Parents with babies can use the baby monitor functionality to listen to their kids, plus the white noise and night light to help infants fall asleep. With toddlers, parents can set up specific times (that the brand calls programs) that kids need to wake up, nap, and go to bed, to minimize any anxiety related to transitions. And they also learn when it’s OK to get out of bed, and when it’s time to hit the sack....

The streaming service has announced the new titles coming to its platform in April, and there’s a lot. We’re getting some fun TV shows to stream like Chopped: Complete Season 36 if food shows are your thing, Property Brothers: Complete Seasons 10 & 11 if you prefer home shows, and 60 Days In: Narcoland: Complete Season 1 if you like to see some reality drama. There are plenty of movies coming as well, some more basic than others, but a lot to choose from....

Why are children’s COVID-19 cases — and especially hospitalizations — so high? Is it a question of numbers being accurately counted, or something else? “It’s difficult to know for sure,” says Sonja Rasmussen, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Florida. “But I think as Florida is surging, we are going to see more cases in everybody.” Kids are less likely to get severely sick with the disease, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune....

Instacart wanted to find out which hot condiments were the favorites around the country since National Hot Sauce Day us around the corner. The company enlisted the help of The Harris Poll to collect the data using Instacart purchase and survey data to uncover America’s hot sauce preferences. An online survey was conducted in the US by The Harris Poll on behalf of Instacart from December 20-22, 2021. Over 2,000 people 18 and up participated, with 1,422 of those participants saying they eat hot sauce....

Hot Wheels id cars run for $7 and look nearly identical to the cars you had when you were a kid the same cars your own kid likes to send down into a maze of loops, steep curves, and crash-happy intersections. The only difference is that these new cars have an NFC (near-field communication) chip with a unique identifier on the bottom of each car that makes it trackable within the free Hot Wheels id app, available exclusively for iOS....

Unfortunately, no matter where you live and what type of braces you select, the procedure will run you at least $3,000. Beyond crossing state lines for orthodontics, there are several ways to mitigate the costs of keeping your kids’ teeth straight. Parents can opt out of more expensive types of braces (invisible aligners, ceramic braces, lingual braces) and instead ask for traditional metal braces. Metal braces may be the most visible (and most humiliating to wear in high school) but they’re less expensive and just as effective....

Everything changed for the better when we started using Slack at work. We’ve made countless custom integrations; doorbells, intercoms, travel cards, reddit, lunch menus, git hooks, server monitoring, you name it — we have it. My family has been using Google Calendar for a few years. My wife and I used to think that we we’re busy every night and that there was no room for improvisation. Google Calendar showed us that we had lots of free evenings and weekends, which has been great....

The problem wasn’t the weekday, home office looks. The problem was that things didn’t get much better on date-nights with my wife. She was lucky if my shirt had all its buttons. My wife stopped calling me cute. I needed help. That’s when I was introduced by my editor to Mike and Alex Faherty, the twin creators of Faherty, which manufactures comfortable clothes for adults of all sizes who still care what they look like....

Full disclosure: the time machine was a giant garment bag with a rusty zipper and peach-colored flowers on the front. Even fuller disclosure: the garment bag wasn’t a time machine. That didn’t stop me and my older cousins from convincing the younger ones that they could step out from between the zipper and instantly be walking among dinosaurs, fighting in the Civil War, or riding a hover board. The best part?...

Nonetheless, parents often insist on asking doctors whether their kids can miss a vaccine or two, essentially implying that some vaccine-preventable diseases aren’t all that bad. “They’re all dangerous and deadly,” Dr. David Hill, a pediatrician who oversees 20 clinics in North Carolina and teaches at the University of North Carolina’s Medical School, tells moms and dads who ask these sorts of questions.“Would you rather be paralyzed from polio or get lockjaw from tetanus?...

Know Your Own Emotional State Importantly, because depression is an internal state marked by feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, it’s unlikely that young children will have the emotional or developmental skills to communicate that they are depressed. So children themselves aren’t necessarily the best place to start when looking for information on their emotional state. In fact, parents are more likely to be successful in diagnosing depression — or any number of psychological conditions like anxiety or aggression — by looking to their own mental health first....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Parental and Paternity Leave Get the Conversation Started ASAP Typically, you wait until your wife is three months along before telling anyone. And right after you make phone calls to your college roommate and mother-in-law, you should tell your boss, says Friedman. “Once you’re public, why not get the process started?” he says. Approach the Situation Gingerly Yes, you’re having a child. And while this is an incredible, important, life-changing moment for you, it isn’t for your boss....

And since a bored baseball player is one who’s probably not going to want to come to practice, it’s important for Little League coaches to make the game as exciting as possible for kids and new players. To help do that, Fatherly called up Mike Randazzo, head coach of the Fairfield American Little League All-Star team from Fairfield, Connecticut ⏤ New England’s representative in last year’s Little League World Series ⏤ for some of his tips on keeping things light, pressure-free, and full of fun....

Prep Time: 1 Minute Entertainment Time: 10-15 minutesEnergy Expended by Child: Moderate What You Need: A kitchen chair.Up to four hats. Baseball, cowboy, winter, Easter ⏤ it doesn’t matter, just as long as it can lasso the leg of a chair.If you don’t have hats, don’t worry. You can turn it into a traditional ring toss with costume necklaces, pieces of rope tied/taped in a circle, or by cutting the center out of four thick paper plates....

RELATED: When To Start Sleep Training How to Put a Baby To Sleep Enforce an early bedtime every night. Babies who go to bed later take longer to fall asleep and wake more at night. The magic bedtime is almost always around 7 or 8 p.m.Cultivating a nursery that’s calm, quiet, cool, but not cold. Make it dark, but not too dark.Keep a consistent bedtime and a calming routine that includes a warm bath, a massage, and a lullaby to soothe your child to sleep....

April’s full moon gets the pink moon moniker because of the spring blossom of pink phlox flowers that accompany it in the United States. Alas, it won’t actually be pink, but there will still be plenty to see. That’s because the moon, at just 221,851 miles away, will be close enough to reveal many of the features on its surface. From the northern hemisphere, you’ll be able to see an 800 million-year-old, nearly 58-mile wide crater called Copernicus along with Aristarchus, a crater to its left, and Tycho, a massive impression near the bottom of the moon....

But you need to make plans to do it — which is easier in some work situations than others. To maintain your reputation as a team player and retain the management of your most favored projects, you want to let your boss know your needs well in advance. Even though you’re essentially “telling” your manager that you’ll be taking your rightful time off, it’s best to do so with tact and graciousness....

Of course, that doesn’t mean parents should take their hands off the steering wheel. They need to actively model and teach their kids about empathy and understanding others without raising a child who is so sensitive they are hurt by it. For that, we spoke to Ann Pleshette Murphy, a parenting therapist, author of The Secret of Play, and former editor-in-chief of Parents Magazine, about what parents do to raise empathetic kids....

Nope! Just like Netflix has a party feature, Disney+ just introduced GroupWatch. Here’s a step-by-step approach for getting GroupWatch to work on Disney+. Step 1: Select the show or movie you want to watch On the Disney+ homepage, you won’t see a “GroupWatch” feature. You’ll only get the GroupWatch feature if you click on a specific series or movie you want to watch. So, do that first. (In this example, we’ll be watching Tron, the greatest Jeff Bridges film of all time, if you don’t count Starman or The Big Lebowski....