According to ET, George admitted that his 5-year-old son, Alexander, isn’t impressed with him being a famous movie star. George spoke with CBS Mornings and shared a hilarious story about his son’s favorite superhero, Batman. “Alexander’s favorite superhero is Batman, and I say, ‘What’s your favorite superhero?’ and he goes ‘Batman,’” George said. “And I say, ‘You know, I was Batman.’ and he goes, ‘Yeah, but not anymore.’ If only he knew how true that was....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to In-Laws Dr. Fran Walfish, author of The Self-Aware Parent, regular expert child psychologist on The Doctors, and co-star on Sex Box, regularly handles in-law conflict in her practice. And she often encounters patients talking about in-laws overstepping boundaries and butting into issues that are none of their business. Some in-laws, she says, tend to engage in what’s called “conditional love,” the concept of giving gifts with the unspoken understanding that said gifts translate to voting or (worse yet) veto power in family decisions....

But it’s still very early on, and Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, told CNN that “there’s no reason to panic.” So… don’t panic. But there are some things we know already, which you should know to protect your family as we head into the end of the year. What is the Omicron variant? The Omicron variant is the latest “version” of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19....

The news that the income limits won’t be changed for stimulus checks from the Trump administration to the current ones might seem like a no-news story, but it actually isn’t. For a few weeks, the Democrats floated giving the checks to fewer people, which had many critics who believed they already reneged on a promise to send out $2,000 payments angry. And while the $2,000 standalone checks are still not happening, and the $1,400 payment is, the good news is that the stimulus payment requirements are not changing....

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I hesitated for a second before answering. Over the last couple of years, I’ve grown increasingly curious about the tendency of local McDonald’s employees, which is to say greater Cleveland area McDonald’s employees, to ask me the gender of my children. It strikes me as curiously out of step with the national discourse on gender. It’s not that my boys don’t want the “boy” toys that they are given. They very much do....

Most toddler don’t need the full quantity of milk that the AAP recommends. But if they’re a picky eater, it could be keep them from becoming malnourished. That’s no small consideration. It’s common knowledge that milk contains calcium, vitamin A, vitamin D, and a healthy mix of fats. But it also comes with some problems. Dairy is fairly high in natural sugars, and its consumption has been linked with allergies, eczema, acne, and digestive issues....

But the thing is, you don’t get to decide which of these people you hang out with. Your kid decides for you. Because the people you will inevitably spend time with are the ones with kids that your kid likes. These are “other parents” and it’s the luck of the draw whether you’ll dig them or not. So what happens when you can’t deal with the other parents you’re forced to see all the time?...

“Parenting issues are one of the common things married couples disagree on,” says Dr. Lori Whatley, a marriage and family therapist based in Atlanta. “And it’s important to know that parental conflict can have a negative impact on your kids.” Opposing parenting styles are almost to be expected in a marriage. A parental unit is formed by two separate people who were formed by different backgrounds, beliefs, and parental figures of their own....

“Foreseeing what they wake up for and then trying to make them as self-sufficient as possible really does help,” explains American Academy of Pediatrics spokesperson Dr. Corinn Cross. She notes that the core strategy of dealing with late-night complaints that will wake a kid up is keeping them contained in their room or bed. “If a kid is going to wake up and walk down the hall to you they are going to be way more awake than if they wake up and just take care of it themselves....

Here’s the thing: There is no such muscle group called “lower abdominals.” There are in fact a series of muscles that make up your core including the rectus abdominis, a pair of parallel muscles that attach at your lower ribs and pubic bone and lie vertically on either side of your midline, and your obliques, which sit just outside the rectus abdominis on either side of your body. It is the lower end of these two pairs of muscles that you are probably referring to when you say “lower abs,” says Darin Hulslander, a certified functional strength and performance coach at This Is Performance in Chicago....

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: single parents are heroes. I just spent the last 6 days alone with my 14-month-old daughter because my wife had to go out of town for work, and I nearly lost my mind. That sounds dramatic, I know, but I thought it. I even went so far as to say it out loud as I was walking away from my screaming child and into an empty room so I could hear myself think — and say — such dramatic things: “I am losing my f–king mind right now....

As things began to open up again and her grandmother received the COVID-19 vaccine, Pilar’s parents began to hear a new signature phrase from her: “I don’t want to go.” Not to her gymnastics class, not to the grocery store, not even to the outdoor patio of her favorite restaurant. After all the events of the past year, 7-year-old Pilar was apprehensive and worried about reengaging with the world outside her close-knit family....

My first job as a new dad was choosing a recovery room at a Manhattan hospital known for luxury accommodations. It was the dead of night. I was exhausted and unsure about our insurance coverage, so I opted for a lower-tier option. Months later, our insurance covered the room but, because of a billing error that took months to resolve, didn’t cover basic care. Sorting out the cost of birth was confusing and stressful....

“Everyone responds to different sensory information in different ways,” says Amy Baez, a pediatric occupational therapist and the founder of Playapy. “Some children (and even adults) have a low threshold for certain information, so they respond negatively to this information much quicker than a typical child would.” The threshold of overstimulation can vary due to a number of factors, including if a child is on the autism spectrum, but even children with typical high stimuli thresholds can be overstimulated if the stimulation is sustained for long periods of time....

Girls have a particular issue with their knees when it comes to sports, explains Ali Flury, Program Manager with Safe Kids Worldwide. “Girls for whatever reason have a higher inclination of ACL tears,” she says. “They are eight times as likely as boys to tear their ACLs.” There are hypotheses, but no definitive research, to explain the phenomenon. Some theories suggest that hormonal fluctuations in girls might affect tendons in females differently than males....

History suggests that cynics are frequently wrong and research suggests that cynicism can lead to poor health outcomes, increasing heart disease risk and dementia. Interpersonal stress is also a common issue for cynics, as is the tendency to undermine or ignore support from friends, family and colleagues. It’s a bad lifestyle. That said, skepticism can be calming. Skeptics have tools to interrogate their experiences methodically and unemotionally. This allows for a sort of practical stoic approach to decision-making....

That said, if your kid wants the glory of being an unstoppable wall at shortstop, or the joy of turning a double play at second base, they’re going to need to know how to properly field a ground ball. And to teach them, Fatherly asked Mike Belmont, a pitching-and-fielding coach and the camp director at The Baseball Center in Manhattan. He’s spent years coaching baseball fundamentals and has developed a simple five-step system to teach kids the basics of how to field ground balls....

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This meteor shower, called the Ursids, has the potential to be a big show, producing as many as five to 10 meteors per hour. If catching these sky shows is a fun tradition with the kids, or you’re looking for something different to do this December as the holidays ramp up, here’s everything you need to know. What are the Ursids meteors? You’re not alone if you’ve never heard of the Ursids meteor....