RELATED: Best Apps To Organize The Most Important Data on Your Phone: Family Photos The beauty of Pixlplay, a colorful plastic case that turns your phone into a kid-friendly camera, is that it actually answers two questions at once. First, what to do with the aforementioned old phone?; second, how do you introduce your kids (ages 3-and-up) to screens without turning them into zombies? With the case, all you have to do is pop in almost any old Android or iPhone, plug in the headphone jack, and close the kid-proof door....

Biden also announced that he would cancel up to $20,000 in student loans for those who received the Pell Grant under that income limit, and that he would extend the student loan payment pause one final time, through December 31, 2022. Nearly 75% of borrowers who receive Pell Grants, which are awarded based on financial need, are Black, and 60% of borrowers have Pell Grants. The Department of Education says that “nearly 8 million borrowers may be eligible to receive relief automatically because relevant income data is already available to the Department....

“4moms has proactively worked with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall about 2 million MamaRoo swings and 220,000 RockaRoo rockers,” the company notes in a recall notice posted on its website. The recall also includes approximately 77,700 units of MamaRoos and 10,000 RockaRoos that were imported into Canada. In an email to The New York Times, Gary Waters, chief executive of 4moms, said the company is “deeply saddened by the two incidents,” adding that the company remains committed “to the highest quality and safety....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Weed The good thing is that as cannabis becomes more available for moms and dads, so too have safe storage options to keep said stash away from young hands. Today’s boxes and medicine bags come in all shapes and sizes and range from cheap, common-sense containers, to elaborate and (occasionally) expensive innovations. But all that really matters is whether it has a lock and/or is designed to be childproof....

RELATED: The 12 Best Spelling & Reading Apps For Teaching Kids To Read Books Professor Astro Cat’s Solar System is Minilab Studios’ follow-up to Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers Of Space, a book by illustrator Ben Newman and quantum physicist Dr. Dominic Walliman, which is published by Minilab’s sister company Flying Eye Books. The app expands on the book’s introduction to outer space and astro-literacy through music and audio, animations, and interactive challenges that finally reward your kid for their exceptional knowledge of Uranus....

But the couch is coming with me, to its new corner inside my new home, a two-bedroom condo a few miles from the kids and my soon-to-be ex-wife. You see, my disgust for the couch is equaled only by my children’s love of its tattered corners, buckled padding, and assorted spots and spills. They find it comforting, which is a good quality to have in a piece of furniture. And I wanted them to be comforted....

And you know what? That’s fine. Unlike countless annoying and utterly absurd nursery rhymes (Humpty Dumpty needs to stay off that wall) or insipid quasi-song “events” like “Baby Shark,” the pureness and goodness of “Baby Beluga,” endures. It’s been 40 years since Raffi released the song, which he also wrote. To celebrate the occasion, Raffi and Yo-Yo Ma released a new recording of them playing the song live, together but apart in quarantine....

The Ring Racer is a cylindrical robot with two skinny wheels connected to an electric motor in the middle, a design that’s equally eye-catching as it is functional, as it allows the racers to self-stabilize. In other words, if it falls on its side all you have to do is hit the accelerator and the racer will automatically right itself. This feature fixes the most annoying part of remote-controlled toys, having to stoop over to reset them....

The Rollplay EZ Steer Grill N Go Food Truck is a hipster parent’s dream, a 6-volt, ride-on vehicle for kids ages 2- to 5-years-old. It has an extendable serving window for selling fake burgers and dogs. The driver-side door opens so they don’t have climb in, it features realistic sound effects, and it tops out around 1.3 mph, so there’s little danger of them tearing out of the garage and hitting the cat....

In the spring of 2017, when Roseanne returned to TV after a two-decade gap, the show was a runaway hit. But, after it had been on the air for only two months, half of the 18.2 million viewers who watched the two-episode premiere were gone. To be clear, the ratings for Roseanne dropped before Barr infamously posted racist tweets aimed a Valerie Jarrett. Why? Here’s a theory: The reason people tuned in to watch the new Roseanne was to witness a spectacle....

A good place to start developing nuanced rules for screen time is dispelling myths that, while accepted as conventional wisdom, are actually closer to old wives’ tales. Here are four misconceptions that need to go away so parents can introduce kids to technology in a responsible way. Myth #1: Interactive Learning Apps Always Help Kids Learn Faster There’s no shortage of apps that purportedly help kids learn, but they’re not all created equal....

“You’re acting crazy!” This phrase is dismissive and invalidating in the extreme. It’s also misogynistic and to your significant other that their feelings are pointless and that you are smarter than they are. It also keeps couples from communicating together, as the phrase turns the argument back on one person, placing the blame on them as opposed to working together to find a solution. Used enough times in a disagreement, and it can rupture the relationship....

So why don’t kids always think their dads are funny? Meyer thinks the reason is in our perception of our children. He points out that kids are “brutally honest” with their feedback, and that’s where things get tricky. “Like when kids acknowledge that you tried to be funny. That’s really gutting.” In a quest to entertain his children in new ways, Meyers has written the picture book I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared!...

If you listened to and loved Obama’s recent podcast with Bruce Springsteen — Renegades — I’ve got news for you, there’s something else Obama-centric that you can listen to right now that’s even better. And, like Fleabag’s laptop scene, this can let you get the power of Obama’s sage wisdom on tap whenever you want it. We’re talking about A Promised Land, Obama’s memoir, first published back in November 2020, a time so fraught and confusing, it might make sense that you didn’t feel like sitting down and reading a thoughtful memoir by the 44th President....

Economists had hoped that school reopenings in August and September would allow parents to return to the workforce. But whatever positive job growth came out of that dynamic was limited by the dramatic spike in cases caused by the delta variant and worsened by a recalcitrant minority’s refusal to mask and/or receive a COVID vaccine. The current sorry state of the recovery is all the more tragic because the Washington conventional wisdom that allowed unemployment insurance to expire turned out to be wishful thinking....

BuzzFeed asked its community to share a detail from a kids’ show that went entirely over their heads until they were older. There are a few of these moments from the show cause SpongeBob is dirtier than we realized, and it’s honestly blowing our minds. “In the Texas episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick misheard SpongeBob and thought he said, ‘Your penis is showing,’” one person shared. While the show didn’t say that in words, it makes sense, it went right by us as kids, but Patrick looked down and asked, “where?...

But much of what Chetty’s detailed, state-by-state data has revealed is data that is much more than meets the eye. Rather than relying on simple metrics like GDP, Chetty and his team of 40 other researchers and policy experts looked deep in data to launch what Bloomberg refers to as a “day-by-day, state-by-state, and even neighborhood-by-neighborhood” view of the coronavirus economy. The tracking tool was launched in May and has astronomical findings....

As states attempt to jumpstart their economies in the aftermath of the pandemic, 26 states (all but one of which have a Republican governor) have or are attempting to put a halt to unemployment benefits that were put in place due to shutdowns. The argument has always been based around job creation, with the idea that ending these benefits will encourage people to go back to work and that proved true to an extent, with states seeing a dip in unemployment....

The mental health of both moms and dads took a plunge during the pandemic, although the impact on fathers was slightly smaller. And school closures didn’t affect dads, but they were probably the cause of half of the mental health decline that mothers suffered, according to the new report from the Institute for Social & Economic Research. “This adds to a wider body of evidence showing that parents, especially mothers, have paid a heavy price during lockdown, with mothers being more likely than fathers to have left paid work, seen reductions in their working hours, and juggled work with caring responsibilities,” said Alex Beer, the welfare program head at the Nuffield Foundation in the UK....

This morning, the 11.4 million Americans who are behind on rent woke up in a country in which state agents could soon forcibly remove them and their families from their homes. In addition to the moral dubiousness—to say the least—of privileging the rights of landlords to make passive income over the rights of poor people to have shelter, blocking the eviction moratorium is primed to be a public health disaster....