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An emerging understanding of happiness, led by the field of positive psychology, may offer a path lined with actionable insights. You might have to rethink material comforts, revisit character values, and really pay attention to a kid’s strengths. It’s not easy, but it’s the best way to avoid being the parent of a child who “has it all” and yet no happiness to show for it. How To Raise Happy Children Step #1: Wade Past The Short-Term Goals A parent who thinks that happiness can be bought with stuff quickly loses control of the situation....

Here’s how it all started. Azalea, 29-year-old Australian rapper, announced she’ll be dropping her album, In My Defense, on July 19. But apparently, Azalea has some competition; beloved British cartoon Peppa Pig released that she, too, will be dropping an album on July 19th. “Peppa Pig My First Album is available to stream this Friday!” Peppa’s Twitter announcement reads. “Are your little ones excited? You an already listen to Bing Bong Zoo NOW!...

Of the 11 million or 18 percent, of parents who are staying at home, the share of them that are fathers has increased from four percent in 1989 to about seven percent now. Surprisingly, given the number of women and moms who have entered the workforce in recent decades, the share of moms who are staying at home hasn’t changed very much. In fact, it dropped just one point from 28 percent in 1989 to 27 percent in 2016....

In the midst of yesterday’s violent, far-right coup attempt meant to disrupt the democratic electoral process, at least one image emerged that offered up a glimmer of hope: the female Senate aides who saved the historic ballot boxes from almost inevitable destruction. As the mob breached the Capitol, several quick-thinking aides grabbed the boxes and brought them to a safe location, potentially saving the boxes — and most crucially the Electoral College ballots inside — from being destroyed, which could have further delayed the certification of the Electoral College votes....

There are those who argue that the police can be trusted always to act in the public interest, protecting and serving the innocent. Surely many do, but research into the private lives of cops suggests that that faith in the restraint of police officers on the job is founded at least in part on men who abuse their wives and children. And what percent of cops are domestic abusers is conspicuously quite high....

There is something wholesome and heartwarming about turning on a Christmas movie that just makes this time of year feel better. These movies always have the right amount of drama or conflict to keep us interested, but they always wrap up in a perfect bow. While we can likely all agree that Christmas movies during this time of year are a great way to spend our time, deciding which movie to watch is a little more challenging to answer....

Now, in our home we don’t place much if any emphasis on test scores and grades. Neither of our parents did for us, and we figure we turned out fine. There’s a bit of oversimplification with our stories, but essentially, we found our way not by comparing ourselves to others, but by challenging ourselves to become our best. We do acknowledge, though, that for us, doing well in school opened doors and provided us with options, options that led to college, graduate school, and careers that have been fulfilling and lucrative....

Tara (not her real name), a bartender at what might be described as a defiantly casual hangout says that coked up parents are now just part of the scene. Laughing, she says that they’re not actually very good at doing drugs. But this isn’t holding them back. “The parents doing cocaine in Park Slope don’t give a shit,” she says. “They’re passing vials and going to the bathroom together and doing obvious things that most people doing cocaine in bars know not to do....

A pastor himself, Lee IV was on hand to support the removal of the statue of his great-great-great-great-uncle, and he explained why in an op-ed for the Washington Post. After explaining the pervasiveness of the insistence that the Civil War was fought for states’ rights, he explained its perversity. “The catch is that there’s more to that sentence, something we southerners are never taught: The Civil War was fought for states’ rights to enslave African people in the United States of America....

Matt Reeves and company are shooting in Scotland this week, and their schedule includes some scenes at the Glasgow Necropolis cemetery. It was there that the first full-body images of the new Bat-Suit and Bat-Cycle were captured to be shared with the world, though it does appear to be a stuntman and not Pattinson himself in the famous costume. And that’s a good thing, as footage posted to Twitter shows Batman speeding down a slick road in the cemetery in a city where it rains 167 days a year....

Star Trek, will be much better than the world we live in today. In the rosy Trek future, Earth will become an equal rights paradise. Eventually. Although the Trek franchise is often labeled as utopian prediction, the flawed human beings who live in that fictional Final Frontier had to go through a very rocky 21st Century before they got to the more enlightened time of Kirk and Spock in the 23rd or the even cozier 24th century of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, and Kathryn Janeway....

Figure Out Who You Want To Become There is plenty of room for spontaneity in the bedroom, but when it comes to role-playing, you might want to have some kind of blueprint in place. Jumping into any kind of role-play scenario is going to be a whole lot easier if you already have a specific fantasy in mind. Plus, it gives you more time to prepare. Maybe you want to pick up some sexy lingerie or other accessories that will help you bring your fantasy to life....

It is true that adult novelty items are gaining steam. However, just because a subject loses its taboo doesn’t mean we become any better informed. Americans, it seems, are a hugely undereducated demographic when it comes to sex, especially the kinky variety, and by extension, the best sex toys for couples and individuals. We reached out to the experts in order to help fill this particular knowledge gap. Because the more we know, the better we play....

“Toxic masculinity focuses on anti-women and anti-feminine attitudes, along with zero-sum thinking,” study coauthor Michael Parent, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, told Fatherly. “That kind of mindset was indeed associated with more negative social media use, and higher levels of depression.” Social media use and depression have been linked in the past, but the research has only looked at the amount of use, rather than what people are actually doing online....

On Monday, Illinois became the first state to take advantage of a provision in the recently passed COVID-19 relief law that gives states the option to extend eligibility to a full year after birth, 46 weeks longer than the status quo currently allows. Why does the Medicaid expansion matter? As The 19th points out, those 46 weeks make a huge difference. Most moms don’t go to their first postpartum checkup until six weeks after giving birth....

At 2 million, the number of stay-at-home dads in 2012 was nearly double what it was in 1989, thanks only in tiny part to that reality show. In fact, it was the Great Recession that helped that number reach its highest point, 2.2 million in 2010, according to a recent Pew study. READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Stay-At-Home Parenting Many of those dads have since bolted back to outside-the-home work environments as unemployment has decreased; 23 percent of those surveyed said they were only home because they couldn’t find work....

Is there another $1,400 stimulus, and who qualifies? While the Child Tax Credit is all but done at the end of this month, some parents are going to receive an additional check in 2022. Unfortunately, it’s not available to everyone, but for parents who welcomed a new baby into the world, or someone who has a new dependent. This is the final $1,400 stimulus for if you had a baby in 2021 — and it means that there will be more money next year....

For several years, the most omnipresent ad slogan for car-maker Subaru has been “Love. It’s what makes a Subaru, a Subaru.” But the times they are a-changing, and the Japanese car company is making it clear that when they said love they also meant making love, as in f**king. The evidence: the newest offering from Subaru is a special car called the Subaru Forester Fucks. Seriously. At last week’s Singapore Motorshow, Subaru unveiled a compact version of the popular family car, the Subaru Forester, but this one is called: The Forester Ultimate Customized Kit Special edition....

Just when you thought you had done everything you possibly could to ensure your kid grows up a vinyl-obsessed audiophile with identical musical taste to yours and a wing reserved in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, it hits you: Like all those hip musicians you can’t stand, your kid doesn’t play a damn musical instrument. No need to worry, Loog Guitar has come to the rescue. Loog’s beginner basswood guitars have a slim three-string maple neck made for tiny hands....

But they whine. Boy, do they whine. And the main time they do so is on hikes, a pastime they actually enjoy. It just comes out of them because people can whine when they’re exerting themselves, which happens often when you walk in the woods. Not only do my kids whine, but they bicker and get stuck in negative feedback loops (”I’m no good at this”; “She doesn’t talk to me so I don’t talk to her”), all of which distracts from the main reason of getting out into the woods in the first place: the serenity of it all....