Why bring him up at all? Because dudes like Dwayne Stamper Sr. make life harder for dads — you know that squint of suspicion when the kid’s got a bruised arm? — and for kids. Stamper is a bully and the best way to handle a bully according to research is to bury them under a heap of scorn. Here goes! Let’s start with the backstory. Stamper was in a store when a stranger’s child started crying....
It’s an experience that every kid, from preschool to senior year, has felt. The terror of walking into class on that first school can be downright terrifying for anyone who isn’t sure of their place. Given the universal nature of this fear, it doesn’t come as a surprise that heading back to school has been captured time and time again on film. And yet, more than Grease, Mean Girls, or even Billy Madison, perhaps no cinematic experience perfectly captures the back-to-school spirit better than the X-Men movies (at least the good ones)....
Boredom Leads to Better Screen Time Habits Adults are guilty of disliking boredom just as much as their kids and we often avoid it completely with the help of our smartphones. But kids notice what their parents do and mirror that behavior. Most parents probably don’t want to teach their children to waste as much time as they do mindlessly scrolling around the internet. So even when you’re bored, too, get off your phone — or whatever screen is in front of you — and do something with your child....
The disruption to our circadian rhythms can negatively impact our mental health and can even make it more difficult for our kids to fall asleep, which is especially frustrating if the return to Standard Time happens to occur during an already-established sleep training schedule. Despite the extra sixty minutes of sleep in the morning, the change to Standard Time means that we get less light during the day, which might just have the unfortunate side effect of making the stress of the second wave of the pandemic even more difficult to cope with....
Smoking and chronic health conditions such as diabetes or high cholesterol can cause your blood vessels to harden or become blocked, which reduces blood flow and makes it difficult for hair to grow. “The further you get away from the heart, the poorer the circulation is going to be,” says Ousey. That means it’s most difficult to get blood to your toes, and if you’re growing five bushes on each foot, your blood is probably pumping correctly....
This morning I took my 17-month-old son Marco to the playground, where he loves to go down the slide, head-first. He went through the usual routine: climb the stairs, go down the slide, laugh out loud, repeat. At some point he surprisingly pointed at the swings. We rarely go to the swings now; I’m guessing he lost interest in them after he started enjoying the adrenaline rush of the slide....
Tell me about the last time you yelled. I work in construction. So I yell at guys all the time [laughs] Okay, when was the last time you yelled away from the worksite? A few weeks ago. What happened? I scolded my daughter very loudly and in public in our neighborhood. Walk me back a bit. What caused it? I’d made a promise to her that the first nice day we had this spring, she could walk to school with her friend....
As it stands, IDEA funding is at its lowest ever recorded. This is a disgrace. IDEA, for all of its benefits, has actually never been fully funded since its inception. That’s because there’s a difference between what’s “authorized” and what’s “appropriated.” The bill — which was reauthorized in 2004 and amended through the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015 — provides the formula for full funding, a calculation based on how many students live in a given state, among other factors....
Speaking to Esquire, Butters said Leonardo DiCaprio was “protective” of her and specifically made people tone-down their language. “When all the other guys were swearing, he would say, ‘Whoa, hey, whoa.’ And then he turned to my mom and I and he said, ‘I’m going to keep these guys in line.’ So he gave them a talking to about not swearing in front of the child.” Butters also said she loved her scenes with the late-Luke Perry, who she described as being “fatherly,” and said she gave him a piece of pottery that Perry told her he would “cherish forever....
“Fixing problems doesn’t work with emotional problems. Most of the time when a man responds to his wife’s emotions with a fix-it approach, it limits your ability to relate on a deeper level,” Liz Colizza, a psychotherapist and the head of research at the marriage counseling app Lasting, told Fatherly. “It can increase disconnection because you’ve not allowed that person’s experience to be fully seen and heard.” Internal data from Lasting indicates that 80 percent of their users vent to their spouses often, but only included seven percent of women who thought that they could do this without their partners jumping in to try and solve their problems....
To be sure, plenty of common parenting advice is well-founded or harmless, but there is a shocking amount of outdated and incorrect “information” being thrust at parents. The distribution of bad advice is not just a modern phenomenon. Parenting advice has historically been dubious and unreliable. The problem is structural and economic. Parenting advice is born at the intersection of conventional wisdom and scientific inquiry, which means that insights are invariable retrofitted to suit the prejudices of the era and that even disproven ideas having considerable half-lives....
“The problem with assuming a 50-50 division is the marriage may start to function in a ‘You do this, then I’ll do that’ manner,” psychotherapist Whitney Goodman told Fatherly. “An exact division of labor is often impossible for couple’s to achieve, especially if they value contributions differently.” Th 50-50 marriage is a fallacy and a trap that stems from a combination of traditional and modern marriage expectations. In more traditional relationships the distribution of responsibilities in marriages was rigidly defined....
The Galactic Starcruiser was promising to be a life-changing, mind-blowing experience for guests. The hotel isn’t like any other in Disney. With more of a cruise feel, guests would spend most of their time inside the hotel. But it wasn’t just any ol’ hotel. This would be transformed to make guests feel like they were a part of the Star Wars universe – cosplayers and all. There were already some confusion points for potential guests when the hotel was first announced in August 2021....
On September 26, the singer took to Twitter to share a petition against the rising costs of real estate in Texas, where she’s living. “My fellow Texans! Petitions can feel useless, but I guarantee local politicians are taking these seriously,” she tweeted, sharing the petition on Change.org. “Plz sign to reduce housing costs in Austin. There’s effective legislation on the table here, but we need public support. Houston is the 4th populous metro in the entire nation with a median housing price lower than all the other cities on that list,” she tweeted, sharing a screenshot of some collected data on the housing prices in the city....
Those struggles were exacerbated in the pandemic, where women left the workforce in scores due to collapsing child care availability and where parents struggled to figure out how to make it work in their new normal. While we all have similar struggles, not all states are made the same, and a new poll shows the best and worst states for working moms based on several key metrics. WalletHub wanted to determine which states were the best for working moms and which states were the worse....
So, which courses might be useful? One, administered by Access Continuing Education Inc., intended for doctors in New York State, and aptly (and drily) titled Infection Control: New York State Mandatory Training, contains a wealth of worthwhile information. The course isn’t like a typical virtual classroom — there are no teachers, no video sessions, and no mandated quizzes at the end. There are no hours required to finish the course and each ‘Element,’ a full-text article that reads about a page long, touches on a different process of how to limit transmission....
Thousands of folks protested in Merrick, according to Scott Brinton, a Long Island reporter, the day after about 150 marchers were met by 30 counter-protesters in Merrick who refused to allow the anti-police violence marchers to walk past them. They shouted at them to “go home,” and eventually, Nassau County police had to escort the protesters down the sidewalk, standing in between them and the counter-protesters. The video has been reposted all over social media by celebrities like Mark Hamill and regular folks, with some saying that the girl brought tears to their eyes, others expressing their love for her passion, and many more noting how heartbreaking it is that such a young girl as her has to march for her life when other kids get to just be kids....
Of course the most common illness your baby will deal is the good old-fashioned cold. So be prepared and check out what you need to know when the mucus starts flowing. Going Viral Statistically speaking, your kid will probably come down with 7 colds in their first year of life. If they happen to be in daycare that number will just about double. The reason for this is pretty simple: your baby’s brand-new immune system just doesn’t have the juice to take on all comers....
Because if you ignore the intergalactic politics and fighting robots, it’s plain to see this movie was all about first love. Don’t believe us? Just look at how this movie perfectly replicates five essential rom-com tropes. Rom-Com Trope #1: The Lovable Protagonist All great teen rom-coms revolve around an outsider; a loner who simply doesn’t fit in with the world around them. Andie in Pretty in Pink. Kat in 10 Things I Hate About You....
Warning: While there are no specific plot points discussed, there are slight Captain Marvel spoilers below so if you want to go in fully blind, stop reading. For anyone who has watched the trailer for the upcoming ’90s-era MCU film, it’s no secret that the titular hero spends a good deal of time with a younger Fury (thanks to some incredible special effects), who noticeably has both eyes. We won’t explain what specifically ends up happening to his eye over the course of the film, but we will confirm that by the end of Captain Marvel, we have a concrete answer as to how Fury became the coolest cyclops in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (no disrespect to Cyclops, who technically belongs in Fox’s less-beloved and now-canceled Marvel Movie Universe)....
