When Elizabeth Eden’s doctor informed her after delivering her first baby that she had tested positive for drugs, she immediately informed him that she’d eaten a poppy seed bagel, a food well-documented for causing failed drug tests. It didn’t matter. The hospital had already reported her to the state and her baby was taken away, forced to stay in the maternity ward for an extra five days. Despite the fact that the “traumatizing experience” was ultimately resolved, Eden was still assigned a caseworker to regularly inspect her house....

The first years of parenting are hard for any couple. But for Roxanne and Eric LaManna, who live in upstate New York, they were beyond imaginable. After the birth of their first child, Roxanne suffered from postpartum depression. After the birth of their second, Eric was diagnosed with leukemia. Shifting into parenthood while supporting one another through these events put a lot of stress on their marriage. But, with constant communication, they were able to make it through....

Taylor, an Ironman triathlete and author of Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals, spoke with Fatherly about the psychological strain of youth baseball and why parents should keep it very chill in the bleachers. RELATED: 5 Little League Drills That Teach Players to Hit and Field Every sport rewards a different sort of mental preparedness. They are all, in a sense, mental games....

The Couple: Destin (46) and Rachel (43) Married: 9 YearsTogether: 13 YearsKids: Two boys, one 10.5-year-old , one 3.5-years-oldLocation: CaliforniaJobs: Relationship experts and matchmakers (both of them) Broad question But how has becoming parents changed your relationship? Destin: Our kids have absolutely destroyed our relationship and sucked every ounce of life out of us. Rachel: Oh, no! D: I’m kidding! R: You start off in a relationship and it’s all about the romance and the lovey-dovey and just me and you....

Existing home sales fell 2.7 percent from March to April, the third straight monthly decline that still added up to 5.85 million sales nationwide. What’s interesting is that the factors that caused the surge—low mortgage rates and remote work, which looks likely to continue well after the pandemic is over—are still here. To be clear, the market is still hot. Last April, there were 4.37 million existing homes sold, so this month’s number is still up about a third year-over-year....

Responding to the thread, user u/TalmadgeReynolds said: “This happened to my wife’s grandmother. She’s still alive (in her 90s) and her father had a secret second family. They met at his funeral. When the secret wife saw the life this man had built and lived with his public wife, the secret wife said: ‘I always knew there was someone else, but I didn’t know that I was the someone else....

Midnights seems fine, but it feels like the same old Taylor who was being “22” and sort of depressed at a party, in a way that feels glamorous and fundamentally not relatable to anyone over 35. Taylor Swift has no obligation to be relatable to anyone who is “old,” by the way. But two years later, it’s shocking that for a brief moment, Taylor was relevant to dads who love craft beer and vinyl reissues of obscure albums from the National....

“It’s far easier said than done,” he says. “I can’t stand seeing my daughter upset for one minute. I want to make it better.” It’s natural to want to alleviate a child’s pain and to provide immediate assistance when struggles arise, but short-term and long-term happiness may be at odds. In an attempt to keep children happy now, many parents may be failing to help children develop the skills to pursue happiness for the rest of their lives....

Which is why we nearly lost our minds when we spotted what could be one of the most gorgeous dress-up knight capes ever. For $25, it’s almost too gorgeous to be real. And you get two capes in one. One side of this cape features a silver and blue knight emblem, while the other side has brilliant dragon scales all over it. So why buy it, you might wonder? Fair question....

Star Wars: Jedi Challenges is an augmented reality game that lets you and your kids train to become Jedis through a suite of different games. The game includes a headset, a lightsaber, and an app which holds said games. The best, Light Saber Battles, involves slicing off the limbs of battle droids with your saber until they collapse into a heap of parts. The other games include Holochess, “the ultimate game of concentration”, which you might remember from A New Hope; and Strategic Combat, in which you are a general commanding troops in a large-scale ground war....

Just this week, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott expressed his concern with what he described as “pornography or other inappropriate content” in schools, according to Houston Chronicle. But in reality, there hasn’t actually been a recent scourge of offensive material sneaking into school libraries. Instead, these bans simply result in removing books that discuss the experiences of Black, LBGT, and other historically marginalized people. In Goddard, Kansas, a suburb of Wichita, the school district has ordered 29 different books to be placed on hold from any checkouts, reports KMUW, a local public radio station....

Here’s how I arrived at this resolute conclusion: A few Movie Nights ago, we rented Spider-Man: Homecoming, the 374th and most recent Spider-Man movie and the youngest-skewing, funniest, and most accessible entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you haven’t seen it — no spoilers are forthcoming, promise — it casts Spider-Man as a pleasantly isolated 15-year-old dork, one whose powers derive primarily from his fancy Tony Stark-built suit instead of the spider bite from the comics, so it’s a lot more concerned with faux-paternal relationships, prom crushes, and adolescent identity crises than saving the world from galaxy-sized hell-demons....

RELATED: The Best Baby Swings, Bouncers, And Rockers to Soothe A Wailing Kid To Sleep The not-at-all-dangerous-looking SkyCurve Platform Swing is a home version of the pirate ship amusement ride. It holds up to 4 kids and 400 pounds (or you and a buddy) on a 5 x 3-foot polypropylene mat similar to that of a trampoline. And because you know that one of the older kids is going to see if it can really go 360-degrees, its metal frame is padded to prevent further injury....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Sleep You’re Missing the Minimum by a Mile The National Sleep Foundation recommends adults get between 7 and 9 hours of sleep every night. They broaden that range to suggest as little as 6 hours may be acceptable for some (but not many) individuals. Most new parents, however, find themselves nowhere near that mark: In fact, 76 percent say they feel sleep deprived, and one study estimated new parents lose six weeks’ worth of sleep during a baby’s first year....

Using Slate’s handy cord-cutter’s calculator, we priced out a few streaming packages to see how they stacked up. The “Up To Speed Around The Water Cooler” Package The “My Kid’s College Plan Is Pegged To A 3-Team Parlay” Package NBA League Pass + MLB.tv + NHL Game Center + Sling TV + a digital antenna for over-the-air football broadcasts = $574.94/year This is more live games than you could watch in a lifetime, plus all the screaming ESPN talking heads you can handle....

As things around the country change, it’s a fact for some families that their children might be playing with children in limited daycare interactions, or, perhaps with extended family. Still, for now, you probably want your kids to not get too close to other kids. Which is, apparently, why the lightsaber toy was invented? Most Star Wars lightsaber toys are about 3 feet long. So, if toy kids are dueling with those, and just the ends of the lightsabers are colliding, you’ve got your six feet of social distance right there....

Curry began by talking about his own wife and mother and how being around the two of them has made him the type of man who is 100 percent aware of a woman’s ability to be independently successful in business and in life. But as his daughter Riley begins to express interest in cooking and basketball, two male-dominated fields, he expressed some fear that she might be cast aside because she’s a woman....

“People often ignore others with whom they are physically interacting in order to use their smartphone instead,” the study reads. “Phubbing, seems to have become normative in everyday communication.” It’s pretty well documented that too much screen-time can cause a person to feel less satisfied in their relationship. One study found that, when a person feels like their partner was phubbing them, it “created conflict and led to lower levels of reported relationship satisfaction....

old age. Their lifestyle is probably to thank for it.The Tsimane are a group of about 16,000 Indigenous people who live in remote villages in the Bolivian jungle. They survive off of hunting, gathering, fishing, and farming. This means their diet is high in fiber and includes plenty of vegetables, fish, and lean meats. They’re also highly physically active.Americans and Europeans, on the other hand, follow a diet high in sugar and saturated fats....

The ruling has sweeping implications for the tens of thousands of children conceived through IVF. READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to IVF Many people think of AI and IVF as similar procedures, but there are several key differences. Artificial insemination involves taking donor sperm and implanting it directly into a woman’s uterus. In vitro fertilization, however, is a much newer process that involves growing an embryo in a test tube, and then implanting that embryo into a mother....