That’s why Biden’s universal pre-kindergarten plan, which would extend universal, free pre-k to all children ages 3 and 4, is so massive: it’s another two years of free schooling for kids. And a new study proves just how urgent putting the plan into action is — not just for parent’s wallets, but also for their kid’s brains. Here’s The Background on the Study In the 1990s, Boston expanded their publicly funded pre-K program, making it possible for more people to access the program....

RELATED: How To Keep Your House Tidy With A New Baby How To Get Ride of Toxins and Chemicals It turns out the average American home is one hell of a chemical shitstorm. Of the 80,000 chemicals approved for human use, zero have been tested for child safety; a child’s room can be 300 times more toxic than the rest of the house. Fortunately, there are some simple, effective changes you can make that will limit your kid’s exposure to noxious fumes or chemical clouds....

The show’s cancellation, for many, feels long overdue — and marks a changing cultural shift away from a television show that many people found to be entertaining, if trashy, reality television. Perhaps watching people get arrested is no longer fun for millions of viewers; it’s hard not to see why. The news comes after A&E, another cable network, didn’t air last weekend’s episodes of Live PD, a television show that live-streams police officers on duty as they arrest people....

An Ask Reddit thread started earlier today with user rivergame posing the question, “Parents of Reddit, what ‘why?’ Has your toddler thrown you that even Google couldn’t answer?” It didn’t take long for the questions to come in, and they did not disappoint. FunetikPrugresiv shared a conversation he was had with his son, who pointed and asked, “Daddy, what’s that”? He answered back, “that’s a cow” only to be hit back with, “why....

Unsurprisingly a lot of the stories revolved around cursing, which might be the number one thing that adults do that they’d rather kids just didn’t imitate. One story involving a quick trip to the museum resulted in not only the child using an obscenity but asking an amputee a hilariously impolite question Fortunately, people tend to be forgiving when the culprits are small children. Naturally, because kids, at least one story in the thread had to deal with going to the bathroom in the totally wrong place for a reason that would only make sense to a child....

And, for those who never personally knew Carle, there’s one simple and comforting fact; he’s permanently immortal thanks to the ever-emerging butterfly who appears at the end of his famous 1969 book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. As both an illustrator and a writer, Carle’s distinct style is recognizable both to the small infant who can’t speak and to the exhausted parent reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear for the millionth time....

The 84-year-old retired actor’s massive property is located in Charleston and features a nearly 1,500-square-foot farmhouse that has two bedrooms, a 2,000-square-foot woodshop, a hobby house that has a garden, plus a garage just for boats, a horse-training ring, and, of course, a whole lot of pasture to enjoy. If that wasn’t enough to tickle your fancy, the ranch is only 16 miles north of the Sundance Mountain Resort, which was also owned by Redford until he sold it back in 2020....

Still, he’s not going to turn away from the spectacle. In Bennett’s experience, the World Cup brings so much joy and meaning that it’s worth paying attention to, even if his feelings about the tournament are intensely conflicted. “The true joy to me is an awareness that for a month, we are about to make deeply powerful, collective memories,” Bennett says. “Joyful ones. Ones of challenge. Ones that feel so dark at the moment but so meaningful in hindsight....

“We should never forget that there were people in our government who will continue to be in our government who were totally fine with separating children and their parents,” she says, during an afternoon interview the day after domestic terrorists stormed the capitol, gleefully posing for pictures while ransacking federal property. Bee watched the marauding with dismay, sadness, and a profound sense of loss. “It has been truly mind-blowing to have a topical comedy show during this whole era....

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools adopted various creative measures to limit the spread of the virus, many going to strictly virtual learning. Others adopted a truncated school week. Now that much of the pandemic furor has subsided, many of those districts have held on to the four-day school week to address budgetary and staffing shortages. According to a new study published in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the results have been mixed for everyone involved....

It’s All About Your Marriage Research on children from broken homes usually define family unhappiness by the relationship between the parents, as perceived by the children. In one of the most famous studies on the subject, researchers calculated family happiness by assessing “the amount of parental quarreling, arguing, attempted domination by each parent, lack of mutual activities and interest, and an overall evaluation of happiness made by the [researcher] as reported by their children” and then also rated “the marital happiness of both parents was rated average, unhappy, or very unhappy by the adolescent....

Still, managing a relationship is work and managing children is double-work. He acknowledges even before our interview kicks off that he’s going to be interrupted. He’s not apologizing. He’s just stating facts. It is what it is. Wolf doesn’t see the world through rose-colored glasses, which would hide his piercing blue eyes (a massive career mistake). He’s a realist. And, as things have gotten real and realer he’s only gotten more realistic in his approach....

Booking an appointment with a professional Dominatrix seems like a pretty extreme move, especially to the pedestrians out there. What could regular couples gain from a trip to the dungeon? I think heterosexual couples tend to have one idea of what sex is and why it needs to be a certain way. BDSM allows you to explore things that fall outside of the standard penis-in-vagina sex. There are other intimate things to do....

“We were able to grow to understand each other,” Senghor says. “We were able to debate, argue, laugh, and see our relationship as father and son grow through the written word. You experience a level of intimacy when you read or write in a letter that you just can’t get to in any other format.” Written correspondence was such a powerful force in Senghor’s relationship with his dad that he structured his recently released book Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father’s Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom as letters to his two sons....

My anthropology class replied, “SpongeBob Squarepants.” Their thunderous response filled the auditorium. Nearly 20 years ago, the underwater world of SpongeBob and his quirky, colorful friends debuted as a cartoon. The cultural icon is now a Broadway musical, up for 12 Tony awards. My follow-up question, however, was met with silence: I asked students what they could tell me about the real Bikini Bottom. Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob’s fictional home, is based on an actual place in the Pacific Ocean....

Last month, inflation rates in the United States hit another record high at 9.1%, and consumer goods are exploding in price. Although some goods are dropping in cost — gas prices, namely — a new survey from Primerica and Change Research shows the impact the state of the economy has on the middle class. The survey polled 1,384 adults over 18 years old and found that 75% say their income is “falling behind the cost of living....

None of this is actually as hard as it sounds — though it’s not easy. It does take real effort, strategy, and a bit of context to navigate. We’ve got you covered with some survival tips for new dads. Establish a Routine. Now. One of the best, most practical tips for new dads is that they start to establish a schedule long before the baby arrives. A solid, baby-led schedule can mean the difference between a kid that eats and sleeps easily and a kid that makes the nights and days a living hell....

Well, sort of. Social psychologist Eli Finkel, Director of the Relationships and Motivation Lab at Northwestern University, author of The Allor Nothing Marriage, and one of the leading experts in marriage and family relationships, has conducted extensive research into this specific “love hack” — Finkel’s term for a brief exercise to aid martial satisfaction — and has proven that it not only helps take the edge off arguments but also facilitates more trust and openness between couples....

However, it’s not all bad news. Many men are enjoying happy, successful marriages and partnerships. What’s their secret? Well, no happy man is alike. But all happy men do share certain qualities. That’s what Dr. Fran Walfish, Beverly Hills family and relationship psychotherapist, author of The Self-Aware Parent, has learned from her decades of working with scores of married couples. “The biggest common denominator that all successful, long-lasting marriages have is two willing partners who solemnly commit to staying together ‘no matter what,’” she says....

The reason for this roughhousing urge is deeply ingrained in the animal depths of our DNA. But is it a good thing to give into your inner lion? Is it okay to roughhouse with your kid by knocking them down with a gentle heavy paw? The answer will probably make you want to roar (but in a good way). The Benefits Of Rough Play Research suggests that when you get on the floor with your kid and wrap them up, some good things are going down....