Last week, 30-year-old Cori E. Ward shared a clip of her daughter inside an exam room, licking a tongue depressor and putting it back. A sign above the jar of tongue depressors reads “PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES! THANK YOU!” Ward captioned the Snapchat video: “Don’t tell me how to live my life.” Authorities quickly got wind of the clip and arrested Ward. She was then charged with one count of tampering with a consumer product without regard for possible death or injury....

No need to turn around while you’re doing 80 mph on the highway. Garmin’s new BabyCam video baby monitor displays a view of the back seat of your car (and your kids secured in a car seat) on nearly any Garmin GPS unit, as well as a host of other compatible GPS systems. Just tap the navigation screen (assuming you have one in the first place) and you can see your child napping, screaming, vomiting, or cursing at other drivers with minimal eye-shifting....

Keith’s decision to share his journey to getting a vasectomy might seem like it’s treading the line of TMI, but it’s actually mightily refreshing. For one, when we talk about vasectomies in popular culture, depictions of the procedure tend to focus on pain — and can muddy the water of what’s typical in terms of pain and recovery time. For Keith, it was necessary to share his experience to debunk many myths surrounding the procedure....

Over the years, there’s been a lot of debate about increasing the minimum wage. Each state holds their own minimum, but the reality is that most often while the wage has increased from when our parents were our age, it doesn’t keep up with inflation. With everything costing more, and our pay not increasing at the same rate, it’s leaving more and more people in poverty. While most states could use a lot of improvement in this area, there are some states that have seen a big wage increase over the past decade....

It’s a jarring shift, which is why many couples can experience the end of the phase as one of disillusionment and uncertainty. The sudden awareness of differences, along with the disagreements and conflicts that arise feel threatening. Often, this is an anxiety-provoking experience, as fears of criticism, judgment, or rejection replace feelings of togetherness. In my work as a couple’s therapist, most of the clients I see struggle to understand how to deal with differences in the relationship, without even being aware of the anxiety that’s at the heart of their struggle....

Normal childhood development is not enough to explain kids’ weird and sometimes terrible behavior. While kids might treat their world as their personal laboratory, that lab is crammed with people. Just like every human on earth, kids’ behavior is often the product of social interactions. It’s just sometimes hard to suss out what’s prompted the behavior. Is a kid telling their parent they hate them to see what the reaction to that phrase is, or do they feel insecure and are seeking out reassurance by pushing a parent’s buttons?...

At first, Sara Pelissero, a multimedia producer for a news station in Minneapolis and the mother of the rapping prodigy, was confused. She had never introduced her daughter to the man behind such hits as “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem” and “X Gon Give It To Ya.” But after hearing her daughter’s impromptu rendition, Sara decided to whip out her trusty iPhone and capture some of the performance on film. She then uploaded the video on Twitter with the caption “Someone taught my 3-year-old a DMX song and … I’m just not sure where to go from here....

Erica: Honestly, pregnancy for us was pretty smooth. We were so lucky. We had no hiccups, no complications. We’re really fortunate because we’re so far away from our family, so it was great to just not have anything go wrong out here. Jordan: Yeah, it was an easy, healthy pregnancy for you. We kept denying that you were pregnant and kept trying to live our life like nothing had changed....

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Brother vs. Brother) Elliot (To his brother Michael): “It was nothing like that, penis breath!” When Elliot has finally had enough of his older brother teasing him, he busts out this hilarious insult to shut him up. It’s such an unexpectedly solid burn that Elliot’s mom has to stifle laughter while she tries to reprimand her son’s foul mouth. Step Brothers (Stepbrother vs. Stepbrother) Dale: “You and your mom are hillbillies....

What Is The Simpson’s Golden Age? There’s some dispute when it comes to finding an exact timeframe. The most common definition is the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons are the Golden Age. That’s when it was at its most daring, most innovative, and, most importantly, when it was at its funniest. However, die-hard fans often claim that’s too broad. If you’re a real purist, the extreme definition of the Golden Age is seasons 3-8, when the show was not just the funniest thing on TV; it was fundamentally redefining comedy on television in a way that arguably has not been seen before or since....

Perhaps the most useful and popular aspect of the Youth Hockey Hub, at least for Minnesota residents, is the tournament guide, which tracks the tournament schedules of Minnesota youth hockey leagues of all ages. Why Minnesota? Because in Minnesota, hockey is not a sport, it’s a lifestyle and that lifestyle indoctrination begins at birth. For most leagues, finding a schedule this comprehensive is nearly impossible, so it’s a credit to Youth Hockey Hub that they do such a thorough job of keeping track of when these tournaments are happening and what the result of these tournaments are....

The goal was to create a car – albeit one with blue eyes and a sly smile – that resembled an actual stock car. The Pixar team, with Cars director John Lasseter in the driver’s seat (oh good Lord, we’re so sorry), joined forces with Chevrolet to model McQueen on the company’s then-current Corvette model, the C6. But that didn’t satisfy Lasseter, who stated, “Due to aerodynamics, the shape of NASCAR cars is relatively flat and not very interesting....

Last week, in an exchange on Twitter with Tatooine Sons: A Star Wars Podcast, Hamill confirmed that he often pitched George Lucas all sorts of outrageous plot-twists that could happen in Return of the Jedi. One idea was that Luke’s mother was a double-agent, spying for the Rebellion, and another idea was that Boba Fett was secretly…Luke Skywalker’s mother! Now, before anyone scoffs at this or even mentions Attack of the Clones or the canceled Boba Fett movie, let’s pause for a second and try to remember that in the early eighties nothing was known about Boba Fett’s “real” identity....

Logic would dictate that, because cuteness aids in survival, our offspring would have it in spades when they’re at their most vulnerable — shortly after birth. Shouldn’t biology have driven us to find the smallest babies the cutest? This is one of the main questions addressed by a recent study in Evolution and Human Behavior. “We noticed adults rated the newborns as the least attractive, and the 6-month-olds had the highest ratings across all of the facial cues,” said study co-author Prarthana Franklin of Brock University in St....

“This fascination is a consequence of inadequate experience with fire during development,” evolutionary biologist Daniel Fessler told Live Science. In his own research, Fessler has discovered at least 19 societies that expose children to fire at the tender age of three; most other cultures introduce children to fire between the ages of five and eight. Only in western countries are the flames taboo throughout childhood, and this helps spark a child’s curiosity....

If he were older, I would encourage him to use his voice and his autonomy to walk out of class himself. I’d ask him to stand up for his safety like his brave peers across the U.S. who inspire me to keep pushing for gun reform despite frustration, emotional exhaustion, and the political reticence of my representatives. But today he’s only 7 years old. So I see it as my duty to help him fight because he cannot....

It’s All About That Rhythm Rhythm, per Gerken, is a vital tool for babies to understand when phrases end and begin – their first step in learning language. After they get a handle on that, rhythm helps infants develop a motor pattern. As springy, heavily rhythmic prose is one of the hallmarks of Dr. Seuss’ works, the good doctor presents a crash course in early linguistics. English often takes on iambic pentameter (de DUM, on repeat)....

In the previous paragraph, I used the word “stops” and not “ends” and that’s because the story of the Baudelaire orphans doesn’t end, not in a conventional sense. If you’re even vaguely familiar with brilliantly hilarious and darkly intelligent Lemony Snicket books which the TV series adapts, then you know the smartest weapon in the narrative arsenal of these stories is the way it plays with the expectations of the audience....

Prep Time: None Entertainment Time: 10-15 minutesEnergy Expended by Child: Moderate What You Need: A rubber ball.Patience. How to Play: Circle the kids up a few feet apart from one another. Or, if you’re playing with just one child, line up opposite them a short distance away. Now explain the rules, which are simple. The child with the ball yells out, “A dog says… ruff ruff ruff!” and tosses the ball underhanded to anybody else in the circle....

So when the latter get something wrong, or even close to wrong, it’s kind of a big deal. And that’s exactly what happened last night, in no less a crucial spot than Final Jeopardy. This was the answer provided in the category Oscar-winning films: The first words spoken in this 1970 Best Picture Oscar winner are “Ten-Hut! Be seated!” These two things are true: Patton is a film that opens with those lines, but it won the Best Picture Oscar at the 1971 ceremony....