In an adorable viral TikTok, 2-year-old TJ was caught sticky-handed while lying to try and save himself from trouble. In the viral video, TJ’s dad confronted the little boy after finding some missing frosting on the cupcakes that were in the kitchen. “Who did this, TJ?” the dad asks the toddler while holding a package of cupcakes. At least two of the dessert treats had all their frosting swiped off....
Formerly, Paramount+ was known as “CBS All Access,” but as of March 4, those days are over! Here’s what you need to know about getting Paramount+ (and to check if you already have it.) In the meantime, Fatherly is happy to present this exclusive clip from SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run. In it, we’re introduced to a DIY robot restaurant owner named Otto. Let’s just say he’s not the greatest or most helpful robot you’ve ever met....
Divorce isn’t always the answer, though. Some couples have found ways to live together as a family for the kids’ sake, while not being together as a couple. They act as co-parents but otherwise go about their lives separately. Will it work for everybody? God, no. But some couples make it work. Melanie Crawford and her husband, Warren, separated several years ago but still live together and parent their three kids....
But when you quit pot? The end result has similar benefits for concentration and sleep especially. If you’re a fairly heavy user, you’ll likely find that work is easier and the life is actually less stressful. But it will take some time to get there. The journey to abstaining from pot is less linear, and so staying away from pot, with no relapses, might be a bit more difficult than alcohol — especially if you’ve developed a dependency....
I was asking our sons aged 5 and 7-years-old what it was they’d like to do for chores over the next few days. I was asking this in the hope that this would make them feel like they had agency and incentivize them to engage with the new weekly chore chart I was putting together. What I should have assumed is that my wife already had an idea for the chore chart dreamed up....
“We’re living through an unprecedented time, so there’s little pandemic-related data that speaks to that per se,” says Ethan Kross, Ph.D., professor and founder of the Emotion & Self-Control Lab at the University of Michigan and author of Chatter: The Voices in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It. “But we can make best guesses based on what research has shown about what tends to help couples thrive....
In Denise White’s capacity as a professional foster parent working with the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division, she is tasked with providing a home for girls between the ages of 13 and 17 who have experienced hardships. These are chronic runaways, children that have experienced violence, and children who have had problems at school. Adversity is a given. Denise is a stay at home mom by profession, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week....
RELATED: How to Build a Birth Plan The two most common occurrences in childbirth that derail a couple’s original plan are needing to induce labor and switching gears from a vaginal delivery to a cesarean delivery. Godwin, who runs the site Labor Mom & Beyond, says that most women (and men) have the idea that a woman’s body is just going to go into labor naturally. That’s not always the case, especially for brand new parents....
Judy Singer, an autistic sociologist, coined the term ‘neurodiversity’ in the late 1990s. She used it to frame brain differences, such as those found in autistic people, as something to be embraced as part of natural human diversity rather than something to be cured. From this viewpoint, people who are neurodivergent — those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and other developmental disorders — are a valuable part of society, and they should be recognized as such....
A lot of 20th-century studies of men’s sexual health focused on their propensity for sexual violence (like this 1991 study that followed the arousal patterns of 60 college-aged men), what kind of men pay for sex (see this 2004 Australian study), and what causes their erectile dysfunction (an ongoing inquiry that has been fascinating scholars since 1668). Studies in the last few decades, however, show that men in general care greatly about their partner’s pleasure and have much deeper emotional needs than was acknowledged in the past....
There’s a reason most of us don’t recall growing up with as many autistic kids as there are now: Many more children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder today than ever before. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, autism now affects 1 in 59 children, compared to 1 in 88 kids in 2008 and 1 in 150 children in 2000. Part of this astonishing increase is due to heightened awareness of the disorder and more accurate diagnoses....
Fatherly spoke to a variety of military dads about their service, their families, and how they managed to balance the two. Here, Army First Lieutenant Jeremy Boeh, a father of three, explains the difficulty of serving when you have young children, missing first moments when thousands of miles away, and how he deals with the guilt. — I deployed for 15 months in 2007 to 2009 and came back for about six months before deploying again....
Conducted by Promundo, the “State of Nordic Fathers” report is based on a survey of 7515 people, evenly distributed between Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, and Norway. It was done in partnership with Promundo’s 2019 “State of the World’s Fathers”, a massive report on fathers from 40 countries about fatherhood, gender identity, and paternity leave, and contains responses from more than 3,099 fathers and 1,646 mothers. The aim of the survey was to compare the attitudes and opinions of parents who took different lengths of leave....
The reality, thankfully, is much less alarming. America has the lowest crime rate in decades — less than half of what it was in 1991 — and many current parents rode their bikes alone around their neighborhoods in the 1990s without the safety net of cellphones or GPS tracking devices. Parents need to recognize that—despite what our news feeds might indicate— children today are less likely to fall victim to some terrible act or accident than kids were a generation ago....
Eating outside the home with pregnant partners more often. (Because it’s not like you’re going to say no to her Buffalo Wild Wings cravings. Or her Cheesecake Factory cravings. Or her Dairy Queen cravings. Or…)The explosion of new snack options in the house. (Because you need the ingredients for that peanut-butter-pickle-Dorito-sandwich around if you’re going to make them on demand.)An overwhelming desire to make their partners feel better about their own weight gain....
Although it’s unclear just when “daddy” found its way into the sexual lexicon, it’s been a fetish for a lot longer than one might assume. “It’s definitely not a new thing,” says Dulcinea Pitagora, a sex therapist and co-founder of the AltSexNYC Conference. “I would say it’s been going on for multiple decades.” Some say the use of daddy during sex goes even further back than that. According to one report, slang use of the word “daddy” dates back to 1681, when prostitutes began adopting the term as a way to refer to their pimps....
Although much has been made in the way of social critiques that highlight the term and its problems, these critiques are not often met with rigorous scientific studies. After all, it’s hard to quantify whether or not these terms and toys actually do harm to kids, and if so, the extent to which they do. There have been few longitudinal studies that link kids choices with the language their parents use and their outcomes later on in life....
And of course, our favorite Christmas movie actor, Will Ferrell, is fixing the one thing missing from most Christmas Carol adaptations: Don’t focus on Scrooge so much! On Wednesday, October 12, Apple TV+ released the first trailer for the upcoming holiday movie Spirited. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell, and it’s a modern twist to the classic story of Scrooge being visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future....
Unlike Angela Hayes, the zeitgeist has girls like Cassie, Kat, Maddy, and Jules on Euphoria. Now, that the show has completed its first season, we can see it for what it is: an edgy and provocative teen drama that feels part-music video, part-Greg Araki film. It’s dark and satirical, but unlike its equally visually stunning predecessor — American Beauty — Euphoria is more concerned with deconstructing the male gaze than bizarrely pandering to it....
Prep Time: About 10 minutes. Entertainment Time: Indoors, 10 minutes. Outdoors, 10-30 minutes.Energy Expended by Child: Indoors, minimal. Outdoors, plenty. What You Need: A freezer or cold weatherA baking sheetBubbles; extra bubble solutionAn area largely shielded from wind How to Play: To freeze a bubble indoors, start by putting a metal baking sheet in the freezer for five to ten minutes. While you wait, ask your kids how they think bubbles work....
