“Guys I am gonna be perfectly honest. Instagram never liked my Munchkin and it killed me inside. His photos never got as many likes. Never got comments,” she wrote, going on to say, “From a statistical point of view, he wasn’t as popular with everyone out there.” Parents everywhere, including the 52,000 followers of Bower’s blog Bower Power, quickly reacted on social media, criticizing the Atlanta mom for exploiting her child and for caring so much about his online popularity....

“I would wake up after a couple of glasses of wine feeling like absolute shit,” remembers the Seattle-based creative director. “If I went out, on a Friday night, I’d be hungover most of the next day. That was the time I had to spend with my girls. I was just tired. It impacted my parenting. I don’t think there was one moment where I woke up in the gutter, but there were layers of stuff....

RELATED: The Dangerous Toy and Baby Product Recalls That Happened in August Fortunately, there are multiple government agencies ⏤ most importantly the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which has jurisdiction over more than 15,000 kinds of consumer products ⏤ and watchdog groups like KidsinDanger.org and Safe Kids Worldwide who keep tabs on it all. In fact, six federal agencies have joined together to create Recalls.gov, an online hub where they “alert the American people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products....

A gaming system? An entertainment center? A path to interactive play? No doubt. But a toy, like a basketball, or a rocking horse, or a remote-control car? Consider us unconvinced. Still, TheToyZone sought to answer this important question for parents. Using a list of popular toys outlined by Wikipedia and the Toy Association, TheToyZone “cross-referenced them with popular toy round-ups” from several sources. And it’s clear that gaming systems are seriously on top globally, with a little competition from Barbie and Lego....

“It’s all about showing a kid what the next step they’re working on looks like,” says Dr. Andy Bernstein, a pediatrician based in Evanston, Illinois. He notes that gross motor skills come first, congruently with the start of regular tummy time. An engaged parent can use this time to help the child move toward movement milestones while making it look like play. “If they’re working on tummy time, give them lots of tummy time, then gently while you’re singing songs show them how to roll....

According to IndieWire, several Warner Bros. movies, including some in the DC Universe, are having the release dates pushed back. Back in March 2021, the company announced its 2022 release date calendar would return to theatrical release models. However, several are being pushed back by a few months, without a reason given. Here’s what you need to know about the 5 movies whose dates are being pushed back. Black Adam Originally set to premier on July 29, 2022, will now be delayed until October 21, 2022....

I can’t remember where or when I got it. I’ve owned it for years. It provides easy access to my life savings and contains enough documentation and artifacts to reconstruct my person. Friends have noted that someone could steal my identity by stealing my wallet, and I’ve said they’re welcome to it—my identity, that is. The thought of someone assuming the me that is me amuses, well, me. However, I do believe falling prey to identity theft would suck....

“Penis!” I yell because dammit, this is the Year of the Penis. “Penis! Penis! Penis!” he says because that is our song; our mantra during potty training. It is not “junk,” or “dick,” or “pecker.” That’s not what we have taught my newly potty-trained boy. He came up with the song all on his own, and he sings it every time he goes to the bathroom. That phrase was our abracadabra....

Years ago, when her kids were bickering preschoolers fighting over toys, she suggested placing the playthings in what she called toy jail: Out of reach, but clearly visible, with a countdown on when they would be released again. It worked. So well, that it remains in use with parents of younger kids throughout the 11215 zip code, long after her sons Kai, 12, and Sasha Schreiber, 13 (with former partner Liev Schreiber) have outgrown the gambit....

We get a bit more plot than before, as it turns out a middle schooler name Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) convinces her uncle Casey (Jack Whitehall) to let Clifford stay with them for one night. But the twist is that Clifford is the little red dog at this point, until he grows into the behemoth we all know and love seemingly overnight. And while Casey tries to adjust to this new reality of owning a dog the size of a wooly mammoth, a group of scientists and/or businessmen plot to kidnap Clifford, for reasons that are not clear....

Norton Juster, the author of The Phantom Tollbooth has died at the age of 91 years old. This is probably not a tragedy. Juster lived a full and amazing life, and his legacy, via Tollbooth is all about tolerance and whimsy. He wrote countless children’s books — both of the chapter book variety and several picture books, too — but he’ll forever be associated with Tollbooth, and for good reason....

“He showed me, and I genuinely did not know how to play this riff, ‘Back In Black’, which is a famous riff,” Gallagher revealed. He also explained that his son claimed a kid in school could play “Thunderstruck,” and when asked if his dad could too, Gallagher said, “I sheepishly went, ‘No’.” The other sweet part of this story is that as a father, Noel Gallagher said he hasn’t pushed music on any of his kids....

When Juan and Caitlyn Hatt met, they already had two kids from previous marriages. But two years into dating, Caitlyn became pregnant and then, 14 months later, gave birth to another baby. Now, with a very full household and schedule, Juan and Caitlyn have to work overtime to make time for one another. Their goal? To prolong the honeymoon phase for as long as possible. Here’s how they’re making it work....

Although the U.S. doesn’t mandate paid parental leave, 11 states and the District of Columbia do. California became the first state to do so when it’s paid parental leave policy was enacted in 2004. By analyzing the before-and-after in California and comparing it to the rest of the country, the study researchers determined that California’s 6-week paid parental leave avoided 339 infant deaths in just the four years after implementation....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Sleep The Arguments for Co-Sleeping It’s the most natural thing in the world to sleep with your baby, even a “biological imperative,” according to co-sleeping’s major proponent, University of Notre Dame anthropologist James McKenna, Ph.D., author of Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parents Guide To Co-Sleeping. It’s commonplace in Asian and Scandinavian countries, which have lower rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) than we do in the U....

Researchers from UCLouvain in Belgium surveyed 17,409 parents who have at least one child living at home in a new study. The researchers aimed to examine the state of parental satisfaction and exhaustion by surveying parents from 42 countries. The data was collected between January 2018 and March 2020, before COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions were in place. With the results based on pre-pandemic levels of burnout, burnout rates have likely increased significantly since....

“Parents should try really hard not to transpose their own fears and feelings onto their children,” says Sarah Ockwell-Smith, author of the book Gentle Discipline. “I tend to find those who struggle the most are parents who are naturally very extroverted, the life and soul of the party with a wide circle of friends, who are raising naturally introverted children who prefer to play alone, or with just one close friend....

A new LendingClub report shows that even though wage growth is higher than it’s been, the increase in the cost of living and the rapid jump in inflation (it has shot up so fast, it’s growing at the fastest pace in over 40 years) has made wage gains, well, not wage gains at all. While Americans are making more in wages than they were a few years ago, the cost of living has outdone any benefits of wage gains....

What Pork Needs to Be Thrown Out? The pork involved in the recall was distributed and subsequently recalled by Alexander & Hornung, a unit of Perdue Premium Meat Company based in Michigan. The products have been placed on the shelves of grocery stores nationwide including Whole Foods and Big Y, the recall announcement reads. Possible exposure to Listeria monocytogenes is what prompted the expanded recall from 234,391 pounds to 2.32 million pounds of meat, including fully cooked ham and pepperoni products....

“As parents are engaging with the child, they can change their tone of voice based on the social environment and talk about where they are as they enter different social settings,” explains Ana Alvarez, MSW, a family engagement specialist at the Los Angeles-based education advocacy nonprofit Child360. “The learning can begin even with newborns.” She adds that newborns are very keyed into parents tone and facial expression, which means that teaching context is sort of inevitable anyway....