RELATED: The Best Strollers for Every Size Family and Budget Slow. Clap. Funny enough, Stroller Costumes were not designed with Halloween parent pageantry in mind. They were actually created to convince newly mobile toddlers ⏤ specifically, the founder’s oldest ⏤ that riding in a stroller is still fun, even when you can walk. In fact, they were inspired by those grocery store shopping carts that look like trucks. The costumes fit most strollers and even stay on when the stroller is folded up....

The Brooklyn Public Library announced a new program called Books Unbanned. The new program will focus on combatting suppression and censorship of book titles based on the topics being discussed or the storylines therein. Through the program, students between the ages of 13 and 21 in the United States can apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) eCard. You don’t have to live in the state to access 350,000 ebooks, 200,000 audiobooks, and numerous online databases – which opens the opportunity for teens to access book titles that have been banned elsewhere....

A Brio train set was one of the first things I bought my sons that they’ve actually played with. It exists in the narrow golden ellipse of the Venn Diagram between Shit I Want My Kids to Play With and Shit My Kids Actually Want To Play With. Earlier this year, the company introduced a new version of an old classic called the Smart Engine Set With Action Tunnels (Action Tunnels!...

The spike in sales is not unusual. After the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people died in six minutes, Guard Dog Security, a brand that was founded after the 2013 Sandy Hook shooting, also saw a similar uptick in sales. Bullet Blocker has seen a 200 percent surge in overall sales over the past several years, suggesting a long-term, not just reactionary, interest in protecting school-aged children....

I looked my sweet boy in his angelic face, his cheeks still marked by the creases of his sheets, patted down his unruly bedhead and gave him the only reasonable answer:“Of course Santa Claus can catch COVID.”But, I assured my child as he let loose a worried whimper, that doesn’t mean he will catch it. I then broke down exactly why it was possible for Santa to get sick and why it was incredibly unlikely he would....

More specifically the FDA refers to the now banned additives as benzophenone, ethyl acrylate, eugenyl methyl ether, myrcene, pulegone, and pyridine. They’re typically used to replicate citrus, mint, and cinnamon flavors in food. What may be worse is the wide array of foods that the additives are used in. Laura MacCleery, a policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, noted that they can typically be found in ice cream, gum, soda, and mass-produced pastries....

But all that’s just gravy considering his biggest achievements: Being consistently present with his own kids, Willow, 8, and Jameson, 2, with wife Pink. He’s teaching them fearlessness and the resilience that comes with always getting back up when you fall down, on a BMX track and in real life. Hart, who was raised by a divorced dad in Las Vegas, hit the pro circuit at 18 after recovering from a series of broken bones....

The Monit Diaper Sensor is a small disc, the approximate diameter of a can of seltzer, that clips to the outside of a diaper. Inside, an array of sensors detect urine or feces while a Bluetooth transmitter buzzes your phone when your baby needs a change. The companion app collects and tracks this data (of course), in case you’re interested in doing a very deep dive into diaper consumption and urination and defecation patterns....

It wasn’t necessarily curiosity that caused issues. One 12-year-old girl who wanted to pretend she had a tongue piercing put the magnets on either side of her tongue, swallowed them, and required two operations and a month’s absence from school. Buckyballs voluntarily recalled 175,000 of the sets in 2010 to alter the age suggestion from 13 and up to caution that the set wasn’t suitable for children of any age....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Chores A toddler or advanced infant isn’t just going to listen or understand when a parent simply says “clean up.” A parent needs to set an example, be a bit demanding, and not shy away from going all Mary Poppins. Singing a bit never hurt anyone. “Cleaning up is something that stays pretty ‘cooperative based’ for the first two years: expect that it will be very adult-modeled and help support it to be child-followed,” says Kiki Nelson, infant education coordinator at Portland, Oregon preschool Growing Seeds....

Teigen took to Twitter on the hunt for someone who will trade her. She writes, “I’ll make a banana bread for anyone that has romaine lettuce.” Adding that she is still expecting social distancing rules to be in play, “The trade will be made 6 feet apart and we will place the goods on the floor. no funny business.” It didn’t take long for her to receive several replies, but one person had the goods and lived nearby....

The report once again revealed how little the federal government actually regulates the production of baby food — a long-known problem that is only highlighted by the report. The amounts of toxic metals in the baby food detailed in the report showed that the baby foods have hundreds of parts per billion of the toxic metals, when in most cases, the maximum amount of toxic metals, which are somewhat unavoidable, should be in single parts per billion, not hundreds....

Fears aren’t going to stop, nor should they. The brain looks for danger more than safety. That’s a good thing, since the neighborhood dog might actually be nasty. “Fear keeps you alive,” says Dr. Jeff Bostic, psychiatrist at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. The news comes in around elementary school. That’s when kids start to have bad dreams, fantasize and lie, which is just a form of fantasy, says Corinna Tucker, professor of human development and family studies at University of New Hampshire....

A Group of Senators Are Pushing for More Stimulus Checks Some lawmakers are already pushing President Biden to deliver a fourth round of stimulus payments in the next spending bill. Ten Democratic senators wrote an open letter to Biden in early March thanking him for the latest round of stimulus relief while encouraging him “to include recurring direct payments and automatic unemployment insurance extensions tied to economic conditions in your Build Back Better long-term economic plan....

This family from Lincoln, Nebraska, welcomed triplets seven months ago. Along with triplets, Trae, Arya, and Natashia, comes a whole lot of baby bottles. Most parents understand how often we have to stand by the sink and wash baby bottles each day. Multiply that by three, and you could very well end up spending your whole day washing bottles. Parents of triples don’t have time for that; no one does....

1. Different is good. When Jodi moves into the neighborhood, she misses her old room and her friends. By the end of the movie, she learns that it can be beneficial to meet people that are different from herself and experience new things. Big changes can be hard on young kids, and Jodi navigates her new surroundings in a sympathetic and realistic way. She cries when she can’t find her favorite bedtime book after the boxes are all unpacked and fixates on it, because it reminds her of her home....

Shepard, who usually hosts his own podcast Armchair Expert and is often brutally honest about the realities of parenting and marriage, was a guest on The Endless Honeymoon Podcast with comedians, and married couple Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher. The 2-hour long conversation covered a range of topics, from their philosophy on kids having access to phones, to a road-rage incident that shifted how Shepard saw the world and making a relationship work when people have opposite “love languages....

Everyone was there. Everyone except his dad. I know my husband Shawn thought about what it would mean to miss all these baseball games. I know he worried about what would happen to our boys as they grew up without him. In fact, just a few hours after receiving a stage IV colon cancer diagnosis, he told me that he thought things would be okay, because our older son’s godfather Josh would be really involved in both boys’ lives....

However, as the much more contagious Delta variant continues to spread, this map puts into perspective just how powerful and rampant Delta is compared to previous surges of the pandemic. Here’s what you need to know. According to Digg, Reddit user u/notus_analytics uploaded an animated time-lapse map to r/dataisbeautiful. The map shows the number of reported cases of COVID-19. It is tracking from the beginning of the pandemic in January 2020 to today in a heat map form....

Princesses are often damsels in distress with incredibly thin and impossible waistlines. Princes embody a certain version of masculinity with little room for expressing their emotions. But a new study suggests that kids who are major fans of princesses actually have a healthier outlook on gender than those who aren’t super into Anna and Elsa. By age 10, kids who were princess-obsessed were five times more likely to hold “progressive” views on gender, such as that boys shouldn’t repress their emotions, according to the new study....