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Always Remember to Stay Curious Growth (as a couple or an individual) requires risk. And risk requires curiosity. Being curious together can result in tremendous learning experiences that will strengthen your relationship. “In difficult or challenging situations, you can both learn from what makes those situations hard for you,” says Janet Zinn, a New York-based LCSW, and Couples Therapist. “And you’ll grow in the process. In this way you will both have pride for yourselves and each other in the ways you got to the other side....

Enter MasterClass. Yeah, you heard me. MasterClass. You’ve seen the slightly pretentious ads on Instagram where David Lynch or Samuel L. Jackson randomly appear and you’re told they are going to teach you about something. This seems like a scam, but you know what? It’s actually awesome. My wife was gifted MasterClass by a friend of hers as an early Mother’s Day present, and she’s thrilled. I’m devastated because I wish I’d thought of this....

We have to be honest: lifting weights has nothing on the kind of stamina and strength it takes to maneuver a freshly baked infant around town in their car seat and carrier. Car seat and carrier designs appear to seamlessly work together. If you’ve ever wrangled an infant, a purse and a bag of groceries, you know reality is often a little…different. But with the new Coral™️ XP from Maxi-Cosi, parents are in for a convenient safety treat....

What Are the Carseats Being Recalled For? According to a press release from DJ USA, the Dorel Juvenile Group is “fully cooperating with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)” in recalling “certain Pria 85 and Pria 85 Max car seats” that were designed for children weighing between 14 and 85 pounds. While the statement says that “there have been no injuries or incidents reported,” children weighing 65 pounds or more could be at risk of a head injury in the case of a crash when the seat is installed in the forward-facing position....

Trainor is no stranger to animated family programming, as she counts among her credits the films Smurfs: The Lost Village and Playmobil: The Movie, as well as an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. Among the children sure to listen one day to Trainor in Blue’s Clues & You! and her other animated outings is Riley Sabara, her son with Spy Kids trilogy co-star Daryl Sabara. The couple, who got married in 2018, welcomed Riley into the world on February 8, 2021....

In a new interview with PEOPLE, Kunis touched on several topics, including the war in Ukraine, where Kunis was born, and raising $37 million to go toward people displaced by the war. Kunis also spoke about how she and Kutcher talk to their kids about difficult world events. “[Our daughter] Wyatt is 8, and [our son] Dimitri is almost 6. Children’s brains, as beautiful and rich as they are, aren’t capable of digesting this amount of information all at once,” she explained....

Rodsky had a successful career in mediation and a husband who she trusted to be her partner in everything — in chores, in work, in family management. But the blueberry text threw her for a loop. A few days after the exchange, while out with friends, she realized all of them received similar messages from their husbands ranging from “Where is Alex’s soccer bag?” to “What’s the address of the birthday party?...

Per the government and most housing data, a “crowded” home is a household in which there is more than one person per bedroom. Four million American homes are “crowded” according to these metrics. One study by Johns Hopkins University which analyzed about 1,500 US counties with at least 50 confirmed cases found that 10 percent of the counties with the highest rates of crowding within households counted for at least 28 percent of the covid cases....

We have six kids. Two are mine from a previous marriage, and I have a step daughter. The other three are adopted. We adopted one, Nigel, as a baby. We hadn’t intended to adopt a baby, but adoption is complicated. We thought we were going to adopt a two or four year old. But in the adoption system, you have a social worker, and the baby has a social worker, and the mother, or the parents who are giving up the baby, have a social worker....

This weekend at Power-Con in Anaheim, it was officially announced that Kevin Smith would be the showrunner for a new He-Man cartoon titled Masters of the Universe: Revelation. The series will air on Netflix but while you may be thinking the new series will be a reboot of the classic cartoon, Smith says that Revelation will actually focus on “unresolved storylines of the classic ’80s era.” “There’s no reason to break this in order to present it to people, it’s wonderful the way it is,” Smith said during an interview with Pixel Dan....

In a Facebook post shared later that night, mom Lisa Simek describes what happened: “She told them Santa isn’t real and parents just buy presents and put them under their tree. She told them reindeer can’t fly and elves are not real – elf on the shelf is just a pretend doll that your parents move around.” Simek went on to say, “She told them magic does not exist. There is no such thing as magic anything....

cars are the most popular in each country? Do you want to know where most drivers are somehow sporting a Tesla above any other car? Well, thanks to these new maps created by Budget Direct, car lovers can see the makes and models most popular around the world on a country-by-country basis. And there are a few surprises in these findings, but they mostly reinforce what many probably would have already guessed: for one, that Toyota cars are extremely popular nearly everywhere, and that Americans love Ford....

While the news is great for our parents, it does less for us, Gen X-er workaholics who just want to lay down after a particularly heavy lunch. Indeed, we’d give anything to have a chance to justify the post-lunch nap, after a heavy lunch and a night of not getting enough sleep, a brief period of catching up on those elusive ZZZs is often the salve that many people need to get re-energized for the rest of the day....

A new survey from the Insured Retirement Institute spoke with 990 Americans between the ages of 40 and 73 in March and found that across generations, people simply do not have sufficient retirement income. More than half of those surveyed have less than $50,000 in savings for retirement, and that amount is unlikely to go up anytime soon for most of them. Almost 60 percent of workers are putting less than 10 percent of their income into retirement savings, while about a third aren’t even setting aside five percent....

President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) more than a year ago. But now is the first time taxpayers have to figure out how the new rules will affect their return. For most people, the net effect will be a little more cash in your pocket this year – about $900 for the typical middle-income earner, according to the Tax Policy Center. The changes to the IRS code are pretty extensive, but here’s a look at some of the biggest....

While Microsoft and Sony engage in an endless arms race to have the fastest console with the best graphics, Nintendo seems more interested in innovating how people interact with their games. A boundary-blurring hybrid of a TV and portable console, the Switch comes with detachable, bifurcated controllers, crazy fold-it-yourself cardboard attachments, and, of course, plenty of other controllers and accessories. The brand-new Nintendo Switch Lite has the same mission as its progenitor—to give people more ways to enjoy video games—but it goes about it in a different way....

Should Senate Bill 70, proposed by California Democratic Senator Susan Rubio, pass, it would take effect in the 2024-2025 school year. The proposed bill specifies that early childhood programs like preschool or transitional kindergarten for 4-year-olds and under won’t count toward the full year of kindergarten requirement. However, the law does state that parents can choose to send their kids to public or private kindergarten. “As a public school teacher for 17 years, I have witnessed the detrimental impact on young students who miss out on fundamental early education,” Rubio said, according to ABC News....

So, who is the enemy? Before I had my first child, I was type A, a tiny bit OCD, and anxious to get every detail of work and home projects covered. It was probably for the best that I had a baby in my forties. I had learned to chill out some. But, on the other hand, the birth followed two decades during which I had the luxury of time....

1. Prioritize One-on-One Time When your older child is used to having to all to themselves, having a sibling can feel disruptive, even provoking feelings of jealousy (which in kid terms can look like acting out). Child and family therapist Fran Walfish, Psy.D, recommends minimizing that jealousy by designating regular one-on-one time with each kid. It doesn’t have to be extensive — even 10 or 15 minutes of reading a book or digging for worms in the backyard will make a difference....

“We didn’t expect to find that, but we believe that there are certainly many changes in the responsibilities you have,” study coauthor Sakari Lemola, a psychology professor at the University of Warwick, told The Guardian. Prior research had indicated that parents lose at least 44 days of sleep during their child’s first year of life. Mothers historically suffered from this more than fathers, but as fathers begin to take on larger parenting roles, data indicates that this is starting to shift....