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....

To compile the rankings, Nameberry looked at the number of page views each name received on its site. “We’re measuring which names attract the most interest from parents in real time versus how many babies actually receive these names,” Nameberry co-founder and CEO Pamela Redmond told HuffPost. “Given the 18-month time lag on name statistics from the Social Security Administration, this is the most accurate way for expectant parents to gauge which names are most likely to be popular in 2019....

I’ve spoken about this to many of my close female friends. Most are mothers. What surprised me was that their reactions were all quite similar. Shock, then sometimes tears, followed by admitting that there was once a painful distance from their own daughter. Apparently, this wasn’t that uncommon. Many said I should do whatever was possible to bring her back. I tried. I flew from Mexico to the States to see her but she would not see me face-to-face....

Josh is a food enthusiast. He was a finalist in MasterChef Junior and has been cooking since the age of 5. His passion for food has been evident for the longest time, but he’s built his culinary career while still making time for school. He has worked at Momofuku and Smorgasburg and has constant kitchen takeovers and cooking pop-ups. Josh hopes to work with more chefs around the world on different types of cuisine and aspires to own his own Michelin-starred restaurant one day....

Derek, who just welcomed his first kid with his wife, isn’t exactly sure. Derek’s wife is 33 and wants a big family, so if they’re going to do it, they better get a move on. But he’s always wanted a slightly smaller family. When they were dating, the conversations seemed solvable; the conflict, a little bit further off. But during marriage, it became real. Now, with a three-month-old, sleep training, and lots and lots of diapers, the conversation is on hold....

While the new animated series is based on the New York Times bestselling book franchise by Anna Dewdney, which has sold over 20 million copies, a lot of people know it from DJ J. Cruz’s radio show, where the biggest names in hip-hop perform their versions on air. Ludacris, in particular, reworks the sleepy story into an absolute banger. His absence in the trailer is unfortunate, although who knows, maybe they’ll get him to perform the official theme song....

Norwegian Handball Federation president Kare Geir Lio told the AFP that the Federation would pay any fine that the players faced, which reportedly could be up to 50 euros per player. “Of course we would pay any fine,” Lio said. “We are all in the same boat. “The most important thing is to have equipment that athletes are comfortable with.” sportscompetingwearing a catsuit during the tournament.up until 2012the uniform guidelineswore long-sleeved shirts and pants at the games in Rio

Sometimes friends reference my kid being transgender, and that’s fine. It’s the term du jour that probably makes the most sense in a binary world where we need to think of things as this or that. For now, the entire family is slightly more comfortable with the term “gender fluid”. Since she’s still only eight years old, it doesn’t exhibit confusion or self-loathing about her body or circumstances, and she is relatively comfortable stating, “I have a boy body and a girl brain....

Giraud comes by this parenting style honestly: As one of the best ski-BASE jumpers in the world, he puts his life at risk for his profession. But even when he’s skiing off a cliff in the Alps, floating to the ground with his parachute deployed as an avalanche crashes down off the slope behind him (that happened), Giraud takes issue with saying he throws caution to the wind. He argues that few people are more aware of the risks and rewards in life than he....

I don’t know if my parents ever considered staying together for my sake. It’s certainly unlikely they considered how their divorce would affect my life and my relationship with them — and how it continues to shape our relationship. That’s the tough thing about making the decision to divorce after you’ve had children: It requires much more thought and self-reflection than the decision to get married probably ever did. Unlike marriage, the repercussions aren’t immediately clear....

There are no easy answers. But scientists who study altruism have catalogued some of the advantages and disadvantages of kindness and, on the balance, it may be wise to raise children who are less “nice” than they are “prosocial”. Kindness, it turns out, is overrated. Getting along with others and contributing to a group is not. Evolutionary biologists have long been fascinated and befuddled by altruism. Natural selection is all about ensuring the evolutionary fitness of the individual so we should, by all means, have evolved to interrupt conversations as an assertion of dominance and hoard cookies to protect our food stores....

The sweetest dreams of exhausted parents tend to involve their kids doing these things for themselves. And although kids have a seemingly infinite list of needs, a part of them has a deep desire for independence, which they can use to meet those needs. That desire just needs to be fostered and directed. “We as human beings are constantly looking for ways to collaborate and socialize with other people, but we’re also striving toward self-actualization — figuring out what I can do for myself,” says Lauren Starnes, Ed....

After Nerf Herder broke up in 2004, Gripp began exploring the nascent world of internet music, recording bizarre pre-YouTube hits like “Baby Monkey (Going Backwards on a Pig),” before sidling headlong into kids’ songs and working on cartoons such as Ben 10, StoryBots, and The 7D (for which he won an Emmy). Gripp has a knack for nailing the mashup aspect of kid culture (of course Space Unicorn would shoot “marshmallow lasers”!...

The Perseid Meteor Shower is caused when the Earth’s atmosphere passes through the debris trail left by the Swift-Tuttle comet. How impressive the view is from earth depends mostly on the moon, which resulted in a disappointing experience in 2020 but it’s primed to be a hell of a view this year. A new moon arrived on Sunday, meaning that the sun and moon are close together (from our perspective here on earth) so neither will be that visible in the sky....

While this certainly isn’t a bad thing it does present a problem that can compound over time. Though dogs and cats, our beloved, furry companions, might be happy to see us at home, they also thrive on structure and routine. At some point, people will return to their offices and their more-normal lives, and pets who have become accustomed to us being home at all times might be scared, confused, or even suffer from separation anxiety....

Last week, Pfizer-BioNTech confirmed the company was close to approval for a vaccine for 5-11 year olds, suggesting emergency use authorization could come in October, though, and now we have a timeline for kids six months old and up. Here’s what you need to know. During a news conference, Pfizer’s Chief Financial Officer Frank D’Amelio spoke to attendees and gave an updated timeline for when Pfizer expects to apply for emergency use from the U....

“At that time, I was really into squirrels,” said Nishida. “so I wanted the character to have puffy cheeks. Squirrel tails are cute (so I wanted it to have a tail). However, I wanted the character to have a lightning element, so I made it shaped like lightning.” Nishida also explained that Pikachu actually stores electricity in its cheeks because, unlike a snake that simply gets fat with food, a squirrel hides food in its cheeks....

RELATED: Kids Tablets That Let Them Read, Write, And Create On Their Own But the days of spiderweb cracks are behind me, and not because my kids grew up. Rather, it’s because I stuck these grippy Pop Sockets onto the backs of their tablets. Pop Sockets are dead-simple little doodads. They’re inch-and-a-half wide plastic discs that extend from the back of your phone or tablet. Once attached, they provide little hands with an actual handle to grab onto and a convenient stand to help prop up the device....