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The service is available starting Wednesday and will be called NickSplat. Nicksplat is coming courtesy of a partnership between VRV, a fandom based content streaming service, and Nickelodeon. If the name—and it’s obvious allusion to the era where Nickelodeon was synonymous with slime—doesn’t quite give it away, the focus of the new service will be housing many of the networks older 90’s properties. Shows like All That, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, CatDog, Kenan & Kel, The Wild Thornberrys, and Legends of the Hidden Temple are all slated to become available on NickSplat....

It can feel near impossible for parents to carve out quality alone time or to have an intimate conversation that doesn’t revolve around kids. And one difficult irony of the coronavirus pandemic and resulting quarantine is that despite the extreme togetherness it requires of couples and families, it’s as hard as ever to carve out those periods of connection and intimacy. One thing that helps? Structure and the introduction of new positive habits and rituals....

It’s a repugnant example to set for children, and parents would be smart to use it as an example of how not to lose. Any preschool playground will prove that many kids are hardwired for competition. But the games kids engage in also prove that they’re not, to put it lightly, the most gracious losers. No matter how arbitrary the loss, naturally competitive children tend to not take it well....

The watch itself couldn’t be simpler: It comes pre-loaded with 600 icons that represent daily activities — from “Wake Up” to “Brush Your Teeth,” to “Feed the Fish.” Parents can program their kid’s schedule via the app for iOS and Android, so when it’s time to “Eat Breakfast,” the cereal-bowl icon lights up to let them know. (There doesn’t appear to be anything “Get Dad A Beer,” however.) The Octopus Watch has a vibrating alert, so even if your 3rd grader ignores the flashing light, he has no excuses for forgetting to pick up the dry cleaning....

According to the Hollywood Reporter; Netflix — which signed an overarching deal with the Dahl’s estate in 2018 — has given the director behind Thor: Ragnarok and JoJo Rabbit a golden ticket to create a pair of animated series stemming from the 1964 children’s book about greedy, candy-crazed kids being tortured by the mad proprietor of a bizarre sweets factory (if I recall the plot correctly). One of the series will be directly drawn from “the world and characters” of Dahl’s novel, while the other will delve into the world of the Oompa-Loompas, the diminutive denizens of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory who were always ready with a song when one of the children on a factory tour met a grisly fate....

When the election officer (finally) handed me the sticker, I immediately stuck it on to my ball cap and strutted out of the town hall with my head held high. I stopped to get a cup of coffee proudly sporting my sticker, proof that I give a shit about things. And when I observed other people sporting their new accessories, I gave them a sharp nod. They reciprocated as though to say, “What’s up, fellow voter....

What Onions Need to Be Thrown Out? The onions in question are from ProSource Produce Inc. from Hailey, Idaho, per Food Safety News. The onions were imported from Chihuahua, Mexico, between July 1, 2021, and August 27, 2021. Even though the last import of these Salmonella-infected onions was almost two months ago, onions can stay good for several months, so it’s imperative to throw them out even if you just bought them as they could have been in storage or on shelves for quite some time....

It’s important to point out that the details of the trustees’ report are not as dire as they seem. The Social Security program is expected to pay 100 percent of benefits only up to 2034, when that amount would be reduced to 77 percent of currently scheduled benefits. On the other hand, money for Medicare Part A will run out in 2026, reducing scheduled payments to 90 percent. Which means that people will still receive benefits, just not all of their benefits....

One commenter criticized parents like the essay’s author for having “turned their family’s daily dramas into content.” Another said the woman’s essay surfaces a “nagging – and loaded – question among parents in the age of Instagram. … Are our present social media posts going to mortify our kids in the future?” These questions are valid, and I’ve published research about the need for parents to steward their children’s privacy online....

According to WHYY, Philadelphia will begin giving up to 60 people in the city $500 each month for a year by March of 2022. The people chosen to participate in the pilot program will be selected from a pool of 1100 people who received federal support in the past five years from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). A total of $322,000 from TANF funds has been set aside to cover the cost of the program....

The movie Soul stars the voices of Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Phylicia Rashad, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Angela Bassett, and Daveed Diggs. It also features new jazz music by Jon Batiste and a score composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The animated movie tells the story of a middle-grade jazz band teacher named Joe (Foxx) who dreams of playing in a specific jazz club, is, instead, whisked away to an otherworldly dimension comprised just of people’s souls....

“Okay, hold on buddy,” I hollered, urgency sending my voice an octave higher. Please, please, please don’t crap in the bathtub, I muttered, wrestling Bennett, my one-year-old son, into his pajamas in the adjacent room. Bolting through the door, I reassured Will but a grimace spread across his face. His eyebrows furrowed and he sounded like Paul Revere for a moment: “Quick, Dad! The poop is coming!” I snatched him from the tub and ferried him to the toilet, water puddling on the floor....

Omar’s presence has caused quite the stir in City Hall. Some say Elorza only gets away with it because he’s a father, not a mother. Others say it’s a political stunt. But Elorza says that when he became a dad, he realized how hard it is to find affordable child care that works for working parents and needed to bring Omar because it made financial sense. To hear more from Mayor Elorza, Fatherly spoke to him about his news-making arrangement with Omar, the criticism he’s received, and how he’s trying to make Providence a little bit easier to be a working parent....

Go ahead and call that a preposterous claim. I will assume you have not raised either a baby or a puppy in recent memory. I mean, I get why the myth that babies are harder to raise than puppies might persist. Babies, after all, are demonstrably more helpless than puppies. Seems like that should be harder, doesn’t it? It’s not. Sure, left to its own devices, a puppy would likely figure out how to scrounge in the world and thrive off scraps as a stray dog....

We’ve all felt that intense, cloying sense of dread when stepping on the scale. They’re generally the square, bulky things you willfully sidestep when you walk in to take a leak. Enter the Qardio’s QardioBase2. It makes getting into shape … intriguing. It’s a WiFi- or Bluetooth-connected circular scale that hooks up with the corresponding app and works on any surface, and it’s designed to be your kinder and gentler weight loss and fitness coach....

Don’t call it Black Mirror for kids; it’s probably going to be at least slightly smarter than Black Mirror. Last year, Stine told Fatherly that he thought Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was “boring.” So the gauntlet has been thrown down by the master of horror for kids, and now, its’ time to see if he’s right. The new Disney+ show will adapt the Just Beyond series from BOOM! Comics, but what that means isn’t entirely clear....

“Autism now is not something rare,” study coauthor Wei Bao, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, told Health Day. Previous research backs up Bao’s assessment that present-day autism rates are surprisingly high, but whether or not they’ve spiked remains a matter of debate. Though estimates confirm that the prevalence of autism has more than doubled since 2000, skeptics argue that this is mostly because the criteria for diagnosing the condition has expanded and doctors have gotten better at diagnosing it....

Coco tells the story of a young Mexican boy named Miguel who dreams of dazzling the world with his guitar, much like his hero Ernesto de la Cruz, the most famous musician in Mexican history. The only hiccup? His grandmother and the rest of his shoemaking family have strictly forbidden music of any kind thanks to Miguel’s great-great grandfather running out on his wife and daughter to pursue his dream of being a world-famous musician....

Caan’s tweets follow a simple, wildly effective formula. A picture from Caan’s extraordinary life and career will be briefly described/summarized (or not!) before the words “End of tweet.” Sometimes “End of tweet” are the only words accompanying an image, which means, technically speaking, that the words “End of tweet” is the end of the tweet, the beginning of the tweet, AND the entirety of the tweet. The adorable thing about Caan’s Twitter game is that you do not, of course, have to officially end tweets....

According to The Cut, the Royal Parks released guidelines to explicitly note what items people are permitted to bring to the floral-tribute sites at The Green Park and Hyde Park. The guidelines also clearly state a very specific request for what not to leave: “non-floral objects/artefacts such as teddy bears or balloons.” The official guidelines didn’t address the loveable, fuzzy, three-foot-tall bear by name, but essentially, they’re telling people to stop filling the Royal Parks with Paddington Bear stuffies and marmalade sandwiches....