“My son was very afraid,” Nicole Merseal, the mother of one of the children, told ABC News. “He didn’t understand why his best friends beat him up. These are children that he’s been around for a couple years. He described them as his best friends. He just doesn’t understand why they punched him in the face. I don’t know any parent that could watch their children go through this and not be upset....

“So, we’re in our basement. He thinks nobody knows about his hiding spot,” mom Walker says as she approaches a kitchen cabinet that is closed. When she opens the door, Noah is sitting inside, eating a snack under a blanket, sitting upright, and watching TV on his iPad. “What are you doing in here, bud?” she asks. “You have the iPad — what are you doing?” He doesn’t answer and turns back to watch the cartoons he has alongside snacks and what appears to be a marker to draw with....

I remember when my first boy was just one-and-a-half years old, before he was in daycare. I spent my days with him, working as both a stay-at-home dad and small town newspaper editor for a Colorado community of just about 500 souls. I was depressed and clinging to selfish notions that I’d lost something in my transition to fatherhood — some quality of youth and vitality that I would never get back....

The video starts with a shirtless, bearded Black receiving his shot (with Eminem’s “Lose Yourself ” playing in the background) when suddenly, he starts to emit a bright yellow glow around him and grows in size. It seems like someone slipped a bit of super-soldier serum into his vaccine dosage by mistake (or possibly on purpose) and Black is more than ready to embrace his new superhuman self. Black puts on a Captain America mask and his own version of the costume in the form of an American flag speedo, plus the vibranium shield to complete the look....

Paxton Smith, who graduated on Sunday, May 30, had submitted one speech — reportedly about media and how her consumption of it has shaped her worldview, per D Magazine’s Tim Rogers— and decided to write another, about the most recent anti-choice bill that Governor Abbott signed just a few short weeks ago that bans abortion at six weeks.For the uninitiated, a six-week abortion ban bill (otherwise known as a heartbeat bill) passed the Texas House, Senate, and was signed by Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, in May....

The Department of Education’s annual budget is roughly three times the cost of the wall — if $22 billion is the final cost and there’s a reason to believe that it is an unrealistic estimate. Assuming the cost would be somewhere between the DHS estimate and the Democratic estimate of $55 billion, it’s clear a slate of programs for children — investing in the real future of the country — could have been funded with the money....

So while many take to their cars every single day, the reality of driving and operating a piece of large machinery comes with plenty of headaches, including high costs for owning and maintaining a car, plus having to spend hours sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and the actual danger of operating heavy machinery in a day-to-day way. Driving through school zones and commuting through pedestrian-hostile streets are a factor of life in the United States....

These proclivities fall under the umbrella of BDSM, an acronym for bondage/discipline, domination/submission and sadism/masochism. The term refers to a variety of practices and procedures, all of which revolve around the idea of power and control. Like almost all things associated with sex, it exists on a spectrum. There are the varsity players that have come to embrace BDSM as a lifestyle. Whips and chains and other kinds of gear may very well be stationed within their wheelhouse....

But, again, because the Internet is the Internet, I came across a candy corn survey conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of the National Confectioner’s Association that’s been lingering in my head ever since. The survey sought answers to a simple question: What’s the right way to eat Candy Corn? While 65-percent of respondents said they eat the whole piece at once (perfectly normal), 29-percent (!) said they start at the narrow white end, while seven percent (!...

This was our first successful pregnancy, after two heartbreaking miscarriages, and we tried to do every damn thing right in the nine months leading up to the due date. We woke up bleary-eyed in the dead quiet at 4:30am three days a week to haul our stiff, 37 year-old bodies to the gym. And in the evenings my wife logged miles around the pond at the park nearby our house because walking lowers complications of birth....

The social distance argument takes on various forms. Maybe one parent wants to follow guidelines as strictly as possible while the other does too but wants to takes a few liberties to feel “normal”. Maybe one parent takes social distancing to what the other sees is a militant extreme. Maybe one parent doesn’t think social distancing is necessary at all. Now, before we go further: Social distancing is a necessary measure to keep us safe during the coronavirus pandemic....

What happened? currently out of control in orbit Is this normal? What areas are safe? the Pentagon released a statement When will debris hit? The Aerospace Corporation’s most recent estimation So am I in danger?

When Can You Feel a Baby Kick? Babies start moving at 12 weeks, but a pregnant person is unlikely to feel anything besides “flutters” until 16 to 20 weeks. That’s when you’ll feel your first baby kick. Baby kicks should strengthen, with a complement of twitches (those are baby hiccups!) through the third trimester. Kicks then slow down slightly around week 36 when the womb becomes too crowded for vigorous thrashing....

My daughters and I were at one of those trampoline parks, an indoor place where kids can bounce around and act crazy. It was the first time we had been to this new one. They have one of those old school, American Gladiator-style jousting beams. Of course, my eight-year-old wanted to get on it, and there was a boy on there who was probably nine or ten. He was being, basically, an asshole....

That said, short of being a Michael Phelps-level trained swim instructor, there’s only so much you can do as a parent to teach your child (especially an infant) to swim. You can encourage water exploration in the bathtub. You can carry them around the pool to practice kicking. You can splash in the shallow end to show them that water is fun. Eventually, however, they’ll need official swim lessons, probably over the course of several summers....

“Team sports are top of the list for the average man because they allow you to give your workout your all, while occasionally taking off the pressure thanks to your teammates,” explains personal trainer Caleb Backe. “With this in mind, basketball is a largely inclusive team sport aimed at both the professional and amateur.” A full court game of basketball burns about 747 calories per hour, whereas a half-court game burns 558 calories....

Okay, so when was the last time you lost it? A few nights ago. I stepped on a toy car, lost my footing, and fell on my ass. I know, I know, it was the most cliché dad thing of all time. But it hurt. Bad. One of those unexpected falls where it just knocks the wind out of you. I was angry that I fell. But the fact that the car was still there really pissed me off....

Crib slats can trace their humble beginnings to The Art of Nursing a 1733 must-read that described the “arcuccio” or “arcutio”, which roughly translates to “little arch”. The idea was that nursing women would share a bed with their newborns but, to avoid rolling over and crushing them, place a half whiskey barrel with three slats over their children, forming a sort of protective shell. “Every nurse in Florence is obliged to lay in it, under pain of excommunication,” The Art of Nursing explaining, citing the then-popular punishment for accidental death of an infant....

First of all, it’s important to note that “not everyone is affected,” says dietician Su-Nui Escobar. This statement might seem like a punt on the question, but that’s what the numbers show us. She cites a study in which less than half of participants reported flatulence after eating pinto or baked beans, and only 11% did when eating black-eyed peas. The researchers behind the study expressed concern that people were passing up beans because of concerns about gassiness, despite beans being a low-cost, nutrient-rich, plant-based source of protein that lowers cholesterol and reduces the risk of chronic disease....

The authors of the study were inspired to conduct the experiment by past neurological research on primates, which suggests that there are distinct regions of the brain that develop as a result of early, often, and consistent visual stimuli. Human studies similarly indicate that people have specific neurons that help them remember the faces of familiar celebrities. However, the research did not look at how these areas of the brain may start to form in children....