention of Child Protective Services (CPS), which typically assesses a parent’s use after receiving a tip (one can guess where such tips come from)....

While moms have historically always been the people to shoulder caregiving responsibilities more than dads, the pandemic split the chasm of home responsibilities wide open. Indeed, a new study shows that women are doing more caregiving than men by a large margin. And it shows that the caregiving problem is one that existed far before the pandemic began. Fidelity Investments recently published the 2021 American Caregivers Study and discovered some startling numbers on the state of caregiving that includes data from caregiving experiences before the pandemic, as well as during and after, that shows the gender divide....

The new guidance update on how to clean surfaces in order to limit the spread of COVID-19 says that in most situations when there has been no known COVID-19 exposure, soap and water or appropriate cleaning products will do just fine when cleaning compared to bleach wipes, deep cleans, and caustic sprays. The CDC guidance says routine disinfection at home is only recommended when there are confirmed COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours....

During Ally’s childhood, Cuevas often worked long hours at world-class kitchens in San Sebastian, Barcelona, Monaco, Copenhagen, San Francisco, and New York, leaving a trail of Michelin stars behind him. Back at the Cuevas house, the smell of succulent roast chicken in the oven meant dinner was going to be good, but also that dad was home: Any troubles of the school day melted away. Now Cuevas is back in his hometown of San Juan full time and he’s still working long hours and winning numerous awards....

“When I was single and just making food for myself, I’d make these big pots of red beans and rice and have to figure out what to do with it for the rest of the week,” Scott says. “So I figured out how to repurpose leftovers instead of eating the same thing every meal for a whole week.” That spirit of reinvention is at the heart of Scott’s new cookbook, Fix Me a Plate: Traditional and New School Soul Food Recipes....

You may have heard that children don’t form memories until about age 3, but that’s a bit of an oversimplification. According to a pair of leading experts in childhood memory, your 2-year-old may not recall their first spin on the teacups like you will (how could you forget that face?). But they will retain a different, more mysterious kind of memory — one that lasts a lifetime. Kids Remember Things Differently Than Adults Do Adults might think of memories in categorical terms, like “Remember that great restaurant we went to on our honeymoon?...