Matt Shirley, who runs the Instagram account @matsurelee, asked people to weigh in and vote on which state their home state is their least favorite over a year ago — and in case you missed it, we have the map right here. On Reddit, Matt explained how he compiled the data. “Methodology: I asked my ~300k Instagram followers which state their home state dislikes the most using the ‘questions’ feature on my Instagram story,” he explained....

Whether you’re a Tom Brady fan or not, he had a moment after the big game that clinched him and his team a Super Bowl appearance that most parents can relate to, and that is the desire to share victories — large career ones such as qualifying for the Super Bowl again, and also smaller, everyday triumphs — with your kids. In a heartfelt moment captured by ESPN, Brady is shown leaving Lambeau Field and entering the stands, asking, “Can I say hi to my son?...

The gross mismanagement of these kids has led to crisis and to death. Some 22 migrants, children and adults, have died in U.S. custody since Trump assumed office. There were two deaths in December alone: On December 6th, a 7-year-old girl named Jakelin Caal Maquin died after crossing the border with her father, and on Christmas Day, Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy, also died in government custody. For context, there have been 188 deaths of migrants in U....

It may seem impossible to both financially support your kids and find time to spend with them. Now there’s data to back up that this worry isn’t all in your head — and it’s because the US government is failing you. That’s an issue not just for the obvious reasons, but because benefits for parents at work are directly linked to child wellbeing, according to a new study in the journal Social Forces....

That’s the good news. The bad news is that inflation is preventing workers from enjoying the spoils of their hard-won raises. Here’s what you need to know about the current situation—and what the future likely holds. Wages Are Up Wages are up for a host of different reasons. Increased government benefits during the pandemic, particularly unemployment insurance, along with the health risk of in-person employment for workers and their families made people much more comfortable being unemployed....

Nate and Kaley Klemp know something about this. As the busy parents of one who had carved out their own identities before tying the knot, they gravitated toward the even-steven model of marriage familiar to many modern couples: They believed each partner should contribute equally. But they soon found this approach was flawed — and it only led to fights and resentment, especially after they became parents. “The more we realized that looking towards fairness and keeping this kind of mental tally of who does what, we ended up being in far more conflict,” Nate tells Fatherly....

There are actually a few. One, presumably, is that people from all kinds of backgrounds love Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and strongly identify with its creator. This makes sense. He’s one of only a few standing models of goodness. Another is that the way the man spoke — and the quote does sound right — was powerful. He did not triangulate or engage in rhetorical games. He was purposefully guileless. In our current media environment, he’s hard to understand precisely because of his lack of agenda....

“Ever since Amelia was born, Daddy always had a beard,” wife Sofia explained of Batiz, who is a contracting officer in Tucson, Ariz. “So when it was gone she had absolutely no idea who he was … The expression she made was priceless; it was a disgusted face, like, ‘Eeew get away from me.’” Sofia admitted that she didn’t know her husband was planning to shave off the beard either, so both mom and daughter were shocked....

The video comes courtesy of the Youtube channel AvE, where Canadian father Piet Hein posts videos about everything from engineering to his opinions on the viability of Bitcoin. About halfway through his take on trochoid pumps, however, Hein’s daughter walks in going “I got an ouch ouch.” That’s when it gets good. Off-camera, a concerned Hein can be heard kissing his daughters injury, before she asks him about the pump on the table....

The videos show the 46-year-old striking out a couple of batters with his trademark heater. You might assume that Colon wouldn’t go too hard against kids but based on the videos, he’s not pulling any punches and neither of the batters manage to make contact with a single pitch. In fact, one of the kids doesn’t even swing, probably because he’s intimidated by the fact that he’s expected to hit off a four-time All Star....

If we were to choose a song that defines our generation’s parenting, it would, unfortunately, have to be Pinkfong’s ‘Baby Shark’. Our kids, for better or for worse, quickly became obsessed with the song, and even Cardi B weighed in on the viral popularity of the kid’s song hit by modeling to it in a catwalk Instagram video, cementing the song in our brains and minds forever if it weren’t already rubber-stamped there....

Now 58, and a father of five, Snipes co-stars in Coming 2 America as General Izzi, leader of Nextdoria, the African country right next door to Zamunda. Izzi is fearsome, funny, full of surprise dance moves, and ready to make a power play to bolster his family’s influence and exact some revenge against Prince Akeem (Murphy) over events from the first movie. Fatherly recently spoke with the energetic Snipes, who discussed working on Coming 2 America, addressed life’s ups and downs, and revealed that all of his kids appear in the sequel....

Strikingly, the Sonic Frisbee is no longer round. It is, in fact, square-ish. The strange shape is built to accommodate the wavy top geometry of the disc. Three distinct mounded waves disturb what has traditionally been the frisbee’s sleek flat profile. When the platter is tossed, these waves appear to undulate almost like the wings of a bird, which is apparently the point. But do they improve performance? I took the new frisbee out with my 7-year-old to find out....

“The head is often misshapen from the pressures of being born, so babies come out cone-headed and looking like little baby aliens,” Kathleen Rowland, a physician and professor at Rush Medical College, tells Fatherly. For these tiny coneheads, their skulls typically adjust on their own within 24 to 72 hours. From there, an infant’s head shape starts providing clues if they have an underlying congenital issue or if they’re getting enough tummy time....

My wife’s brother is coming to our place for Thanksgiving. To put it mildly, he likes to drink and has pretty extreme views on race. It never fails that he says something offensive. I have three kids who are now old enough to know what he’s talking about, so how do I deal with him on Thanksgiving? Paul, Albuquerque, New Mexico * You say your brother-in-law likes to drink and has “extreme views on race....

It doesn’t help that ED can manifest in so many different ways. “Erectile dysfunction is just defined as an inability to obtain or maintain an erection satisfactory for intercourse,” says urologist James Rosoff, M.D.. “It could even be drinking a lot of alcohol or being nervous about their first time with a new partner.” Simply put, a young guy who cannot get it up with his new girlfriend because he drank too much and an older man who cannot get an erection without penile implant both technically have erectile dysfunction, but there’s a vast difference between the types....

On a Friday night sometime last year, I got a worried phone call from the mother of one of my son’s classmates. My husband and I had just settled in front of the TV, ready to tackle another season of Silicon Valley when my mortified facial expression put an end to what had been a perfectly pleasant day. My 12-year-old son, as it turned out, had been “picking on” her son....

We asked 11 husbands about what they wish their wives knew. Some spoke about not wanting to be pigeonholed by standard assumptions of “masculine behavior,” while others wished they’d be included more in household dialogues; still others explained that they wished their wives would give themselves a break. All answers offered a glimpse into what issues linger — and what conversations we should all have with our partners more often....

“If you can’t control yourself, you’re in jeopardy in being too angry or too verbal,” warns Dr. Michele Borba, author of No More Misbehavin’: 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them. She notes that a simple warning sign that a parent might be straying into is abuse can be found simply in the way they enter into a disciplinary moment. “Discipline is It’s teachable, it’s calm, it’s dignified. Abuse is the opposite of those three....

My family and I lived off-grid for years, drawing water from a mountain spring, power from the sun, and wood from the forest for heat. Today, our daughter is eight, and we live a little closer to town. We still take in plenty of the raw beauty of the mountain, but we’ve found living off the grid to be a different kind of social distancing. As our daughter aged, we wanted her to have rich friendships, and the long drives became taxing....