Lick-A-Bubble is essentially a secret mix that gives any non-dairy beverage ⏤ be it Sunny D, Gatorade, flavored vodka ⏤ the viscosity of bubbles. It was invented by a pediatrician and food allergist and mixing a batch involves little more than pouring said favorite drink into the provided bottle and stirring/flipping for about 20 seconds. That’s it. It even works with carbonated soda. From there, simply pull out the wand and blow those bubbles everywhere....

Raffi isn’t coming out and endorsing a specific candidate or ideal in “Vote Vote Vote,” even though he’s made it pretty clear in interviews and on Twitter that he’s against fascists, and is in favor of any politicians who will lead the way on real reform involving climate change. In addition to “Vote Vote Vote,” he recently released another song, “Black Lives Matter To Me.” In other words, you can guess who Raffi is voting for, and it’s probably not the guy with all the tax problems....

In an interview with Parents, discussing her new children’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Kondo opened up about her home life with her two kids. She, too, is in the thick of parenthood, like me, and admits that even with her being so passionate about a clutter-free home, she can’t keep up either. “Kondo says she was frustrated after becoming a mom because she couldn’t keep her house in the same neat order as before she had kids,” the interviewer says in the Parents article....

The offer is only valid today at participating US McDonald’s restaurant and to find out if your local chain is offering the deal, you need to download the McDonald’’s app to your phone and register an account. There, you can search which locations are celebrating National Egg McMuffin day, which will get you a free sandwich between the hours of 6am, and 10:30am. Why today for this new promo? McDonald’s says they’re offering free Egg McMuffins to help with its goal of increasing the app’s user base, but today also happens to be when Wendy’s rolls out their breakfast menu nationwide....

William Russell wanted to find out which countries offered the best in terms of mental health supports. To find the answer, they analyzed a number of countries based on a few different factors. They looked at different metrics including countries with longer work hours, the availability of green spaces, average rainfall and temperature, leisure and personal time, and government spending on mental health. “Each country was given a normalized score out of ten for each factor, before taking an average across all the factors to reach our final score out of ten,” William Russell explained....

To promote the book, a memoir titled Becoming, Obama went on a 34-city tour. That tour is the basis for a new documentary, also titled Becoming, that’s coming to Netflix next Wednesday. The film is directed by Nadia Hallgren, a Bronx-born documentarian whose previous work includes directing She’s the Ticket, a limited documentary series about female candidates, and helping to shoot the CNN documentary We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World....

In the dash camera footage shared by Chad Cheddar Mock, who was driving behind Hassan, the rear passenger door of the 2004 gold Honda Civic opens as the car goes around a bend in the road. The two-year-old is then seen tumbling out, still fastened in her car seat. According to the criminal complaint, which was filed Thursday in the Blue Earth County District Court, Hassan, who continued driving for a few minutes before realizing her daughter was no longer in the car, was “crying and upset....

While the pictures of this bad boy pretty much speak for themselves, here are a few quick details on the MMX Marshmallow Crossbow. Construction: MMX hand-makes these things using solid Douglas Fir (covered with clear varnish) for the shaft. The trigger is black walnut, and the curved bow is hand-cut aluminum which can be laser engraved. “Puft Daddy” should strike fear into the hearts of pre-teens everywhere. Firing Distance: Using an elastic rubber shock cord, the MMX Marshmallow Crossbow a can shoot up to 60 feet....

A graph of usage of the word “parenting” over time looks like a steep slope moving up and to the right from the 1960s through the early part of the 2000s before plateauing. Lay that slope over a graph American income inequality over the same period and you’ll be looking at an almost perfect X. This inverse correlation indicates — though causality is obviously difficult to pin down — the degree to which modern notions of parenting were popularized in the context of a widening gap between the middle and upper classes....

Moderna has said that it will apply for vaccine authorization for the age group, and it couldn’t come at a more necessary time. Just a few weeks ago, after Pfizer applied for an EUA for its under-5 vaccine, the company quickly pulled its application after the two-dose regimen failed to produce enough protection against the virus in young kids, largely due to unresolved dosing issues. Now, Moderna has stepped up to get its own under-6 vaccine authorized by the FDA....

A mom, writing on the UK parenting forum Mumsnet, said that her kid was invited to a friend’s go-karting birthday. At first, she was excited, as her son was new at school and hadn’t made many friends. However, as the party approached, she was shocked to find that she was being asked to contribute more and more money to the party. She said that the mom was asking other parents to pay $23 for go-karting, which is arguably a reasonable request....

“We wanted to know if there is reliable evidence that music therapy produces lasting effects on core symptoms of autism,” coauthor on the study Christian Gold of the Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre in Bergen, Norway told Fatherly. “The present study was much larger and more rigorously designed than previous studies.” As Gold notes, researchers have attempted to make a case for the benefits of music therapy for autistic children for some time....

This episode of “My Kid the…” explores the medium of being born into your parents world and passing down the torch from father to son, while seeking to the meaning of music in their lives as part of their relationship, and having enough time to be a regular child. New episodes of “My Kid The” every Wednesday on YouTube.

The other night, my husband and I were getting drunk off fernet branca while watching Friends, as one does, and it was the episode where Rachel refuses to go to one of Ross’s dinosaur museum benefits for one reason or another (I could google it, but honestly, they’re all the same and I’m not 100 percent convinced that Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston aren’t the same person, so why bother?...

To recap: Hunter Biden worked for an oil and gas company in Ukraine, making egregious sums of money while his father was Vice President. That employment was investigated by Ukrainian anti-corruption officials and there was found to be no wrongdoing. Still, President Trump urged Ukrainian officials to open up another investigation into Hunter — or else he would not administer aid to the country, a quid pro quo of sorts, leveraging international funds to benefit him in the national election....

Okay, so possible spoilers coming at you faster than Cap grabbed Thor’s hammer in Endgame. Seriously, this might be big, so look away if you don’t want to know what might have happened in between Endgame and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Okay, so Marvel fans on Reddit have taken a look at these new officially released photos from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and have all asked the same question: Why is Sam Wilson wearing a formal suit and holding the Captain America shield in this photo?...

Owleez, with its wide eyes, looks like an offspring of the L.O.L. Surprise! family of toys, with a splash of Hatchimals nurturing thrown in for some added oomph. As with Hatchimals, this thing doesn’t just provide instant gratification. Nope, your kids have to work for it by caring for the creature. First, kids take care of the little owl, until she grows acclimated to her environment. They feed her. They pet her....

“It’s essential to kids’ healthy development that we give them our focused attention–not every minute of the day, of course, but regularly, preferably every day,” marriage and family therapist Jill Whitney told Fatherly. Ultimately, children have terrible sense of boundaries and will take all 24 hours of the day if you let them. But if you use the following, evidence-based tools you’ll be able to generate more quality—instead of quantity time....

“I would like to modify the word ‘push’ because that carries baggage,” says Dr. Jim Taylor, sports psychologist and author of Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child. “Pushing suggests an agenda based on the parent’s needs rather than the best interests of the child… I think the better way to put it is to encourage them.” Why You Should Force Your Kids to Play Sports To be clear, parents should force their kids to play a sport as opposed to forcing them to play a specific sport....