Chrissy and her husband, John Legend, have been open about grieving their son, Jack, who died at just 20-weeks gestation. The mom to Luna and Miles has been really open about the complicated emotions of giving birth to a baby she didn’t get to bring home. And doesn’t get to raise. All of that after a very challenging pregnancy with some pretty scary complications. It’s heavy, and most families feel like they have to carry all that weight on their own....

The holidays and how each family celebrates tend to vary. We all have our own traditions and those drive how we move about the holiday. And that’s why there’s so much variation in how long someone’s Christmas tree stays up. But, if you wanted to go by actual Christmas tradition, our decorated trees should stay up until January 6. According to Southern Living, there are actually 12 days of Christmas, like the song....

Here’s what you need to know. Two new recalls have been announced for rapid at-home COVID-19 tests. These are in addition to four other brands that have previously been recalled, including Empowered Diagnostics CovClear COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test and ImmunoPass COVID-19 Neutralizing Antibody Rapid Tests and the LuSys Laboratories Antigen Tests and LuSys Laboratories Antibody Tests. What two COVID-19 tests were recalled? The more recent recalls from the FDA are the SD Biosensor STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Home Test and the Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test....

Pitched with the clever tagline “shaken not slurred,” Curious Elixirs are herbal-based, non-alcoholic libations inspired by popular craft cocktails. Think hibiscus Dark & Stormies or “dry 5-spice citrus concoctions.” They’re the brainchild of a Brooklyn-based bartender (quelle surprise!), are blended in small batches, and come ready-to-drink in 12-ounce brown glass bottles — no additional ingredients or mixing required. In addition to being booze-free, these “soft ‘tails” contain no sugar, gluten, dairy, nuts, or GMOs....

Need jogging strollers, car seats, high chairs, diaper bags, or anything else? Buy now. Seriously. Need help knowing what to get? We’ve got your back. Fatherly is collecting all the best Cyber Monday deals for new parents. These are the best of the bunch…. Bloom Retro Solid Wood Crib: This mid-century modern wooden crib is as handsome as it is well-constructed, and you can get it complete with a mattress and rail for just $950, nearly $400 off the normal price for such a bundle....

Over the weekend, Kelly’s son participated in a Lego robotics tournament and rather than share his pride for his son’s accomplishment, he decided to take the opportunity to poke fun at his son’s hobby and imply that anyone participating in the tournament was disappointing their dad. The tweet proved to be divisive but it turns out Kelly was just getting started and went on to share his less-than-enthusiastic perspective on having to spend his time watching his son flex his STEM skills....

“My dad has been feeling his sheets being messed with and someone sitting on his bed in the night so he set up a camera,” Shyann Rachael wrote on Sunday. “I’m freaked [the fuck] out. Look at the sheets lifting up and what comes out of the side of it. It like dissolves into thin air??” In the video, which shows her dad sleeping, a corner of the sheets slowly rises before what looks like a ghostly head appears....

Even before COVID-19 made families uneasy about going inside with their kids for long periods of time, the whole appeal of going to a Disney park, in general, is to be outside. If you take a look at a sample itinerary for the Galatic Starcruiser experience, most of it will be spent well, on the Galatic Starcruiser, meaning, inside of a very expensive, very big Star Wars toy that is fused with a hotel and populated by Star Wars cosplayers who might prompt you to participate in some kind of “unexpected story moment” which, if you’ve ever been to a dinner theater, sounds very uncool....

“In the area of custody disputes, legislatures and courts effectively enforce Intensive Parenting norms,” law professors Gaia Bernstein and Zvi Triger wrote in the University of California Davis Law Review. “Intensive Parenting can become over-parenting.” A growing amount of evidence suggests that over-parenting such as helicopter parenting sets children to lead more anxious, entitled, and ineffective lives by robbing them of certain coping skills. However, as more states accept that the ample engagement of both parents is what’s best for children and move towards 50/50 model, helicopter behaviors aren’t propelling parents in family court anymore, Spencer Schiefer, an Arizona-based divorced attorney, explains....

“Viewing pornography, under certain social conditions, may have negative effects on marital stability,” said coauthor on the study Samuel Perry of the University of Oklahoma, in a statement. READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Porn Adding to the nuance is this new study, which examines what happens to a relationship when people who did not previously watch porn start doing so after they get married. For the study, Perry and colleagues analyzed the responses of 2,120 married adults from three separate waves of the General Social Survey — a dataset that tracks (among other things) porn consumption and marital status....

First, I’m no gear expert. I’m no expert at all. That’s the entire point of my series. When it comes to products, I’ve done what most new parents do: read the online reviews, discussed products with my wife, and tried to sift through the piles of baby ephemera that spills out of the bins in my son’s nursery. Is one product truly better than another? Will my son grow up to resent his Father for not providing him with a selection of all-natural wooden rattles?...

Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes claimed loudly (and not without hubris) that the event he created was the “largest secular holiday in the world,” but that was always a bit disingenuous. The philosophical underpinnings of the environmental movement in America and in California, where things kicked off in earnest after the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, are deeply entwined with religion. If Thoreau, Emerson, and California’s own Muir shared a purpose, it was to deliver a spiritualist counterpunch to the fetishization of work and consumption endemic to a nation purportedly founded on protestant ideals....

Dads Give Toddlers a Cognitive Boost Infants and toddlers with supportive, involved parents have better cognitive outcomes than other children generally, but the Father Effect is especially pronounced. One 1991 study found that infants with involved dads attained higher cognitive scores by age 1; another confirmed that this effect continues through at least 36 months. The data below comes from a 2006 study that found that toddlers with supportive parents score higher on cognitive tests — and that even children with supportive mothers performed far better if their fathers were supportive, too....

I didn’t. Fatherhood sneaks up on your friendships. When I became a dad, the happy-hour invites stopped. The cool members of my office (think Jim, Pam, Ryan, and Oscar) started grabbing drinks at the bar down the street without asking me. Actually, I lied. The invites didn’t immediately stop. I accepted one and brought my infant daughter along, in one of those dad slings. (I loved those things because they allowed me to monitor how alive she was just by skin contact instead of having to interrupt conversations and check a car seat for breath every 20 minutes....

Stevie Nicks joined in on the fun, lacing up her rollerblades while listening to the iconic track off of one of the most important rock albums of the 20th century. A new generation of teenagers were subsequently introduced to the album, forty years after their parents were, and now, as a result of that resurging fame, Rumours is back on the Billboard top 10 once again, 42 years after it’s release....

The rule takes effect on August 21, 2022, and includes Medicaid bans on gender-affirming surgery, puberty blockers, and hormone therapy. Per the publication, Florida is at least the 11th state to block Medicaid funds for this usage. In a statement made to Axios, Brock Juarez, the AHCA communications director, said that “several services for the treatment of gender dysphoria… are not consistent with widely accepted professional medical standards and are experimental and investigational with the potential for harmful long-term affects....

“It’s a show that just drew people in, and we’d just talk about the show through all kinds of different lenses,” Taylor said to open the conference. “And for me, Chris was the tributary to the ocean of love and laughter that is Ted Lasso.” It’s the odd cultural phenomenon, in that people gradually discovered it during the pandemic and came to appreciate the show mainly in isolation. There were no watch parties or live tweets as most of us didn’t give the show a shot until after Apple released the entirety of the first season....

You can’t call it a knowingness because for some reason they still can’t grasp that the spittle flying so frequently from our lips, dappling their little scrunched-up face, is a bad thing that they don’t want to see again. It’s more like a vague understanding and perverse enjoyment they take in trying to break us down in almost every mental and physical way. They don’t really know that this is what happens, but they do have some inkling that we hate almost everything about what they are doing — and they’re fine with it....

For the study, published today in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, researchers set out to find out whether women would censor their sexual communication to protect their male partners’ sense of masculinity. The answer is a resounding yes, according to the 152 women they surveyed about their sex lives. Overall, participants said they orgasmed during 64% of sexual encounters. But when they didn’t, they faked orgasms 18% of the time....