“One of the big things that we do focus on is communication,” says Elsa Leal, a family engagement specialist at Child360, an early childhood education and daycare provider service that helps form healthier communication between providers and parents. “Being able to chat with your provider is very important. Especially since you’re leaving your child there, the most special person in your life.” Elsa has seen the struggles parents have when it comes to communicating with their providers before, and vice versa....

RELATED: The 14 Best Holiday Gifts for Dad This Season Here’s the simple truth: you put a ribbon on a car the same way you put a ribbon on, say, a oddly shape kid’s toy: You buy a bow that has adhesive on the back and slap it on the windshield or on the roof. There are plenty of car bows available in stores and online (a weird number actually) and they range in price from $9 for a basic 18-inch bow from Michaels to $80 for a massive red-velvet-and-gold-trimmed bow....

I’m not a big brute of a guy. I’m plenty sensitive and in touch with my emotions and do plenty of that “I feel” talk with my wife and kids (three boys, ages, 3, 5, and 7). That said, I think my house has gone way the hell too far in the direction of coddling. We talk about emotions and nothing but emotions all the time and at the drop of a physical scuffle, my wife intercedes and makes everyone uncomfortably talk it out....

That said, in more recent years, Jerry Seinfeld is mostly known for his meta-reality series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which, although fun, often feels like a prelude to an actual comedy show that never really begins. Seinfeld has, also appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it’s been a while. And, even his last stand-up special on Netflix, Jerry Before Seinfeld, probably wasn’t exactly what you were looking for. This is why one segment of Seinfeld’s new Netflix stand-up comedy special, 23 Hours to Kill, is so refreshing....

As a piece of jewelry, Jewelbots are bracelets that come with three interchangeable bands and two flower charms. You can mix and match, trade with friends (their friends, not yours), and buy other styles more to your daughter’s liking. Simple enough, right? Except not really, because these things aren’t ordinary jewelry. Thanks to “patent pending electronics” (but no GPS tracking), the bracelets can sync over Bluetooth with up to eight other Jewelbots, allowing friends to send each other secret messages....

“I had zero hands in crafting Billions,” Hodgman tells me on the phone. “Actually, I’m one of two wolves named Billions, the other played of course, by my brother in animation and my idol in real life GZA from Wu-Tang Clan. It was a very strange experience to portray his wolf brother. All I knew going into the role was this question: Do you want to play a wolf that wears a turtleneck and thinks he’s Carl Sagan?...

Apatow has been accused of navel gazing and pled guilty repeatedly. His films follow his life. There’s 40-Year-Old Virgin then Knocked Up then This is 40 then Funny People. These are comedies and also meditation on manhood and growing up and caring too much or too little. Apatow seems to owe his success at least in part to the banality of his preoccupations. He’s normal. “I wouldn’t call being a dad amazing,” he says....

With the powerful JWST, NASA has been able to take a more detailed look at parts of the universe we’ve not been able to explore deeply before. The latest snap has allowed researchers to see a ton of detail of a brown dwarf with an atmosphere of really hot sand, Space.com notes. Yeah, it’s cool! Using the telescope’s NIRSpec and MIRI instruments, NASA got a detailed look at a brown dwarf — an object that’s smaller than planet but larger than a star with characteristics of both — called VHS 1256b....

According to NASA, the new photos show some rings — Neptune’s faint dust rings — that “have not been detected since NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Neptune during its flyby in 1989.” It also captured the planet’s brighter, narrow rings. “It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we’ve seen them in the infrared,” said Heidi Hammel, a Neptune system expert and interdisciplinary scientist for the JWST project....

The analysis backs up what some physicians have been seeing in the field as more recreational cannabis products make their way to market. “Honestly, we knew it was increasing. I work in the [emergency department] as well as taking calls for the poison center, and so even though I was seeing more cases coming through the ER, when we looked at the data nationwide, we were definitely surprised,” study co-author and emergency medicine physician Dr....

Indeed, according to K-12 Dive, education experts predict what they refer to as a “kindergarten bubble,” a group of kids from 4 to 6 who are vastly differently prepared from one another when it comes formal schooling. This group will have a wider range of skills due to their different social and academic experiences during the COVID-19 educational year. This will be a doozy for teachers, kids, and parents.No one can blame parents for keeping their kids at home during the pandemic, for any number of reasons....

As for why it’s selling out so quickly, that’s very well known: The ship is gorgeous. You don’t even have to be a Star Wars fan to appreciate the level of detail on this thing. What was already one of company’s largest kits at 5,195 pieces before being retooled, the new Falcon now measures almost 3-feet by 2-feet (stands 8-inches tall) and comprises a whopping 7,541 pieces. It includes a concealed blaster cannon, lowering boarding ramp, a detachable canopy, and even a gunnery station from which any of the eight-included mini figurines can blast Tie-Fighters while waiting to make the jump to hyperspace....

“Even friends have bad days,” I’d say as my kid looked at me through hot tears. But now it’s summer and fuck it. Caleb is not my son’s friend. Children, in my experience, are not blind to the world. But they have very circumscribed areas of social focus that extend to people they recognize as being relevant to them. Occasionally, they’ll notice strangers, often on the subway and often in a very loud verbal way (“Daddy, why is that man so little?...

It was devastating. She continued to win. Every time, and at pretty much everything we played. This conflict didn’t ruin our relationship, however. If anything, it advanced it. Nearly ten years after that first date, we still play all manner of games together. She crushes me in Catan. She murders in Mario Kart. She’s superior at Spades and euphoric during Euchre, Spades’ slightly faster, much more complicated Midwestern equivalent. Her prowess in every game to which she applies herself is what makes defeating her so satisfying....

Similar to Skyrocket Toy’s Recoil, another A/R laser tag game that debuted last year, 6DoF is essentially a two-grip toy blaster that attaches to a smartphone. Simply slide the phone in, fire up the app, and you’re ready to do battle in virtual/augmented reality. It uses positional tracking technology (SLAM, ARKit, ARCore) so when you run, jump, and duck behind the couch, it runs, jumps, and ducks on screen with you ⏤ no goggles required though....

The study examined records of more than one million newborns, dating from 1997 to 2016. The researchers found that children of fathers who had taken the metformin during the three months before conception were more likely to be born with a congenital disorder, specifically genital defects in those assigned male at birth. (The children’s mothers had no history of diabetes or high blood pressure.) Metformin is a popular oral medication used to help control Type 2 diabetes; it’s designed to improve the body’s blood sugar metabolism....

Meural is actually more like the Netflix of museum-quality art than that Sharper Image digital picture frame you got but never used. Each frame holds a 27-inch, wi-fi connected, high-definition screen that vividly displays classic and contemporary art and photography from Meural’s vast, subscription-based collection. Built-in ambient light sensors adjust the image to make it look as natural as the genuine article — everything from French impressionism to abstract to stunning modern landscape photography and even “Motion Art....

Michael Caine is a gift to the world. He’s an incredible actor who’s brought so many cool characters to life. And he seems just as charming and sweet in real life, too, and the energy he puts into social media is what we all need to strive for, too. The 89-year-old actor doesn’t tweet a lot. In fact, he recently tweeted for the first time since January and we’re so glad he did....

It’s always tempting to reach for a cultural explanation for horror — particularly when the cultural debate has taken a turn for the confrontative and when rationality wilts in the face of the facts. But this sort of reasoning assumes that individual behavior emerges from collective behavior, which is not precisely true and is imprecisely reductive. In his piece, Michael Ian Black, who is smart, well-intentioned, and, this op-ed aside, very funny, does not, for instance, interrogate trends in violence, in mental health, or in the wellbeing of children....