An interesting thing happened last Saturday. I was sitting in my office, contemplating what to topic to tackle for this week’s podcast, when I noticed my daughter’s head poking through a crack in the door: “What are you doing, Mommy?” “I am working, my love.” “But I want you!” she proclaimed. “I will be out soon to have lunch with you. So go play in the playroom, or ask Granny to get your crayons for you....
The Ferret Repossession My daughter loves animals and has had a variety of small pets throughout the years. Unfortunately it’s mom that always gets stuck feeding and cleaning them. One year my daughter asked for a ferret for Christmas; inevitability she got it and didn’t take care of it. For years I would hide her toys if she didn’t clean them up and I would tell her Santa repossessed them and was going to give them to another child if she didn’t clean; if she did he would bring them back — because he’s always watching....
In the Before Times, I printed out everything the way every American printed out things: I mailed myself pdfs and then used the gargantuan printer at my office. What a simpler time that was. Unable to do that, I turned to my dusty home printer, which I realized was nothing but an ink-guzzling, paper-eating waste of shelf space. Since I had a wild pile of documents to print, scan, and copy now, I bit the bullet and purchased a Brother MFC-J805DW INKvestment Tank....
won’t do as a parent: use an iPad to keep a kid quiet, fight with their partner in front of the kids, yell, curse, bribe – promises differ, but all soon-to-be parents make them. And yet, a great tradition of parenthood is swiftly breaking them. It’s easy to imagine being the perfect parent before the baby arrives, when nobody’s screaming, you’ve had a good night’s sleep, and your feet have yet to be scarred by stray Legos....
The coasters are available at Oga’s Cantina. As you can see in the images below, shared by some of the lucky few who’ve experienced the park pre-opening day, there are several different designs to choose from, with Star Wars icons like Ewoks and Banthas. Designs featuring a Rancor and the T-16 Skyhopper are also available. There’s already a fairly vibrant market on eBay for the coasters, along with the souvenir mugs you can also pick up at the bar....
The D-Link camera is a little trickier to setup than a traditional baby monitor, but not by much. With a baby monitor, it’s usually a matter of pairing the camera to the monitor. With the web camera, you have to plug it into your router and run a setup wizard to connect to the Wi-Fi network. After that, though, you can view the feed on your phone or tablet from anywhere, whereas most baby monitors are limited to the house (or at least to a certain distance between camera and monitor)....
Do I know everything? Of course not. But I am in a position to offer some advice. One thing I’ve found over the years is that the majority of men struggle with shopping. Or, more accurately, struggle to find the motivation to shop. Clothing isn’t life or death — or raising children for that matter. Who has time to shop for clothing for yourself when you’re trying to get the little ones dressed and out in the morning?...
title: “The Only 10 Core Moves You Need” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-19” author: “Irving Berger”
Mate-Choice Copying in Humans May Be Specific to Women While there’s plenty of evidence that mate-copying takes place in both sexes among animals, there’s preliminary evidence that the effects are more distinct in human women. One study published in PLOS One found that women considered coupled men more attractive and spent significantly more time looking at pictures of potential suitors when they were depicted as married or in a relationship. The effect did not extend to men looking at paired women — so mate-choice copying does not explain the whole MILF thing....
Major spoilers for No Time To Die ahead. The most affecting scene in No Time To Die occurs right toward the end of the film. With moments left, James Bond (Daniel Craig) has climbed to the top of an evil laboratory, full of a DNA-coded virus that can kill millions. He’s opened up the blast doors so the missiles from his government can wipe out this scourge, and in doing so he’s defeated Safin (Rami Malek), an over-the-top Bond villain to rival the first cinematic Bond baddie, Dr....
The pride is real now. Just ask the family piling into a roomy and zippy Volkswagen ID 4 on the way to a National Park; commuting to school in the stylish and fast BMW i4 eDrive40 Gran Coupe; or driving to grandma’s house in the rugged, sleek Ford Bronco Sport (through the river and over the woods, for fun!). These and 11 more of our choices for family cars of the year are vehicles that don’t require concessions or defensive posturing....
The business end is a six-inch diameter nylon bristle brush head that twists and locks onto the tool. The back end is a port to accept a Ryobi 18-volt battery, which is sold separately (or you can pop in the battery from any other Ryobi 18-volt tool you have). The head pivots and locks into six different positions to give you the best angle of attack on whatever you’re cleaning....
Aimed at kids four to 11 years old, the V-Tech is two devices in one. The 3 1/2 x 5 1/2-inch body houses a nearly 2 1/2-inch color screen and takes videos and photos through a 2.0-megapixel camera. Yes, that’s about the quality of the first-generation iPhone. Once they take a photo, kids can print black and white images through the camera’s thermal printer (think: the printer most cash registers use) that spits out in front....
Ilirian has gone viral on TikTok, several times actually. All the views come from people who love his passion for food (and the adorable way he teaches the world how to cook.) Even at his young age, the mini chef is an expert, and he’s mastered complex dishes grown adults struggle with. In one video, which had amassed over 11 million views, the skilled toddler takes on one of the most challenging recipes: the beef wellington....
During the Fast Company-sponsored talk, Fadell was very clear about how fatherhood had affected his perspective on the proliferation of mobile screens. While acknowledging that addiction had been designed into the iDevices, he offered anecdotal evidence of the childhood tech-jones from his personal life. Fadell explained to the London audience that when taking devices away from his own kids, “They literally feel like you’re tearing a piece of their person away from them—they get emotional about it, very emotional....
That’s where the beautiful wooden “My Weather Station,” a 3-D weather chart for kids from Moon Picnic, comes in. It’s part science lesson, part showpiece, and something concrete that gives preschoolers a sense of understanding and control over what’s happening outdoors. It’s an observational tool that teaches kids to track temperature, wind, and humidity. And it’s quite possibly the easiest, and most practical, science lesson they’ll ever have at home, as they begin to understand what cold or hot means, why an influx of dark clouds leads to a downpour, and how to dress accordingly....
This gap in knowledge has caused a lot of misinformation and fighting about which drugs are safe to treat COVID-19. The French health minister led the way with bold, brazen (and mostly unsubstantiated) claims that ibuprofen and its family of pain-relievers, known as Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, don’t mix well with this new virus. There is scant scientific evidence to support his warning — just a passing reference in a scientific article that ibuprofen could increase a receptor the new virus binds to, which theoretically might ramp up an infection....
On Sept. 25, 2020, Jill Filipovic, author of “OK BOOMER, LET’S TALK: How My Generation Got Left Behind,” decided now was a good time to not-a-parent-splain some unsolicited advice, and give her insight on something she doesn’t have practical experience in. “I know the thing parents hate most is when non-parents assert what they will do as parents which is inevitably smug and incorrect, but I am 100% sure I will never assent to a ‘kid’s menu’ or the concept of ‘kid food,’” she tweeted....
The insane catch happened at the top of the sixth inning of the Padres game against the Cubs on Wednesday. A Chicago pinch-hitter hit a foul ball into the stands. The ball ended up ricocheting off of the upper deck and bounced down to the mom, who had the reflexes to make the leaping grab (without a glove) despite one of her hands being used to hold her baby. After making the impressive grab, she celebrated with some well-earned high-fives from the fans around her....
