Well, if they do, they don’t live in my house. My 2-year-old daughter is still learning to like brushing, and it’s taken a while to get to that point. Brushies, those clever finger puppet toothbrush characters with their own storybook, helped. At 18 months, she loved them. Actually, she still loves playing with them, she just doesn’t love using them for their intended purpose. Distracting her with books, turning brushing into a battle against “germ bugs,” and introducing toothpaste have all made her more amenable to flashing us those pearly white chompers....

A Tale of Two Kids and Two Parenting Styles In her 2003 book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau mines the parental dichotomy via the story of two Black boys: one from an upper middle class family, and another whose family was on public assistance. One boy, Alexander Williams, lived in a six bedroom house in a middle class neighborhood with his father, a lawyer, and his mother, a high level manager at a major corporation....

The collection includes desk drawers designed to look like 2×2 or 2×4 bricks along with rectangular picture frames, a three-pack of round, wall-mounted studs that act as coat racks, and linear floating shelves. When the collection is back in stock on Lego’s website it will range from $89 to $220, in both a light and darker stained option. Want it sooner? You can pick them up at Nordic Nest, but you’ll want to do it now if you see this as a holiday gift because it can take up to 3 weeks to reach the US....

While there are large variations across state lines, on the whole, Americans are spending a huge portion of their income on child care. Business Broker Network put the data together from a national survey of child-care providers, and the results are staggering. The highest cost, by far, is in Washington, D.C., where parents are spending an average of $35,782 per year, or $2,982 per month. Massachusetts is the next most expensive state for child care, where it costs an average of $29,426 annually, or $2,452 monthly....

The RHA Wireless Flight Adapter allows you to pair wireless headphones with the in-flight system via a simple, Bluetooth 5 pairing process. The casing is about the size of a tea bag, and features two hinged, 3.5mm jacks that allow you to optimize a standard plug connection without too much intrusion onto your lap space. (Most airline headphone ports are integrated into the arm rests.) The battery life is a very respectable 16+ hours on a full charge (via the side-mounted USB-C input), which means, conceivably, you could crank the volume and ignore 192 five-minute airline safety demonstrations in a row....

A mom who goes by Emdash80 on TikTok shared her parenting hack that encourages her to get her workout in, keeps her motivated, and keeps the kids happy and engaged enough to let her finish her full training. It sounds too good to be true and like there would be some kind of catch. But it’s simple and really, really smart. “Hey, pro-tip to all those parents who work out at home,” she begins her video....

Actually, the 2-in-1 Battle Monster is more than just a mobile water cannon with constant blasting. It’s first and foremost, a standalone pistol-gripped, pump-action blaster with a 1300mL storage reservoir that goes anywhere. Simply load at the top, pump repeatedly to build pressure, and fire away using the top trigger. It shoots a continuous stream with one pull and has a range of 38 feet. Feel free to run about the yard....

Using real toys, people and sets, and their iPhones and stop-motion animation, the pair began this big task in 2010 and finished it just a few weeks ago. “As soon as we saw Toy Story 3, it became our favorite film, and will forever be,” Mason McGrew said to BuzzFeed. “We’d always been [such] huge fans of Pixar and the Toy Story franchise that we eventually decided we wanted to pay tribute to the studio and film that we love so much....

Yesterday, the news got even worse. The British division of the company, which opened in 1985, announced it had collapsed into “administration” ⏤ meaning it’s about to become insolvent ⏤ and would start “an orderly wind-down” of its business, essentially liquidating the country’s 105 stores and laying off 3,200 staff. While some stores are expected to close within the week, most will stay open indefinitely and going-out-of-business sales are slashing 25 percent off everything....

In seven states and D.C., per the Washington Post, road deaths are up by 50%. In 2021, deaths soared to a 16-year high. Now, in 2022, we’ve hit a 20-year-high; the NHTSA report indicates that we’ve reached the highest number of first-quarter fatalities since 2002. And these jumps in traffic deaths continue to climb despite fewer vehicles on the road. The numbers follow a pandemic trend of increasing traffic deaths....

So when a Twitter user asked who gives the better speeches, Captain America or Optimus Prime, we didn’t expect anything approaching a consensus to emerge. And yet, one did. It’s Optimus Prime, by a mile. And honestly, after we rewatched the speeches people posted in the replies, it’s hard not to agree. It might not be fair—he’s a massive robot after all—but he has more gravitas than Cap. There’s also the fact that the Transformers stories present plenty of opportunities to talk about the future of the human race and that, in the Avengers films at least, Cap is one of dozens of characters competing for screen time....

During an episode that aired nearly six years ago in 2015 as a part of Veterans Week, three contestants are facing off in the final spin with the category “What are you doing?” And for Nura Fountaneaux, the answer to that question was making the most ridiculous guesses possible. During her turns, she guessed the letters Z, Q, X, and two times not even guessing a letter in time. Anyone familiar with Wheel of Fortune (or the English language in general) would know that these are the worst letters you can guess....

But although things are trending in the right direction regarding cost, not all states are seeing the same price drops. In some states, purchasing a used car is pricier than in others. Here’s what you need to know. According to Money.com, the price of a used car is finally dropping, “but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a great time to buy.” Citing data from the research firm Edmunds, the publication says the average price of a used car has dipped below $29,300 after a few months of dropping prices....

“In a surprising quirk of geology, Monday’s magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Mexico triggered four-foot-tall waves in Devils Hole, located in Death Valley National Park,” a notice from the National Park Service read. The earthquake hit Colima and Michoacán in Mexico around 2 p.m. EDT, and in a short period of time, the impact was seen at Death Valley National Park. “Twenty-two minutes later, water started sloshing 1,500 miles away in Devils Hole,” park rangers said in a Sept....

Ahead of the release of F9: The Fast Saga (Director’s Cut) on digital September 9, and on 4k/Blu-ray/DVD on September 21, Fatherly is thrilled to present this preview from some of the film’s special features. In the clip above, Vin Diesel briefly talks about how the themes of Dom and his son Brian, touch on his own experiences. “When I watch the movie, I melt when I see Baby Brian and Dom,” Diesel says....

But, according to the mom, Krysta Meyer, the video was of her baby attending Little Fins Swim School — and it’s not a swimming class, but an “infant survival class.” The co-owner of the school said that the whole idea of the class is to teach kids as young as 6-months old “to assess their situation and find an exit strategy” when they’re unexpectedly dropped or fall into a pool....

When Sunday rolls around, wait for your wife to discuss what’s happening in the week ahead. Look attentive but zone out. Wait until she finishes talking about what everybody has to do and where everybody has to be and when, then say things like “okay” or “sounds good.” Maybe throw in a “you got it” for good measure. Later, frantically call your wife when you realize you pledged to leave work early to pick up the kids on a day you’re facing a huge deadline and beg her to do it instead....

Anyway. Outside of Taylor Swift’s whole deal, Jonathan Majors nailed it hosting SNL, and the sketches were pretty freaking hilarious this time around. Here are the best ones. Ted Cruz’s Sesame Street Dunking on people who tried to dunk on Big Bird never gets old. This sketch reminds us why we’re lucky to have the real Sesame Street. Strange Kid Tales Kenan Thompson and Jonathan Majors played hosts of a faux-talk show in which actual kids tell them ghost stories....

And then, suddenly, in 1996, Murphy decided to focus on family films. It probably had something to do with the fact that by then five of his 10 children were born. He likely wanted to make films they could see their dad in. First up was The Nutty Professor, a comedy remake in which he played more than a half dozen roles, with his appearance altered by state-of-the-art visual effects and Oscar-winning makeup and prosthetics....

The play-in tournament, should there be a team within four games of the postseason, will happen on August 16 and 17. The first round of the playoffs starts on August 18, the second on September 1, and the conference finals on September 15. The NBA Finals will begin on the last day of September, and if they go a full seven games the last will be played on October 12, about four months after they were originally scheduled to end....