But be warned: It can be tricky to find those games. Many of the best out there are either single player only — and difficult to share with kids who are easily bored — or disqualified because of gratuitous sex and/or violence. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to find titles that up to four players can play locally and that have an ESRB rating that confirms they’re OK for kids to play....

So let’s get back to basics. The ideal gym bag should be large enough to hold your gear and have compartments to quarantine the sweaty stuff. It should also look good enough to travel to the office before and after a workout and maybe even double as a weekend-trip duffle in a pinch. All of our picks, which we sourced from boutique manufacturers, international brands, and companies in between, meet these criteria....

RELATED: Give Your Kid An Extremely Early Driving Lesson With The Coolest Cutting Edge Toy Cars It includes some of the year’s hottest two- and four-wheelers, from monster trucks and food trucks to motorcycles and bicycles. Some are battery-powered, others pedal-powered. Some budget-friendly, others splurges. All are awesome, and certain to make kids of all ages the envy of the neighborhood. Ladies and gentlemen, start your proverbial engines. Rollplay Grill N Go Truck The Rollplay Grill N Go Food Truck is a hipster parent’s dream, a 6-volt, ride-on for kids ages 2- to 5-years-old with a pop-up play kitchen and ordering counter....

The only downside to a summer birthday is that it can be harder to round up other kids with so many families off on vacation. So we’ve included a few helpful tips for planning ahead for a truly great outdoor birthday party. But first: the 10 best outdoor activities you can organize for your kid’s next birthday party that will keep them happy, busy, and create memories that will last....

Podcasts on parenting are no different. There’s a whole bunch of them, and most are either bad or so niche as to be irrelevant to most of us. But the best among them can provide us with a fresh perspective, expert advice when we need it most, and comfort in the knowledge that we are not alone. After all…misery loves company. So we’ve sifted through the mountain of digital content to find the smartest, most pertinent, and funniest parenting podcasts out there....

The nostalgia-fueled explosion of retro game consoles has been a slow build over the past few years, but with Nintendo finally entering the mix, things have gotten nutty. With limited production runs and high demand, a lot of stores can barely keep products on the shelves. Generally, these game consoles are miniaturized versions of their retired units and carry a curated library of ‘greatest hits.’ They plug into modern TVs (mostly using HDMI), offer up-scaled graphics, and boast features nobody knew would exist back in 1986 to enhance that retro-gaming experience....

Sure, you’ll need to pay more than you would for your average-quality Bluetooth speaker — but not that much more. That is, unless you’re looking to. If you want to go truly high-end on a turntable-receiver-speaker combo, you can easily drop a second car’s worth on the whole thing. So where to start? We’ve got you. Here are three setups for three budgets. For the Newcomer If you’re looking to explore the vinyl revival but aren’t sure where to start, this entry-level turntable from renowned brand Audio-Technica looks pro, sounds great, and you can get it for less than $150....

Here’s everything you need to know. The most important part: the $1.9 trillion Stimulus Package will move forward on schedule Last night (or rather, this morning) ensured that the stimulus package will indeed move to the House, where Democrats alone can work on the package, write the bill, and pass it as soon as possible, on schedule. But the reports about last night are deeply confusing: did the minimum wage get rejected?...

According to CBS News, the latest report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics on May 5, 2021, the birth rate in the United States fell another four percent in 2020, a massive drop. This drop has landed the birth rate in the country at its lowest point since 1979 and continued a six-year trend of decline after the Great Recession tanked the American birth rate....

Why a Teen Bucket List? According to licensed marriage family therapist and professional clinical counselor Chisato Hotta, DSW, making a bucket list with your teen is conducive to bonding in a handful of ways.”It can help you and your teenager understand each other better, it can facilitate conversation, and it can help them learn how to set goals,” she says. Also, the planning process is a great way to model some of the executive functioning skills that teenagers will need as they head into adulthood....

Galen had been dropping hints for months, but that spring he abandoned subtlety for a more direct approach. Every request Katherine and I made of him he took as an opportunity to advance his cause. If I asked him to walk the dog, he’d say, “If I walk her, can I have a phone?” If I asked him to make his bed: “It’s made already. Does that mean I can get a phone?...

“A lot of people make the mistake to think that babies are not able to feel any complex emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger,” emergency room physician Dr. Hardik Soni explains. “Although babies have limited ways to express their emotions, they really do feel all of the emotions that any adult does.” In the same way and for some of the same reasons scientists used to believe babies were cognitively capable of experiencing pain, scientists essentially discounted mental anguish among the extremely young until about two decades ago....

Now, only 28 percent of people in the U.S. live in a county for which the CDC recommends masks indoors, according to CNN. Under the former CDC guidelines, masks were recommended in communities with a high risk of transmission. In the pandemic-ridden U.S., that amounted to roughly 99% of people in the U.S. being recommended to wear masks. The new guidelines base mask recommendations on different metrics: not only new cases but also COVID hospitalizations and hospital capacity....

The CDC recently updated its advice, reports New York Magazine, and now offers more information on different situations in which you might want to swab your own nose. The agency now suggests doing an at-home test if you have symptoms or have been exposed to someone with COVID-19, but also if you’re planning on “gathering indoors with others,” regardless of vaccination status or if you are symptomatic. The tests are not a perfect measure to see if you have the virus, but they can offer a little more risk reduction in terms of planning for indoor gatherings....

Just last week, the Centers for Disease Control rolled back mask guidelines for fully vaccinated individuals (and forgot kids in the process), and as a result, many state governments have followed suit and pulled back ordinances that require unilateral mask-wearing in stores, in businesses, and in public. But one major guidance, the CDC guidance on how to operate schools safely, has not yet been touched by the public health agency....

“I am writing because I am the 15 year old son of an anti-vaccine parent. I have spent the last 4 years trying to convince my mother that vaccines are safe,” /u/Danny691261 posted about five months ago. “I haven’t succeeded. So instead I am trying to research how to be vaccinated without my mother’s consent.” On another thread, 13-year-old /u/GoCommitYeet wrote, “I haven’t got vaccines since elementary school, Dad fell down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole, and my Mom agrees with him....

When it was announced that Tim Burton would be the director and Executive Producer of Wednesday, a Netflix series focussed on Wednesday Addams of The Addams Family and her mysterious and ooky coming of age adventures it felt like Burton was once again choosing the most obvious possible project and desperately trying to recapture past triumphs. Burton seems intent on making only the projects you would expect someone with his sensibility, history, and taste to make, ragingly unnecessary remakes, reboots, and adaptations like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, and 2019’s particularly poorly received Dumbo....

As people keep their distance to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, we still crave ways to be social. Sports broadcaster Lane Grindle came up with an idea and posted it to his Twitter account on Sunday. “What if we all put our Christmas lights back up,” he wrote. “Then we could get in the car and drive around and look at them. That seems like a fair social distancing activity....

“Anger and depression are natural byproducts of divorce,” says Nancy Cramer, founder of Correct Course Consulting. “So many of one’s hopes and dreams are wrapped up in a marriage, and to have it end is to take away future possibilities.” This emotional buildup, Cramer says, can very easily create to a poisonous stew of anxiety, guilt, and the need to undo what’s been done. “The endless loop of bargaining leads one down a rabbit hole of regret and blame,” she notes....

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