It’s not that you don’t care. You love your partner and feel you show it in the ways you know how. But obviously, they crave more and you’re stuck because their particular love language of words of affirmation and physical touch might not be one you speak very well. Being a parent doesn’t help with motivation, either. If you are a stay at home dad or work from home, your day is moving from task to task, with kids constantly making demands and hanging all over you....

So pop on your Everest ears birthday party hats, get out your Paw Patrol invitations, and tell the kids to come dressed as their favorite dog to the party. Be forewarned, the kids that show up as cats, like those on the show, are probably up to no good. Paw Patrol Decorations: Whether you’re having the party outside or inside, set up a puppy play area with green carpet (like this), blow-up trees, and plastic hydrants....

When I was a kid living in suburban Philadelphia, Archie McPhee existed only as a catalog that arrived every month. In its pages, I found monster finger puppets, rabbi trading cards, and Godzilla wind-up toys. I also found my people. The message of the messy manual was clear: “You are not alone you little weirdo!” This was something I desperately needed to hear. From the ages of, say, 8 to 14, I spent all my allowance money on Archie McPhee products....

But even if they’re not, our kids are fully internet literate — and have some of the most user-friendly tech on their hands. Really, they have no idea how good they have it. Long gone are the days of AOL boot-ups and massive, 30-pound computers, of blocking the phone line when you surfed the world wide wibe. These kids these days have no idea how good they have it — not only because the internet wasn’t fast – but our computers were dead slow....

Johnson & Johnson, for example, faces approximately 38,000 lawsuits over its talcum powder products, according to Reuters. And two years after transitioning away from talc-based products in the U.S., Johnson & Johnson recently announced that it will be discontinuing its talc-based baby powder, moving to all cornstarch-based baby powder by 2023 — although the company denies that this decision has anything to do with safety concerns. “But studies and expert opinions still fall on both sides of the argument,” says Morgan Statt, a health and safety investigator with ConsumerSafety....

“There are risks, but you manage those risks.” It’s understandable why someone who struggles with chronic depression would have concerns about pregnancy and parenthood. There’s evidence that depression can have genetic roots and that, regardless, being raised by depressed parents increases the risk of depression for kids. Depressed pregnant mothers are more likely to develop gestational diabetes and hypertension, and more likely to miss OBGYN appointments. Infants born to depressed mothers have predispositions to sleep problems, attachment issues, and learning and behavioral disorders....

This year’s deadline, which was pushed to April 18th due to the Washington D.C. area Emancipation Day holiday, which recognizes the day that Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in the nation’s capital, is the earliest it’s been in several years. In 2019, the deadline, which is typically April 15th, was extended to July. And last year, the IRS pushed the deadline to mid-May due to pandemic-related tax woes. This year, many last-minute-filers were expecting another deadline extension, while others were putting off what they assumed was an inevitable tax bill, and still others were just honestly confused about many aspects of this confusing tax year....

Speaking to Vogue, Jennifer confirmed that she and her husband, Cooke Maroney, welcomed a little boy in February. Now, as a mom, and one of the first interviews she’s given since birth, she spoke about how her little boy changed her world. “It’s so scary to talk about motherhood. Only because it’s so different for everybody,” she admitted. “If I say, ‘It was amazing from the start,’ some people will think, ‘It wasn’t amazing for me at first,’ and feel bad....

So as she walks through a challenging divorce with Kanye West, her husband of seven years, she’s putting the needs of their four children first. And for her, that means several different things—one of those being her co-parenting relationship with Kanye and his name. This week, Kanye West filed court papers, seeking a legal name change for himself. According to BuzzFeed, Kanye wants to change his name to “Ye” – no middle name, no last name, a la Prince....

Kit recently spoke at PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly’s photo and video studio at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival to talk about his new film, Baby Ruby. And he spoke about how he channeled his real-life experience as a dad in his new role. “I think there was real catharsis in this,” the new dad said. “My baby boy was about four months or five months old when we filmed this, so I had just come out of the process that these two [characters] find themselves in of early parenthood, so I was literally exploring that in this movie....

KOSKI is a 21st-century, STEM toy twist on classic building blocks. Kids can build a structure using the magnetic, Jenga-esque blocks IRL. Point the iPad (sorry, the “magic mirror”) at the elevated game board so that the camera’s object recognition software can do its thing and it becomes an interactive video game. Trees grow out of blocks. Waterfalls pour off ledges. Place one of the colored coins on the board, and an animated character climbs out of a manhole....

And now Kristen Bell is speaking up about it, too. She, too, is on the team “only bathe when needed.” Here’s what she said. Kristen and her husband Dax Shepard have two kids, 8-year-old Lincoln, and 6-year-old Delta. The two haven’t shied away from telling some parenting truths that many celebrities won’t. And their bathing schedule for their kids was the latest piece of parenting advice they dropped. Kristen and Dax were guests on The View recently, and the conversation Dax had on his podcast, Armchair Expert, with Ashton and Mila about the bathing routine for their kids came up....

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For the unaware, tampons and pads are medically required to be changed every four to six hours. Obviously, one tampon a day does not meet that medical requirement. After the migrant teens bled through that, they had to take it out or extend their usage of the period product at risk of developing Toxic Shock Syndrome, a condition that can kill people. People who get toxic shock can have fever, low blood pressure, and diarrhea, break out in a rash, get muscle aches, experience confusion, have seizures, and can die....

Much like the Mack Anthem, this latest collaborative drop from Lego Technic was designed in conjunction with the actual company, Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. Which means it clearly doesn’t lack for realism. It’s a 1:8 scale, 3,599-piece replica loaded with authentic features like an engine with moving pistons, an eight-speed gearbox with movable paddle gearshift, detailed disc brakes, steering wheel adorned with the Bugatti emblem, and spoked rims with low-profile tires....

Each of these spacecraft has been released before, but these tweaked versions come with a limited edition minifigure and souvenir stand with a special 20th-anniversary logo. The combinations don’t make a ton of sense, storywise (we’re not sure why Luke Skywalker is included in the podracing set from before he was born, for instance), but more minifigures in a set is always good news, so we’re not complaining. The bad news is that these sets won’t be available until later this year....

Using data compiled through the American Heart Association’s new Life’s Essential 8 heart health scoring system, researchers determined that less than 30% of children aged 2 to 19 have high cardiovascular health (CVH). Kids with high cardiovascular health are less likely to have subclinical cardiovascular disease in middle age. And as children age, their heart health tends to decline, according to the study, which included nearly 14,000 adult and 10,000 child participants who did not have cardiovascular disease....

Dropped this month at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, the ProBeam projector is parent-perfect for two reasons: First, it weighs just north of 4.5 pounds and easily fits in your hand. So, while not Cinemood small, still uber-portable. Which means you can tote it around the house, to backyard movie night, or on the big summer car camping adventure in your new Skycamp rooftop tent. Second, it uses lasers to throw 2,000 lumens of brightness and full HD (1080p) images up on the wall....

According to Variety, Pixar has reportedly added back a same-sex kiss scene that was cut from the upcoming Buzz Lightyear origin story. The change of heart and decision to add the quick scene back in came after employees at Pixar Animation Studios sent a statement calling out the leadership at Walt Disney Company. In the statement, the employees claimed executives had actively censored “overtly gay affection” in its films – even before Lightyear....