RELATED: Baby Bath Toys for Toddlers Under $10 The Beginning Rubber ducks have been around for about 65 million years. The modern rubber one is a little newer. Basically, it started with “vulcanized rubber”, the stuff that you drive on (and makes time travel possible). In 1844, Charles Goodyear mixed it with chemicals and polymers to make it more durable and patented the process. After that, commercial use of rubber skyrocketed....
In typical years, Labor Day weekend is spent with families and friends, which requires some travel. However, this isn’t a typical year, and the CDC is asking Americans to keep that in mind. “First and foremost, if you are unvaccinated, we would recommend not traveling,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said when asked about travel for the holiday weekend at a White House press briefing Tuesday discussing the surge of COVID-19 cases and the spread of the Delta variant....
You think you want that sweet, Mario Batali summer home-style built-in oven, but you don’t. Unless you have the square footage and a few patient sous chefs, those things are a pain in the ass to set up. First, you need to chop the tree. Then split the logs. Toss them in. Light the fire. Wait for it to get to temperature. The Uuni 2S does away with all that by using compressed wood pellets....
Teacher Emma Ginder posted a video of the hilarious moment on Facebook, which has since garnered 46K shares on the platform, and has also gone viral on Twitter. In the nearly 1-minute-and-30-seconds-long clip, you can see Ginder instructing her class to open their books and then a few seconds later, she plays a fart sound. Everyone erupts in laughter, including Ginder herself. She captioned the video on Facebook, “Some days you just have to play a toot sound during class to lighten the mood....
You can get a taste of the behind-the-scenes look you’ll be getting in Clerk. with an exclusive clip where Smith discusses his “favorite moment I’ve put on film” over his prolific career as a director, actor, and screenwriter. The moment comes in Clerks II when Randall confesses to Dante that his dream is to buy the Quick Stop (which burned down) and reopen it with his best friend. Smith explains that in “one magic moment” Randall “shows you his fucking heart” and that “changes everything....
The pandemic is scary for kids. Having to get a needle is scary for kids, too. But Sesame Street believes that taking some of that fear away can be done by showing kids the process. And to do this, they’ve enlisted the help of Big Bird and his grandma who talk about the available vaccination and its importance. “The goal is to encourage parents of kids 5+ throughout the country to get the facts/info they need to make an informed decision for themselves and their families,” the company said in a press release about the latest PSA, an initiative between Sesame Workshop and WarnerMedia....
Garner’s tour de force, 13 Going on 30 is currently streaming on HBO Max, but it’ll flit away like so much wishing dust on February 28. We’re here to convince you to watch it again before it leaves. And so, here are just a few reasons to stream this timeless early 2000s rom-com right now. Jennifer Garner Back when 13 Going on 30 opened in 2004, Garner was wowing audiences week after week with her performance as superspy Sydney Bristow on Alias....
The science and impact of climate change is well-documented. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather, poor air quality, and rising temperatures. For example, in a study cited in David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth, soldiers returning from war are estimated to suffer PTSD at a rate between 11 and 31%. Thirty-two weeks after Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992, more than half of children surveyed had moderate PTSD....
The annual Modern Wealth Survey from Charles Schwab was released recently and it highlighted that the numbers associated with being wealthy have been shifting downward. The report surveyed 1,000 people in the U.S who ranged in ages from 21 to 75 years old. The survey was done in February 2022, and it asked participants a variety of questions related to their personal finances. One of the more interesting takeaways from the survey is that the average net worth needed for someone to be considered wealthy is up from last year, but our definitions of wealth have changed amid the pandemic....
“Infants can be thought of as similar to scientists who are fascinated by their subject matter,” says Forrest Talley, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in California. “The more they study, the more knowledge they acquire. Eventually, this knowledge base allows them to expertly interact with and at least partially control the interpersonal world into which they were born.” There’s ample evidence that babies are naturally fixated on faces. In one study, researchers showed newborns an image of a face or an image of a scrambled face....
For years, many prominent researchers contended that divorce was passed from generation to generation as though it was a family heirloom or freckles. Until her 2012 death, psychologist Judith Wallerstein, aka “the godmother of the backlash against divorce,” contended that divorce exacts a psychological toll on children, including “sleeper effects” that doom adult relationships. Respected sociologists, including the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Paul Amato, devoted papers to what they termed the “intergenerational transmission of divorce” and “the divorce cycle....
Once, when I was six, I did paint Memorial Coliseum on butcher paper and hung it like a banner in our garage, where our family had a basketball hoop, and where I won many a last-second game for the Portland Trailblazers. Only, I spelled the team’s home arena, “Memral Colsum,” and my brother Tom, ten years older than me, howled at my spelling and made fun of me, theatrically mispronouncing the name over and over....
Jacob Paulsen is one of those people. He’s the president and founder of ConcealedCarry.com. He’s also spent the last 12 years teaching more than 10,000 students, adults and minors, gun safety and firearm classes. Paulsen is also a Boy Scout Troop leader and a Merit Badge counselor in a myriad of gun safety and firing discipline merit badges. Beyond his work face-to-face with kids, he also manages a network of 60 firearm instructors across the country and helps them plan lessons and run their businesses....
I’d raise awareness for Autism. “I would use my superpowers to raise greater awareness for not just my son but all children on the Autism spectrum. I can’t even begin to tell you how many altercations I’ve had with people that judged me as a parent or my family based on something they often knew nothing about or that sadly we couldn’t control. I could use my powers to encourage everyone to give back to their community by focusing on one area they are truly passionate about....
When Can Kids Physically Start Reading? Reading is not only a mental practice, it’s a physical one, too. Anyone who’s had “tired eyes” after a good book session can speak to that. So parents would do well to keep in mind a child’s ability to move and coordinate their eyes for successful reading. “Prior to 7-and-a-half years old for girls and 8 years old for boys, the brain hasn’t fully developed control over the muscles necessary for reading,” explains Dr....
What makes the Keaton/Burton movie so special is partially connected to the time it was made, insofar as it could never be made today. These days, we think of the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale movies as being “dark,” but when Batman came out in 1989 it was way darker and stranger than anything moviegoers had seen in the superhero genre. To put it another way, as great as The Dark Knight was in 2008, it’s not like that movie took a ton of risks, from a creative standpoint....
But could what you’re actually jealous of here be the fact that your wife gets more hands-on time with your baby than you do? Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan is a professor of psychology at The Ohio State University and says that it’s possible. Her research looking at father-child relationships suggests that “maternal gatekeeping” could explain why dads in heterosexual relationships often end up envying their kids or their wives or both. And it comes down to biology....
The results of this disinvestment is an erosion of public life, Eric Klinenberg, a Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, as well as the author of several books, including most recently, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization and the Decline of Civic Life. In it, Klinenberg makes the case for the importance of social infrastructure and the good that it does for communities across the country as well as why we disinvested from it in the first place....
All couples come to share fart scent profiles when they are sharing meals. “Food is a major driver of the microbiome because families eat together and have many shared eating patterns, therefore this increases microbes shared,” explains Dr. Terry Wahls, a physician who studies gut health. But family dinner does not, in and of itself, explain the similarities in gut bacteria that affect fart smell. Consistent touching and cohabitation can effect microbiomes....
“UTIs for men and for women are completely different, mainly due to the fact that the urethra in men are way longer than in women,” Dr. David Shusterman, urologist and founder of NY Urology told Fatherly. “Bacteria has a much longer path to get to the prostate and bladder while a woman’s UTI is different, since the urethra is shorter.” As a result, more than half of women will have UTI at some point in their lifetime....
