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On the one hand, I felt bad for the less-than-ideal circumstances. On the other, I was aware that the less-than-ideal circumstances were why I’d decided to make yoga a father-daughter activity in the first place. Life in our house is busy. Really, really busy. There are three kids, three jobs, and two parents. We have difficulty finding time for each other, let alone ourselves. Between my hectic work schedule, soccer practice, dance practice, and fully-booked weekends of sleepovers and swimming parties, we lose track of each other and wind up only catching up when we collapse collectively in a heap....

Meanwhile, the Senator, who could be coordinating targeted relief or investigating the systemic failure of the Texas electricity and gas infrastructure appeared to be heading on a beach vacation while his constituents froze. So, yeah, the photo went viral. Senator Ted Cruz quickly hopped back on a flight from Cancun to Houston on Thursday, February 18th, when the press came out and he released a statement trying to explain away why, exactly, he traveled to a resort town in the midst of a pandemic and the deaths of Texans from a state of emergency/natural disaster....

After months of negotiations that seemed to go nowhere, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer came away from the table with three big pieces of legislation that lean heavily on aspects of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act that was stonewalled by Manchin in December. “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will make a historic down payment on deficit reduction to fight inflation, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing, and reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030,” the two Senators said in a statement....

It’s now two years later and the Inglesina Fast Table still hangs from our table. Our daughter continues to enjoy sitting in it, even though she’s probably ready to graduate to a booster seat, and I assume will do so until she outweighs the 37-pound (3-year) limit and tips the whole damn thing over. The Inglesina isn’t new or anything ⏤ it’s been around for years, as far as I know ⏤ but it was new to me as first-time dad....

While inflation continues to crush us, the IRS is enacting inflation-related tax bracket changes for 2023 that could allow you to take home bigger paychecks and make tax returns less brutal. What is the IRS doing? On Tuesday, October 18, the IRS announced new marginal tax bracket adjustments, among many other changes, for the 2023 tax year to account for inflation. The announcement includes shifts in the standard deduction and shifting tax brackets....

Running shouldn’t stop — it is good for the mind and most of the body and exercise is a mood stabilizer. What needs to stop is business-as-usual running. We’re under threat from a fast-spreading respiratory disease. More specifically, members of the non-running community — people with respiratory and heart conditions, the overweight, and the aged — are at profound risk. Runners need to recognize that their jogging habit is less important than the health of others....

“Last night’s event put our crew members, customers, and federal and local officials in an unsettling situation that could have easily been avoided, and as such, this customer will not be permitted to fly on JetBlue in the future,” the airline told CNN in a statement Thursday. That’s a good thing, but it’s nowhere near the harsh penalty this guy deserves. When he did finally tell the flight attendants he’d tested positive, it set off a chain reaction....

On Thursday night, Trump held a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Whether or not he chose to do the rally on purpose in the hometown of Fred Rogers — or even remembers who the guy is — is unclear, but Fred Rogers’ widow, Joanne, is pissed about it, she revealed in an interview with The Daily Beast. While she admitted that Fred Rogers likely would not have commented on Trump or his presidency while he was alive, he is not alive, having passed away in 2003, and Joanne doesn’t host a television’s show for children, so she was pleased to say what she felt about the President....

Here’s what you need to know about the stance Manchin is taking, how families would suffer if he is successful, and what might actually happen to President Build Back Better agenda going forward. Why is the child tax credit the subject of negotiations? The expanded child tax credit was passed with Joe Manchin’s support as part of the American Rescue Plan in March, but it’s currently slated to last only until the end of this year....

On Monday, Jan. 11, Jennings said, “Sharing this stage with Alex Trebek was one of the greatest honors of my life. Not many things in life are perfect, but Alex did this job pretty much perfectly for more than 36 years, and it was even better up close.” He continued, “We were dazzled by his intelligence, charm, his grace… Like all ‘Jeopardy!’ fans, I miss Alex very much and I thank him for everything he did for all of us,” choking up as he gave the message....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lady Gaga is in early talks to star in the sequel to the 2019 Joker, which starred Joaquin Phoenix. There aren’t a lot of details out there yet on the sequel, including if Joaquin will reprise his role, or which character Lady Gaga may play in the story. But early speculation says the sequel — which is also said to be a musical, which is extra weird — will feature the storyline of Harley Quinn, played by Lady Gaga....

In case you hadn’t heard, the forthcoming 2020 live-action version of Mulan will not do what other live-action Disney movies have done recently; specifically, faithfully recreate the cartoon as a movie with real people (or in the case of the upcoming Lion King, with realistic-looking lions.) Instead, Mulan will take the essential plot of the 1998 animated film (which is based on the much older Chinese legend, Hua Mulan) and tell the story in a straightforward, somewhat serious fashion....

“As the boat slowly approached the animal, our crew noticed it was behaving sporadically,” the company shared along with a video on YouTube. “Passengers and crew saw something orange and red colored in the water that they thought might have been kelp. For a minute, many of us thought it may be a shark or predatory event.” Turns out that’s not what they were witnessing. “Instead of the end of life, it was the beginning of a new one!...

Voting begins on March 21 on Fatherly’s Instagram page. Who will become the champion of March Dadness? There’s only one way to find out so head over to our Instagram page to start voting and check out our candidates below to see which dad you want to be rooting for in this heated tournament. Will Homer or one of the other top dogs take the prize or could a bad like Walter White come out on top?...

Now, that date means something very different to Matt. His two siblings survived that shooting, but he lost friends and friends of friends. In the aftermath of the shootings at Stoneman Douglas, where 17 students and faculty members lost their lives, Matt and his younger brother joined a new movement comprised of fellow students. Matt became the Chief Strategist and that movement became March for Our Lives, which culminated in nationwide marches, policy platforms, and media blitzes in order to help change the conversation on gun policy and push for change....

Two years after the hashtag #GiveDivasAChance went viral and propelled the WWE‘s female wrestlers to equal time with their male counterparts, Mattel has turned the new WWE Superstars into a line of Barbie-styled fashion dolls. They’ll be available for pre-order online on Monday and hit store shelves in early September. Forty percent of professional wrestling fans are female, and almost 11 million women and girls tune in weekly. And while Mattel already makes action figures in the likeness of popular female wrestlers, there’s still a decided lack of merchandise targeted to girls growing up Charlotte Flair fans....

So what can your 3-to-6-year-old expect when they walk into the dealership (which is the only place it’s being sold) to test drive the Ride On McLaren P1 Roadster? The short answer: a single-seat convertible in Volcano Yellow with an electric drivetrain, three-speed transmission plus reverse, and dihedral butterfly doors guaranteed to impress everyone in first grade. It also comes tricked out with working lights, ‘air conditioning,’ a functional speedometer, push-button ignition, and a sound system loaded with all their favorite nursery rhymes....

Given that cutting down on alcohol is overall great for your health, this decrease in drinking is certainly good news. But (you knew the “but” was coming) even in the face of the decline, men felt worse about their drinking — and counterintuitively, self-reported problem drinking was found to be on the rise. “This finding was a little bit unexpected because men were reporting that they were drinking less on average over time, yet their perception of the problems they were having due to alcohol use was increasing at the same time,” says Joan Tucker, Ph....

Meredith Alston is a mom to three kids and she recently called out Target for selling kid’s clothes that are vastly different in functionality and durability in gendered clothing. In one video, which has reached more than 3.5 million views, Meredith shows the clothing she bought for her three kids. In the video – which has since been turned into an ongoing series – the mom points out the major differences between like-clothing for her kids....

Does this mean that today’s children will grow to be, as Richard Branson has suggested, shocked that their parent tolerated the presence of slaughterhouses in the industrial food chain? Perhaps. Most vegans and vegetarians in America are under 50 and food industry experts have long suggested that Millennials, who constitute the bulk of new parents, and members of Generation Z are early food adopters. But with the average American still consuming some 222....