Titled, “Suggested Guidelines for Parents Who Are Divorced/Separated And Sharing Custody of Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” the document provides simple guidelines for co-parents to follow in this time of social distancing and states of emergency. The seven rules provide practical advice and some clarity for how to handle custody agreements and court orders. They also call for generosity and empathy, two things that we all very much need to have right now....

We spoke to Roseanne Lesack, Ph.D., a child psychologist and director of the Unicorn Children’s Foundation Clinic at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, about five things that parents can do to instill confidence in their kids. They Tie Their Kid’s Work Ethic to Their Success Parents should always compliment their kid’s work ethic, even if they don’t get an A on the math test or win the soccer game. When parents praise kids for the effort they’ve made, rather than the results of that effort, kids develop a healthy self-confidence that’s tied to their pride in being a hardworking person....

Brief history lesson: The “final” X-Men movie released by Fox was Dark Phoenix, which, more or less, concluded the stories of the “younger” X-Men cast who first appeared in X-Men: First Class in 2011. However, Evan Peters didn’t join the X-Men as Peter Maximoff until 2014’s Days of Future Past. He also appeared in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, and briefly appears in Dark Phoenix, too. His role in the final (and critically savaged) X-Mean movie may have been tiny, but he still did a decent amount of press for the film....

Whining Whining is a strategy that kids use because it works. Start by telling them that whining isn’t going to work anymore, and — here’s the hard part — stick to it. That means not giving them what they want when they whine for it. Say something like “Because you whined, it’s an automatic no.” But don’t stop there, coach them on a better strategy to get what they want: “Try asking in your regular voice next time....

Oh, speaking of the holy grail. Yesterday, in fact, was Holy Thursday, the Christian holiday that commemorates the Last Supper. At that final meal Jesus shared with his apostles before dying on the cross, he drank from the holy chalice. Today is Good Friday. Sunday is Easter. This is the holiest stretch of the Catholic calendar. It also coincides, as it often does, with the start of Passover, an extremely important holiday for those of the Jewish faith....

My wife and I weren’t doing much better. Parenting had been easy in the hospital. The nurses did the majority of it. Out in the real world, we took L after L. We stayed up with Rory for hours into the night, begging him to eat, pleading with him to poop. Caitlin had trouble breastfeeding. We downloaded an app that “Ubered” us a lactation consultant who informed us our son had a “lip and tongue tie....

Your own Dude to Dad is battling with his first truly sick baby this week. My son Rory has had reflux, colds, and some other health odds and ends. But this is the first time we’ve taken him to the pediatrician and gotten a diagnosis. The boy has been stricken by Bronchiolitis which sounds positively Dickensian. “Sorry, mum. I wish I could work me shift in the button factory, but I’ve got a case of the Bronchiolitis!...

COVID-19 pandemic may be reversing that trend, as children are likely to be exercising less, struggling with food insecurity, and unable to access school foods. Across the country, in-person schools are either closed completely or for only a few days a week, and sports and gym classes sidelined for those kids, problems for children have compounded. Add that to the fact that kids are forced to spend more time indoors, and the coronavirus worsening pre-existing health and income disparities, experts predict that COVID-19 could once again put childhood obesity on the rise....

Because we’ve all be there, and dealt with the ensuing meltdown when your batteries die mid-action, and you’re the loser without a replacement set. Kids do not take this lightly, and neither should you. It’s a wise rule that you should never get caught without enough juice. Today’s rechargeable batteries are affordable enough so that you can buy many, ensuring that you’ll have enough to get you where you need to go....

Emilia Clarke, who played Daenerys Targaryen for the entire run of the show, doesn’t give a shit. At the Emmys last night, Clarke was asked if she was bothered by the often lukewarm or negative reactions to how Thrones ended. She was not. Not even a little bit. “You know what? It was profoundly flattering is what it was because when someone cares that much that they’re ready to make such a noise about how they believe the characters should’ve been finished and how the story should’ve gone....

To make sure you start 2021 off on the right foot, here are 10 financial tips to help you ensure that your finances are buttoned up before the end of year arrives. 1. Perform a cash-flow analysis The end of the year is a great time to give your finances a thorough check-up, says Jonathan Drubner a Los Angeles-based wealth advisor with Intersect Capital. He recommends pouring over your past few bank statements and credit card bills to discover how much you’re spending in a typical month....

The move comes more than four years after the Trump administration first opted not to ban the pesticide, a neurotoxin that the Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration (OSHA), the government agency tasked with creating healthy work environments for employees, has linked to harming the development of children along with symptoms like “nausea, vomiting, headaches, dizziness, seizures, and paralysis.” In a statement, EPA administrator Michael Regan said that the step was “overdue… to protect public health....

Disney pushed a ton of new family-friendly fare already released in theaters to Disney+ early, everything from Onward, which was only in theaters for a month, to Frozen II to Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. Artemis Fowl skipped theaters altogether, and Hamilton will do the same when it hits the service more than a year before it was due to come to theaters. Other films released just before the pandemic, including Birds of Prey, also came to on-demand earlier than expected....

If you and your partner are struggling with how to overcome infertility and add a member to your family, surrogacy may be right for you despite the hoops through which you’ll have to jump. Here’s everything you need to know about surrogacy to help you make your decision. Surrogacy Basics The surrogacy process at its most basic is 4 steps: Finding a surrogate mother, fertilization and/or embryo implantation; pregnancy; delivery and return home In the United States, surrogacy has been around in the legal sense since only 1976....

When does Gabby’s Dollhouse Season 4 drop? The new season of Gabby’s Dollhouse hits Netflix on February 1, 2022. In the new trailer, it looks like we’re getting more adventures with Kitty Fairy as well as literal fairies themselves. If your little is already a fan of Gaby’s Dollhouse, the good news is clear: This show will deliver its reliably upbeat messages combined with songs that won’t drive you nuts. (And if it drives you a little nuts, we think it’s worth it....

According to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who spoke to CNN on Sunday, June 27, states with low rates of vaccination, and low rates of infection, will be slammed by the virus. Communities that have low rates of vaccination are less protected against COVID-19. This is doubly true when those communities are also ones that had low rates of infection during the beginning of the pandemic. A double whammy takes place. After all, natural immunity to COVID-19 has been a major player in the lower rates of infection alongside vaccine rates....

According to ABC7 News, this year marks the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, featuring 28 floats, 12 marching bands, 800 clowns, ten performance groups, 16 giant character balloons, and 40 heritage and novelty inflatables. Plus, of course, Santa Claus — and Bluey. “As one of the most popular characters in children’s entertainment today, we could not be more excited to welcome Bluey, all the way from Australia, to the 96th Macy’s Parade line-up,” Jordan Dabby, producer of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade said....

An answer appeared to be on track after the Abbott formula plant linked to 9 infant deaths that shuttered in February restarted production 13 days ago after months of delay and investigation. But now a massive flood has shut down that same plant, sending hope of a sure domestic fix back into question. For most of us, it is be hard to believe this could happen in the U.S. at all....

And now we can add another to the list: Mr. Rogers thought farts were funny. We have this tantalizing piece of information thanks to Joanne Rogers, his wife from 1952 until his death in 2003. She’s become something of a legacy protector since she lost her husband, and part of that role is serving as a consultant on Rogers projects like A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. The writers of that film approached Joanne to get her blessing for their project, which tells the story of journalist Tom Junod’s relationship with Rogers, played by Tom Hanks....

If you’re on TikTok, you’ve more than likely come across a video like this. These parents are practicing gentle parenting, a parenting approach that builds on authoritative parenting, which is regarded as the healthiest of the four parenting styles to emerge from the work of Diana Baumrind, Ph.D., a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research from the 1960s still provides the definitive framework for understanding parenting styles today....