Yet many find their impression of the Millennium Falcon’s co-pilot either falls woefully short 0r is just downright embarrassing. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. It turns out, there are actually tips out there that can help even the most stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder tighten up their best Chewie. And we rounded up the best ones here. Like rolling your Rs, the key to pulling off a convincing Chewbacca roar ⏤ which reportedly was a mix of walrus, tiger, and camel sounds, among other animals ⏤ is the proper position of your tongue....

Prep Time: 20 minutes Entertainment Time: 10-15 minutes, depending on how many balloons you blow up ahead of time.Energy Expended by Child: A lot What You’ll Need: Balloons.String, scissors, and painters tape. How to Play: The biggest drawback to ‘Balloon Stomp’ is that it requires you to blow up all the balloons. And the amount of fun is partially dependent upon how many balloons you can inflate. The more balloons, the more rounds in the game, the more fun everybody has....

It didn’t necessarily work as planned but our daughter ⏤ who’s a huge fan of animals and Daniel Tiger’s make-believe time ⏤ loved it and wanted to play constantly. Since then, it’s become our go-to time killer before daycare on mornings when we’re dressed and fed ahead of schedule. It’s all imaginative and requires little more than a closet in which to pretend to sleep and a room around which to crawl, and thus it’s perfect for wasting short amounts of time on the fly....

Fray, a writer and now relationship coach, became well known for his 2016 Huffington Post article, “She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By the Sink,” which was read and shared millions of times. In it, he discusses how he had a habit of leaving his drinkware by the sink because it wasn’t a big deal to him. But it was a big deal to his wife. Did his marriage truly end because of this infraction?...

Don’t Worry About a Bottle Sterilizer…Or How to Sterilize a Baby Bottle At All Hot, soapy water is sufficient for sanitizing a bottle, and sterilizing baby bottles on a regular basis isn’t necessary. If you opt to let the dishwasher clean your baby bottles, make sure each piece —caps, nipples, sealing rings, valves — are thoroughly rinsed under running water before being loaded. Small bottle pieces should be placed in a closed-top basket or mesh laundry bag....

This, of course, only illustrates the extent of America’s problem with automated phone calls. If the chief of the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, which oversees rule making efforts regarding issues including robocalls, is himself a repeated victim, are any of us safe from the annoyance? The stats back it up: In 2017, there were around 30.7 billion robocalls made. The following year? Almost 48 billion. If you were to do the math, the average American would receive a machine-operated call approximately every other day....

Fast forward to the morning of the trip. The car was packed. Our friends were en route. Theoretically, we were ready to go too, but I was paralyzed with fear. I sat on the couch holding our seven-pound daughter, combing the internet for advice on how to keep her warm on a night that threatened to drop into the 30s, or whether her tiny lungs could handle the oxygen-thin air of Colorado’s mountains....

Which is why we caught up with Emily Campbell, a veteran Boy Scout leader and certified Leave No Trace outdoor trainer, to get some tips on building fires ⏤ specifically, tips for teaching kids how to build fires that’ll start every time. Here is her step-by-step guide. Be conscious of your child’s age Every child is different, and you know yours better than anybody. Younger children may only be ready to help gather wood, while others are chomping at the bit to strike that match....

“What we say in the industry is that 99 percent of all fights are 100 percent avoidable,” explains martial arts instructor Jason Zakrajsek, a Gracie Jiu-Jitsu black belt and owner of Kuk Sul Do Academy in Chagrin Falls. “Unless someone is absolutely physically attacking you, most everything can be resolved by verbal assertion, verbal de-escalation, or simply walking away.” Zakrajsek is adamant that verbal assertion or de-escalation is one of the pillars of self-defense that is often skipped by well-meaning parents and anti-bullying advocates....

Who did you yell at? An entire room of co-workers. What happened? This day in particular, a lot of the VPs were out of the office and everyone was just goofing off. It was like romper room on the floor all morning long. There was just a lot of joking and running around. And it just set you off? I was on my fourth director in almost as many years at this job, and the new one was an absolute beast....

President Biden has plans for these problems, many of which are already articulated, prioritized, and laid out in his Build Back Better Plan, a social infrastructure package that would radically expand the social safety net and change families’ lives. It would give parents access to paid leave, subsidize child care, reinstall the wildly popular child tax credit and face the affordable housing crisis in the country, for starters. That plan is still stalled in the halls of Congress....

Daisy Emilia arrived at 26 weeks, three months shy of her expected due date. We were told that fewer than one percent of babies are born that early in America and that we should feel lucky she survived. But we didn’t feel lucky. We felt fear, anxiety, confusion, and maybe even anger. Never luck, even though we were lucky. Babies born less than 25 weeks of gestation have a lower survival rate than those who are 25 weeks and up because their lungs lack the ability to produce surfactant, which helps the tissue to absorb oxygen....

Well, the universe heard us because at 20 months old, our little girl is a whirling dervish – forever in a state of dancing, laughing, babbling, running, playing, and jumping. It’s as if sitting still for more than a few seconds will cause her to spontaneously combust. Raising my daughter has been a series of lessons in how different introverts and extroverts really are. Here’s what I’ve learned as an introvert parenting an extrovert....

Despite fiber’s long list of benefits, most American children don’t get enough of it in their diets, even though many kid-favorite foods are rich sources. Apples, pears, berries, bananas, raw broccoli, carrots, oatmeal, popcorn, sweet potatoes — all chockfull of fiber. Why? Because, frankly, they need to eat more of the above. And as any parent knows, that’s not always easy to implement. To calculate how much dietary fiber your child needs each day, just remember the number five....

When you have a good one, those planners are worth their weight in gold. But when you’re getting one-size-fits-all service or questionable investment guidance? All of a sudden, it can start to feel like the fees you’re paying are being sucked into a black hole. So how do you know when it’s time to end your relationship with your financial advisor? Here are some of the tell-tale signs — and how to find an advisor that meets your needs....

Just the Bat-Facts In 2022, Michael Keaton will indeed reprise his role as Bruce Wayne in the DCEU movie The Flash, which will apparently feature a bunch of zany multi-verse action. The implication is that Keaton will, in theory, crossover from the continuity of his ’80s and ’90s films, Batman and Batman Returns. That said, it’s also possible that Keaton will be playing another version of Bruce Wayne who is simply older, and exists in a universe different than the one Ben Affleck’s Batman shares with Ezra Miller’s Flash....

At its core, the JogAlong stroller is a fixed-wheel running stroller with a big perk: the handlebars swing, elliptical-style, so you can swing your arms and maintain proper running form. It also has pneumatic tires (16-in. front/20-in. rear), reflective sidewalls, a sturdy aluminum frame, and all the standard bells and whistles expected of today’s joggers. There’s also a five-point safety harness, adjustable suspension, rear drum brakes (plus fixed parking brake), and a three-position wind shade with Peek-a-boo window....

Le Carre’s career spanned parts of seven decades, from the 1960s to 2020. He wrote more than two dozen books, with 10 of them featuring his most popular character, George Smiley, an intelligence officer created as something of a far more realistic James Bond type. Smiley stood front and center in such Cold War cloak-and-dagger sagas as Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People, and factored into The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Looking Glass War, The Secret Pilgrim, and A Legacy of Spies (his final Smiley installment, published in 2017)....

Rotondo alleged that the refusal of his 16-week parental leave was due to the fact that JPMorgan only offered that amount of leave to the primary care provider, which the company presumed to be a child’s mother. In Rotondo’s case, JPMorgan claimed he was not the primary caregiver because his wife, a teacher, was at home for the summer and fully capable of taking care of the baby. That decision ran afoul of sex discrimination rules established by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission....

What is a Full Buck Moon? According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, July’s Buck Moon gets its name from the antlers that buck deer grow around this time of year. “Bucks shed and regrow their antlers each year,” the site explains, “producing a larger and more impressive set as the years go by.” Because antlers emerging is such a visible nature event in July, it makes sense to name the full moon after it — similar to May’s Flower Moon....