So, I get morning wood. Who doesn’t? Not to brag, but mine is long and strong — as in, it takes a good 20 minutes to go down in the morning. This was never a problem (opposite!) before we had a baby. Now that we have a toddler, it is definitely freaking weird. The baby slept in our bed from the get-go and, while the wood issue was uncomfortable, I could easily turn to my side and wait it out....
It used to take a series of lengthy assessments to test for each aspect of the dark triad individually, but many experts now rely on the short version, developed by Delroy Paulhus and colleagues in 2011, which can identify the dark triad with a brief 27-question test. Here’s how to do it at home. How to Take the Dark Triad Test Ask your child to answer the following questions with: strongly disagree (1), disagree (2), neither agree nor disagree (3), agree (4), or strongly agree (5)....
Yet, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly issued warnings about the dangers of consuming raw dough. Specific statements have included: “The bottom line for you and your kids is don’t eat raw dough,” “Don’t give your kids raw dough or baking mixes that contain flour to play with” and “Don’t make homemade cookie dough ice cream.” In fact, the commissioner of the FDA tweeted a rhyme on the topic on Dec....
“For most people, jealousy is fear of their partner leaving or being taken away,” says Aricia Shaffer, MSE, coach, counselor and author of The Timeshare. “This is misplaced, however, because your partner has free will. They can come and go as they please. And if they know they have that choice, they’re actually more likely to stay.” However, jealousy doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. When focused the right way, it can actually produce positive results....
“So, in Korean traditionally the two syllables they each mean something different and Ji means, like, smart or wise. And Young means, like, brave or courageous and strong,” Ji-Young explained in an interview, according to the Associated Press. “But we were looking it up and guess what? Ji also means sesame.” Ji-Young is a 7-year-old Korean American who loves skateboarding and her electric guitar. She made her debut on Thanksgiving Day on HBO Max and Sesame Street social media platforms....
According to NASA, the JWST returned images from a never-before-seen star spotted in the “stellar nursery called 30 Doradus.” This area — which is 161,000 light years away — has been nicknamed Tarantula Nebula because of the “dusty filaments” first seen in previous images taken by the telescope. But the new images from the telescope show the fabulous nebula in extraordinary detail. “The region takes on a different appearance when viewed in the longer infrared wavelengths detected by Webb’s Mid-infrared Instrument (MIRI),” NASA explains....
According to the BBC, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi noted that in cases where parents don’t want their children to receive the vaccination, the kids may still be able to get the shot if they choose to. As it turns out, there is legal precedent for such a thing, and the BBC referred to information from the National Health Service on the country’s laws regarding children’s consent to medical treatment. In the UK, anyone aged 16 and older has authority over their own medical decisions....
“When they look at a situation from someone else’s perspective, it could help them to see that problem in different ways and, in turn, that could help them find better solutions,” study coauthor Rachel White of the University of Pennsylvania told Fatherly. With the exception of studies conducted in the 1970s, research on how children develop perseverance is sparse. Most notably during this time, the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment linked children’s ability to delay gratification (in this case, eating a marshmallow) with future successes....
“All! Night! All! Night!” they chanted, oblivious to or simply uninterested in the expressions of concern at the far side of the table. READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Sleep When I’d floated the idea for the bedtime experiment earlier in the day, my wife made it abundantly clear that she believed the result would be an unmitigated disaster. She stressed there would be sleepless nights, exhausted children, an increase in meltdowns, and general chaos....
Bankrate hoped to help potential retirees by compiling a ranking of the best and worst states to retire. The ranking of all 5o of the United States was created based on five factors: affordability (40 percent), wellness (20 percent), culture (15 percent), weather (15 percent), and crime (10 percent). That Florida is one of the best places to retire should come as a surprise to no one, as geriatric Americans have been heading to the sunshine state to enjoy their final chapter in life for what feels like time immemorial....
For parents who wonder how their states stack up compared to others, WalletHub determined the best states for early childhood education programs and what states are the worst. First things first: According to WalletHub, preschool enrollment dropped by nearly 300,000 students during the 2020-21 school year, “which experts say erased a decade of progress and increased educational inequality.” Research shows that 3 and 4-year-olds belong in preschool. Kids who go to preschool or enroll in early childhood education programs are more likely to finish high school, go to college, and outperform their peers on tests in the short term....
As fun as the video is – and Hamill knocks both voices out of the park – all resulting proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen. WCK is working across America to safely distribute individually packaged, fresh meals in communities that need support – for children and families to pick up and take home, as well as delivery to seniors who cannot venture outside.May the Force be with them! Oh, and mask up, please!...
The mom to 3-year-old Katherine and 1-year-old Spencer has kept her private life very much to herself. She’s posted a few pictures of her kids on social media, but their faces are never shown. The identity of the father of the children, or fathers, has also remained private. And all of that, besides being her right to share what she wants when with others, is also a very intentional decision on her part — with good reason....
Thanks to YouTuber KayLow, we now have definitive proof that the ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ theme works as a perfect beat for pretty much every rap song that has ever existed. In the three-minute video, KayLow overlays verses from Drake, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Biggie and almost all the other top names in hip hop over theme. In nearly every case, the verses flow as though they were originally placed over the track....
“It’s blue from all the antibodies my body is producing as it thinks she’s sick with what she was vaccinated against!” Fisher wrote on May 2, noting that the blue milk was produced two days after her daughter, Nancy, received her one-year injections. Describing how her daughter’s saliva, which had a weakened version of viruses from the vaccinations, signaled her own body to create milk with antibodies to fight those specific illnesses, Fisher said, “This is one of the reasons I’m still breastfeeding 13 months on…....
The CDC doesn’t mention borrowing your kid’s Buzz Lightyear mask to wear on a trip to the grocery store, but that’s exactly what one matriarch of a Toy Story-loving family from North Carolina just did. Kelly Hogan Painter was on a mission. She wasn’t going to infinity and beyond, but she did need to make a quick trip to the grocery store to get some chicken nuggets. “We have a two-year-old son that has autism and very bad sensory issues with food,” Painter told HuffPost....
“Please watch and be careful when using aerosolized sunscreen!” the mom wrote on Facebook, sharing a series of graphic photos showing the burns on her daughter Kyla’s face. “I have done a lot of research. Since coming home and have found a disturbing amount of cases like ours. I don’t know why it’s not removed from the shelves!!” The spray that she used was Banana Boat SPF 50 broad spectrum kids sunscreen....
It all started with a post on April 25 when user u/zxkool asked, “Moms of Reddit: What do you actually want for Mother’s Day?” The responses range from the practical to the hilariously relatable. The most popular answer seemed to be just a few hours of much-needed sleep or quiet time. “One night in a hotel to sleep….and to come home to a clean house that wasn’t cleaned by me,” wrote one woman, while another explained, “I really miss having uninterrupted me time without having to worry about getting texts asking me where something is or if we have milk or whatever or watching the clock wondering how much time I have left....
House Bill 112, otherwise known as the “Save Women’s Sports Act” was quietly signed by Montana Governor Greg Gianforte without comment, per The Advocate; the latest effort in a series of dozens of proposed laws that explicitly target the rights, and liberty, of LGBTQ+ youth. Montana’s Anti-Trans Bills, Explained Montana’s anti-trans sports bill was signed into law The first bill, the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” bars transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams that correspond to their gender identity....
In honor of Norman’s passing, and in celebration of this utterly world-changing piece of movie music, here are five things you probably don’t know about the theme music for James Bond. Pay attention 007! 5. “The James Bond Theme” Doubled as the Title Song for Dr. No Although all subsequent James Bond films sport a particular title song, sung by a guest musician (I.E. Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die,” or Billie Eilish’s “No Time To Die) the very first Sean Connery James Bond movie, Dr....
