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The Best DIY Science Experiments for Kids Want to turn your home into a kid-friendly scientific laboratory? You don’t need bubbling beakers and centrifuges to produce cool at-home science experiments for kids. In fact, everything you need to help them feel like a tiny Nikolai Tesla or miniature Marie Curie is likely sitting in your home already. And we’re not just talking about the make-things-fizz genre of experiments. With a few simple ingredients, your kids can make everything from fake snot to invisible ink and actual lightning....

That’s the kind built by architects at the firm Kirksey + Mezger, the team that clinched the Golden Bucket award at the 2016 Sandcastle Building Contest aka the big kahuna of sand sculpting competitions. Unless you have the obsessive personality of an architect, six months to draft plans, and a 40-person team with specialized equipment, you’re not going to make that kind of sand castle. But with their advice, you can create a design far better than the lumpy, lopsided sand-bucket sculptures that dot the shores of family beaches....

Her name is Bluebell. Or maybe Blue Belle. I have never really given much thought how to spell it until just now. She didn’t come with that name, of course. It didn’t have one until years later when my daughter Ella got to the stage of naming things. It’s a blue Toyota Highlander, so the name seemed to fit, even if it wasn’t high on the imagination scale. Ella still names things and the creativity has dialed up over the years....

Here’s why people cheat, according to science: It Doesn’t Mean They’re Unhappy While it is true that some people cheat to escape unhappy relationships, experts are beginning to suspect that this the exception, rather than the rule. Clinical experience suggests that most cheaters are, in fact, trying to escape something else entirely—to embark on a (misguided and hurtful) journey of self-discovery, or a search for some lost identity. “For these seekers, infidelity is less likely to be a symptom of a problem, and more likely an expansive experience that involves growth, exploration, and transformation,” psychotherapist Esther Perel wrote in The Atlantic....

“Fewer than 10 percent of first-grade best friendships survived until the sixth grade,” the authors write. “We found clear support for the hypothesis that negative features of parenting, such as depression and psychological control, increase the risk of dissolution of best friendships.” Childhood friendships seldom last—one study found that only 35 percent of kindergarten friendships in the U.S. make it to the third grade—but they’re still quite important, from a developmental perspective....

You filmed Fire in the Garden over Zoom. When did you shoot it?We recorded it about a month ago. The director turned it around from recording and adding the music and that stuff, and he got it put up on the New Jersey Repertory Company site right after that. They extended it through June.This couldn’t have been a fun piece to make. It’s you, alone, and pretty dark material. What elements of the story, your character, connected with you most?...

RELATED: Apps To Organize The Most Important Data on Your Phone: Family Photos With SeeNote, those paper notes you already rely on to remind you to take out the trash, do the dishes, or put the dishes in the trash (life hacks!) now manage your tasks and keep you up-to-date on real-time info — like business meetings or rush hour traffic — using an ePaper touchscreen. You can also leave notes for other people via email, in case you want to set a reminder from work for someone at home....

And as a part of the ongoing expansion of the “ABCs of Racial Literacy”, the Sesame Workshop released several new resources that will assist parents in teaching their kids about difficult topics surrounding racial justice, including coping with racial trauma and engaging allies to stand up against racism. The new releases include several videos which focus on the impact that racism can have on children. One video titled “Proud of Your Eyes” features a young Filipino American girl named Analyn opening up to Alan and Wes about being teased because of her eyes....

Eventually, though, the spark comes back. Depending on your and your partner’s libido, the friskiness could occur around 6 weeks, which most doctors agree is safe (if a bit unlikely). For others, getting back to business time can take many more months. Whenever that moment comes — your eyes meet over a pile of burp cloths, her hair tousled from sleeplessness, the spit-up stain on your shirt bright in contrast to the dark bags under your eyes — there are some things you’ll both need to consider....

RELATED: The Best BPA-Free Water Bottles, Plates, And Dishes Are Free of BPA, BPS PVC, and All The Other Bad Acronyms Spuni reinvents the geometry of the spoon with a baby’s pie-hole in mind, as opposed to previous generations of infant spoons that were basically just miniaturized versions of adult ones and thus too wide, deep, or both for kids to do anything but spill food all over the kitchen floor....

However, while the latest stimulus checks are coming, they will also come with more punitive income limits, meaning that some people will be receiving less than $1,400 and others won’t be receiving any money at all. Similar to the previous rounds of stimulus checks, the amount of money a person receives will be based on adjusted gross income (AGI) but this particular stimulus package comes with steep drops in payment, meaning that if you earn over a certain income threshold, how much money you receive will drop off sharply....

The big fear of sending children back to school is not the kids’ health. Most young people don’t get very sick with COVID-19, and even fewer die, especially compared to adults. But some will, and that risk is too big for parents who are deciding to keep their kids home. Still, the biggest risk is for the adults the kids interact with — bus drivers, teachers, cafeteria workers, and, of course, parents — who are more likely to get seriously ill and die from COVID-19....

Dear Fatherly, My kids are home for the summer and so is my wife. My son and daughter are in elementary school and my wife is a teacher so she gets summer off, too. They’ve been out of school for a few weeks now, but when I come home from work I usually find my kids playing video games or on their iPad. When I ask them what they did during the day they just shrug....

Although all 50 states allow kids to join their parents at the polling location, there are different rules and restrictions in different states. While all states allow minors to come to the voting place with you, in some states, that definition of what a minor is varies. The election commission in Connecticut defines a minor as someone 15 years or under, while every other state defines a minor as someone 17 or under....

MORE TOYS! Check Out Fatherly’s Picks for the Best Toys of 2019 Here That’s why we created this list of the 100 Best New Toys of 2018. In it you’ll find hetoys across all age groups that our team of Fatherly editors, everyday dads, and enthusiastic kids have deemed innovative, educational, or just really, really fun. (You can jump to toys for Infant+, Ages 3+, Ages 4+, Ages 7+, and Ages 10+) We’re sure both you and your kids will find something on this list to enjoy....

In 2018, Fatherly scoured Twitter for the best jokes. Why? It’s better than doing real work and way better than changing diapers. What follows is a comprehensive roundup of the year’s best dad tweets, mom tweets, and exasperated, sleep-deprived person losing their mind tweets. These mini-missives might not be high art, but at least tweets can remind us that we’re all in this thing together. Here are the funniest 100 parenting tweets of the year....

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Of course, you can prepare formula, with room-temperature water, when it’s time to feed the baby. But if you want to minimize middle-of-the-night tasks, you’ll prepare the formula ahead of time, in which case it will be in the fridge — and really, really cold. And if it’s pumped milk, it will also have separated. So, while a bottle warmer isn’t absolutely necessary, it’s the fastest way to warm up milk that needs warming....

What are they, you might ask? Essentially, open shelving placed at a low height. Montessori shelves allow kids easy access to their toys and books, helping them engage in more independent play (and cleanup). This generally means minimalist shelves that display just a handful of color-coordinated wooden toys. There’s a supposed method to the madness: The thinking goes that if kids only have access to certain toys at certain times, they will be less likely to get sick of their toys and will remain more engaged with them....

“There are no ‘good old days’ in craft distilling — it’s the best it’s ever been right now,” says Joe O’Sullivan, the Master Distiller of Clear Creek Distillery and Hood River Distillers in Oregon that made America’s first Single Malt. “The ability to start with something brand new, with wide open possibilities –– we get to experience that in American Single Malt now.” American Single Malt Whiskey only dates back to the early 1990’s, making it an infant spirit compared to Bourbon, which emerged in the U....