Vanity Fair contributing editor and author of The Bling Ring, Nancy Jo Sales, wants all parents to recognize that we’re entering a crazy kaleidoscope of pubescent sexuality, and the rise of free, ubiquitous porn has brought out the worst instincts in confused teen boys. Apparently their social media moral barometer points in the same direction as their dick. READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Keeping Kids Safe Online In her new book, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, Sales spoke with hundreds of teens from the Bronx to Boca for the past 2-and-a-half years....

For an up to date list of charities to give to on Giving Tuesday, go here. The list below, which is intended to be timely, includes a variety of non-profits — from RAICES Texas, a migrant advocacy organization, to a playground restoration non-profit — that invest donations into services and good works that need doing. Children’s Defense Fund The Short Pitch: Advocate for kids.The Long Pitch: The Children’s Defense Fund helps lobby the federal government and state governments to enact a handful of programs proven to improve the wellbeing of children....

What Is Google “Frightgeist?” Google knows a thing or two about Halloween — specifically, what costumes people are googling, what they want to know about the holiday, and where certain holiday costumes are the most popular. This year, the company looked to its data to help parents and their kids narrow down what they should be for Halloween with an outstanding spooky website (with wonderful Halloween-style music in the background) called “Frightgeist....

While listing ways to reduce crime, which included restoring God into communities, Abbott suggested, “We need better parenting, greater parental involvement.” But the governor has a record of eroding social support programs that help parents raise healthy and well-adjusted kids. If he wants better parenting and more parental involvement in Texas, he should be aware that his own politics are working against him. Let’s be generous with Abbott here and take him at his word, even though “better parenting” is vaguery to the point of being meaningless....

Families usually welcome a baby to the mix with great expectations. But as a mother’s bond with a child grows, it’s likely that her other relationships are deteriorating. I surveyed decades of studies on the psychological effects of having a child to write my book “Great Myths of Intimate Relationships: Dating, Sex, and Marriage,” and here’s what the research literature shows. Nowhere to go but down? When people marry, they’re usually in love and happy to be tying the knot....

But how much exercise? Apparently, the new study, which used data from 50,000 men and women who wore exercise monitors, found that briskly walking for at least 11 minutes a day could actually reverse some of the most harmful consequences of sitting for hours a day. The study found that extremely sedentary people — i.e. those who did not walk for at least 11 minutes a day — were at a high risk of dying young, but just moving a tiny amount could lower the risk of early death substantially....

Last month, the basketball great joined the podcast Road Trippin’ and discussed the film and how production is going, pointing to the fact that since the majority of the movie is animated, and production is currently working on the animated parts of the film, that production was going more or less as scheduled. “Just like everything in the world, everything is slowed down a little bit, but we’re still on target,” he told the hosts....

Each Hexbug Robotic Soccer car is a little less than four inches long and runs on three included AAA batteries. The remote control runs on two LR44 watch batteries (also included) and has five buttons: forward, backward, left, right, and kick. This last button activates a flipper on the car that taps the ball out of an open rear compartment, hopefully to a teammate or into the back of the net....

Katyna: The physical challenges of pregnancy definitely changed from our first pregnancy to the last one. With our first pregnancy, the morning sickness was a lot. It happened quite often, and I had to go on bedrest for a bit right before our daughter was born. Our second kid was a little bit easier. We didn’t have any major difficulties at all. But my pregnancy with our last was a lot more challenging than my first daughter....

Caught on a home security camera, the 33-second clip starts with the family returning from a walk. The mom leaves her younger child in the stroller and their dog in the driveway while she punches in the garage code. When the baby starts getting restless, the mom turns away from the garage—and her older daughter, who takes the opportunity to ride the opening door all the way to the top....

The two specifically addressed how Wade, and his wife, Gabrielle Union, protect Zaya from harmful comments on social media after getting a taste of how toxic the social media lanscape can be with Wade’s older child, Zaire, who is a professional basketball player in the NBA G League. “We experienced [the toxicity of social media] a few years earlier with Zaire,” Wade said. “We put him on social media…seeing the ugliness and negativity that my son dealt with just because he’s my son and he played basketball,” he knew that wasn’t what he would do for Zaya when she was old enough....

Bob was as much a totem of gay pride as he was a calculated parry against the strikes of anti-gay activism. He was created to antagonize society at a time when Gay Rights were hard to come by. And boy did it work. According to the anti-gay lobby group Protect America’s Children, Bob was “evidence of the desperation the homosexual campaign has reached in its effort to put the homosexual lifestyle across to the American people....

If more than 30 percent of a person’s income goes into their home, they’re “house poor,” meaning that they spend so much on their mortgage, repairs, and other such overhead costs that they can’t afford to save or even the daily expenses of life. It’s not as rare a situation as many might believe. While American homeowners are generally in far better shape than they were during the housing crisis and great recession of the 2000s, a 2017 joint Harvard study found that 38....

What Is Self-Determination Theory? Introduced to psychology in the 1980s by Edward L. Deci and Richard Ryan, self-determination theory (SDT) suggests that people perform best when they have three fundamental needs satisfied: They feel a sense of autonomy, experience mastery and competence, and feel a genuine connection to others. Research seems to suggest that’s as true for adults as it is for kids. “SDT proposes that when children understand why something is important, they feel autonomous,” explains Genevieve Mageau, Ph....

Now, constructing a treehouse is not a project for the lazy. This isn’t something you do on a whim. It requires planning, commitment, attention to detail and safety. A careful parsing of the materials. And of course, an eye for design, because you don’t want a hideous blight on your property, sticking out from the trees like a sore thumb. Caleb Mulvena, an architect based in New York City who specializes in sustainable, sleek designs at Mapos, the firm he co-founded, planned out and built a gorgeous wood treehouse for his three kids at the family’s weekend lake house in Connecticut....

“You want the penis to be a little on the larger side before you start digging deep down under the foreskin,” says Florida-based urologist Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt. “You don’t want to peel it back when the penis is small and injure it. Don’t force it.” It turns out that when the foreskin is tight on a baby penis, it acts as a pretty great natural barrier. That means that when an uncircumcised child is very young, their penis foreskin doesn’t require much cleaning or special care beyond regular bathing....

Parents have options. “I think that actions speak louder than words sometimes,” says Dr. Dana Dorfman, a psychologist who has been working with families and their teens for more than 30 years. “Although words are often very important and powerful.” When using those important words, parents should make sure compliments are inclusive of their daughter’s whole being: their humor, their wit, and their interests. It’s also helpful to acknowledge that a daughter has a mind and what’s happening in that mind is valuable....

Well, you’ve got two options. The first is to invest a great deal of time, effort, and money into getting a thicker-looking beard, whether by pursuing hair restoration measures or somehow faking it with a spray-on product, while the second is to simply own it and walk the walk of other great men whose patchy, uneven beards lend their look a great deal of charm and uniqueness. Like many grooming and fashion trends in Hollywood, the full beard worn by many A-listers has set a certain standard, but we’re here to bust that belief and embrace the way more realistic, come-as-you-are patchy beard....

If you’re confused about the benefits of taking your kids to the library, let’s first start by listing all the downside of visiting a neighborhood library: That’s it. These are the only “bad” things about the library as far as I can tell. Of course, many can (and do) argue that against the dreaded scourge of other children, who infect your kid with bacteria, viruses, and bad behaviors. But, other children are everywhere and their runny noses are not more contagious in the library than they are on the playground or in the coffee shop....

Those congratulatory purchases – often meant to give yourself an emotional boost, however fleeting – probably seem harmless enough. You’ve got some money, so why not spend it?The problem is, you’re taking fantastic opportunities to build wealth and realize your long-term goals and throwing them down the proverbial crapper. Financial gurus have a name for it: lifestyle creep. Your earnings are going up, but your spending is accelerating almost as quickly....