Still, sometimes parents will have a hunch. So if your son insists on wearing dresses or your daughter desperately wants her hair cut short, and you have a sense that it’s a sign of something more, what should you do? Don’t Ask Your Kid If They’re Gay You might be tempted to straight up ask your kid, says Kristin Russo, an LGBTQ advocate and co-founder of the organizations Everyone Is Gay & My Kid Is Gay....
“First, it sends the message that the child is incapable of quieting down on their own and requires adult intervention,” says Dr. Wendela Whitcomb Marsh, a board-certified behavior analyst. “Second, it sends a message that it is okay for bigger, stronger people to physically enforce their will on younger, smaller people. Third, children imitate and learn from observing their parents’ behavior.” This last point is particularly chilling. March encourages parents to consider the consequences of a child mimicking clasping a hand over another child’s mouth....
A lot has changed in the past quarter-century, which compelled Dr. Pipher and her daughter, Sara Gilliam, to write a new edition of the book, which they updated to include more information about anxiety and about technology — particularly social media and smartphones — and how it shapes teenage girlhood. Fatherly spoke to Pipher and Gilliam about the state of teenage girls in America and how parents can help them be their best selves....
Just as everyone agrees Bubble Guppies makes no sense (Are they floating? Walking? Swimming? What’s going on?), physicians are pretty much in lockstep on keeping kids agua-free until at least 6 months. First, because breast milk or formula has everything tiny bodies need, including water. So even when it’s so damn hot, milk is a good choice. More importantly, feeding a baby younger than 6 months water can actually cause “water intoxication,” which sounds like an amazing new way to save money at happy hour but is actually a possibly lethal condition....
My son is pretty good at sports. He used to play basketball with a group of boys in first and second grade. At some point, a couple of the boys he played with decided that no girls should be allowed to play, and only the “best players” could play. My son was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the four best players, but the whole thing bothered him to the point where he stopped playing....
There are no hard and fast rules as to when children must learn specialized life skills, such as how to read or ride a bike. But one thing we miss about milestones is that we used to know when to worry. Walking by one. Talking by two. Tying shoes by…college? The trick, experts say, is to start by figuring out whether your kid even wants to hit the next “milestone”....
What Is The Male G-Spot? The male G-spot is a nickname for the prostate, that muscular, walnut-sized gland that produces seminal fluid to protect your sperm and generally supports ejaculation. According to Lori Lawrenz, Psy.D., a sex therapist with the Hawaii Center for Sexual and Relationship Health, the prostate — also sometimes called the “P-spot” — is actually a highly sensitive area for people with penises. “The prostate is a gland with many nerve endings that, when stimulated, can release intense pleasure,” she says....
That’s because his relatively brief career was chock full of great performances in everything from period dramas to biopics to, of course, superhero movies. Here are some of our favorites along with information on how you can stream them. 42 (2013) Taking on the role of Jackie Robinson in one of your first film roles would be like pitching to Jackie Robinson in one of your first major league games: a huge challenge....
RELATED: Why ‘Star Wars’ Endures From Generation to Generation But buying toys ain’t what it used to be. It’s not as simple as just get a Porg. Now, you have to choose which of the stuffed, squawking Porgs is right for your kid. Fortunately, there’s simple criterion that makes searching for the perfect stuffed Porg as easy as bullseye-ing womp rats in your T-16: Price, Accuracy, Adorability, Huggability, and the X-Factor....
I should say at the outset that I’m pretty sure the people who created this book didn’t intend for it to read like your boss’s LinkedIn updates. Author Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld seem like nice people. And the illustration of the sleeping crane truck holding his little teddy bear is very cute. But, the cuteness of this book is what makes it so insidious. Let me explain....
According to Vanity Fair, Hemsworth learned a lot about himself while working on National Geographic’s Limitless, a docuseries that investigates the natural decline that comes with getting older and how to push back on the impact of aging. As part of his investigations for the series, Hemsworth underwent an extensive genetic test, a tool that provides a glimpse into potential health issues down the road. Not expecting anything to come out from the battery of genetic tests, the plan was for Hemsworth to meet with a doctor to go over the results....
Fred Rogers understood this and it’s why he made a simple, hokey, and at times boring children’s show. Make no mistake, there was nothing unintentional about Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. The joke was not on Fred Rogers. The joke was on us. And it wasn’t ultimately a joke. It was a kindness. Mister Rogers, our pal with the crooked front tooth and the sloping shoulders, worked hard to be compelling enough that we would listen, but not so compelling we wouldn’t be able to hear ourselves....
Like many parents-to-be, my wife and I had made plans to protect our daughter from the cultural currents that teach girls to be pretty, docile, and demure. And, like many plans created by parents-to-be, ours has not been as easy as we thought. When my now 5-year-old daughter said that she wanted to dress up as Elsa, I took it as yet another sign that the cultural currents were winning....
Some Very Good Reasons for Freezing Sperm When a sperm and egg get together to form an embryo, the process is a 50/50 crapshoot. Yet in many ways, society doesn’t take into account the health of half of that embryo. Research has found that a man’s healthiest sperm comes before age 30, yet men are having kids later than ever: A 2017 study found that men over 40 fathered 9% of babies born in the U....
Life with 3 kids and a new business can be pretty busy. So, you can imagine my excitement when I found yesterday there was nothing on the family calendar and I was going to be able to leave work in time to make it out to my favorite dove hunting spot. Time to take advantage of one of the best parts of living in a place like Lincoln, NE; you’re never more than 15 minutes from a dirt road!...
After 13 years with the Bears and Panthers, Greg Olsen signed with the Seahawks in February. But it wasn’t Olsen who popped up on the first team-wide Zoom call as “Greg Olsen” to break the ice. After an introduction (of “Olsen”) from head coach Pete Carroll, a Seahawks jersey-clad Ferrell popped up on the screen to a chorus of laughs from the rest of the team. Any awkwardness that might’ve been there was quickly discarded....
Recently, there have been murmurs that the lame-duck Congress — what Congress is referred to in that period between midterms or an election and the inauguration of the new representatives — could enact, once again, new expansions to the program before the new Congress is inaugurated in January. This would matter a great deal because that tax credit, practically as soon as it expired, left as many as 3.7 million kids to fall right back into poverty....
Shatner didn’t say this unprompted. Because he’s a father and a grandfather — he has adult three daughters — I wanted to know if Captain Kirk himself, now the oldest person who has ever flown in space, has any meaningful advice to families about the future of our planet. Upon returning to Earth following his 11-minutes aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard-18, Shatner said “Everybody in the world needs to do this....
“No kidding,” you say.“No, you don’t understand,” I say.It is difficult to grasp what an average Minnesota winter actually feels like until you experience the totality of a full season. In the northern hemisphere, winter officially lasts three months, from December 21 until March 20. Easily survivable. But in Minnesota, we had eight inches of snow on October 20 this year. I scrambled the night before to make sure our snowblower (you gotta have a snowblower) was still in working order....
Make a Nightly Battle Plan The last thing you want to be doing is starting work without a plan of attack. Go through your schedule the night before and make a proper to-do list for the day. Make it as specific as possible: plot out what emails you need to respond to, what meetings you have and when, what assignments need to get done, what calls need to be made....
