I have the regular “New Dad” fears: My son will get sick, or I’ll drop him, or I’ll drop my sick son into the waiting open jaws of a snake. (Guys. It could happen.) But I have one fear that consistently haunts me most nights as I stare at the baby monitor waiting for him to wake up. I’m afraid my son will be like me. More specifically, I’m afraid he’ll feel about himself the way I feel about myself....
Great job, dad. Welcome to the holidays as a new father. We are already in the thick of “the season.” Americans now celebrate from Nov 25th till January 2nd, a nog and turkey-fueled mega holiday I will loving portmanteau into THANKSCHRIST. This time of year is stressful: travel, getting gifts, end of the year regrets, being visited by various ghosts regarding the chains I’ve formed in life, etc etc. And now I’ve thrown a baby on top of that....
“Developmentally it’s amazing how ripe that time is for change,” explains Robert Zetlin, a positive psychologist and author of Laugh More, Yell Less: A Guide to Raising Kick-Ass Kids. “From a parent’s perspective, around 4 or 5-years-old it’s a balancing act between providing the child support and holding expectations high enough to reach for but not so high they are set up for failure.” How to Help a Preschooler Become More Emotionally Mature Speak with preschool teachers to identify the issues and develop a plan of attack shared between the school and home....
The catch? You get what you pay for, and Parachute’s sales come only two times a year. This weekend’s Memorial Day Sale is one of them, and everything — everything — is 20 percent off. Whether you’re in need of a baby gift, looking to upgrade your bed or nursery because we’re all sick of our homes, or you just need something that feels nice and brings some joy right now, Parachute has something for you....
In an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip, Lightyear director Angus MacLane reveals how a trip to the archives of Lucasfilm allowed the design of Star Wars to directly inform this new sci-fi Pixar adventure. Essentially, back in 1976, when the model-makers from Industrial Light and Magic were creating the various starships for the first Star Wars, they added a plethora of surface details to the ships, colloquially known as “greeble.” And, a good deal of that texture was accomplished because the VFX of the 1970s relied on actual physical models....
Climate change is a defining issue of our time. During a recent conversation, Crist told us her essay (which is becoming a book that will be published in the U.S. by Random House and in the UK by Chatto & Windus) found its genesis in the conversations she had while considering starting her own family. “I couldn’t not think about climate and the environment and the impact of adding another human....
According to Sherri Williams, a marriage and family therapist based in Pittsburgh, the way to cope with fights is to figure out if you’re a turtle or a bear. Bear with us. Turtles, she says, tend to process internally and need time to figure out things and gather their thoughts. Bears, however, are external processors and let everything out. The question then becomes how can the naturally passive battle it out with the more conflict-centric?...
It’s hard to know without Fred Rogers around to tell us. For decades, Fred Rogers ambled onto his set at WQED Studios, changed into a pair of Sperry Topsiders, zipped up his sweater and offered directions to a moral true north. How did he do it? The answer is incredibly complicated but also astonishingly simple. He considered it. He thought about his role in the world and his privileges and his responsibilities and his failures and his feelings....
While many platitudes were delivered on behalf of service workers for their bravery — who account for some 23 million workers across the United States, many millions of whom are also moms and dads — the truth is that frontline service workers are getting the short end of the stick from minuscule paychecks to lack of workplace safety to lack of consistent scheduling, and by default, so are their kids....
Users capture a scan of their face via its mobile app, Hasbro Pulse, then have further ability to customize their character’s features and hairstyle. At some point following, the likeness, shrunken to a collector-grade six-inch toy, arrives on your doorstep. Upon release, users will be able to place their visages on Star Wars, Ghostbusters, G.I. Joe, Power Rangers, and Marvel characters, but it’s safe to assume that more will be made available for customization....
Some CEOs have suggested that it will be hard to find some of the season’s most popular toys — and to focus on small stuffed and soft gifts rather than massive LEGO sets or big plastic toys. Others have said that it’s best to get your Christmas shopping done, like, yesterday, to avoid the holiday USPS and supply chain crunch. But Hasbro offered up a message of reassurance this week, with the toy company saying it feels confident that it will be able to handle the uptick in deliveries and demand that comes around Christmas time....
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The popular YouTube channel Food Theorists addressed the question of whether or not people in the Pokéworld eat the likes of Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur and said that there is pretty much definitive proof that people do, in fact, chow down on Pokémon. Farfetch’d was so delicious that the species nearly went instinct due to hunters wanting their version of foie gras, along with Slowpoke’s tail apparently being considered a delicacy....
Vaccination numbers are rising, the unemployment rate is falling, and President Biden himself hasn’t gotten behind the idea, despite Congressional support, so a fourth check doesn’t seem all that likely. Still, it does not appear that we are on our way back to a pre-pandemic governing consensus, with major spending packages on the wy. The experience of the pandemic—and the revelation that the government can just print money and give it to people—has changed a lot....
By the time Desmond was two or three, it was clear to his parents that he was likely gay. They had been testing him, exposing him to different things. What did he like? The Sissy Duckling, a 1999 animated film about a duckling that doesn’t quite fit in. He named one of his two fish after him. RuPaul’s Drag Race. Pride parades. Musicals. It wasn’t that he was indifferent to sports, but that he saw them as a distraction from fashion and performance....
The Le pause French sleep training method differs from extinction sleep training (cry it out) in the sense that the latter involves blatantly ignoring the child’s cries after they have been put to bed until they eventually fall asleep. French parents don’t race into the baby’s room at the sound of every grunt and whine during the night, according to Druckerman. (But they don’t engage in cry-it-out sleep training either....
The paid family leave plan is a big part of Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package which, while hardly etched in stone, appears likely to pass through the Democratic-controlled houses of Congress mostly in its original form. It remains to be seen whether or not paid leave will be a part of that plan due to budget reconciliation issues. Paid family and medical leave are among the less controversial aspects of Biden’s plan, and it follows a similar (if less expansive effort) that passed Congress last year, otherwise known as the FFCRA....
I’d been a single dad for just over two years and thought I had things well in hand when my incredibly cute, 11-year-old blonde, blue-eyed daughter, Mary, calmly sat down on the coffee table opposite me one beautiful Saturday evening and announced… “Dad, I need a bra!” I was grateful that my teeth were firmly connected to my mouth: As my jaw dropped, a loose-fitting set of dentures would have left my gaping mouth and crashed to the floor....
“Sitting there and noticing the accident, I bent down to see what the f–k happened, I realized the little nutter has got stuck,” Jørstad told The Daily Mail, which originally reported the incident. The British tabloid also roughly translated his initial post, where the married father of 3 uses nautical metaphors to describe his “skipper” and “sailors” — so, that makes Ikea pirates? Nonetheless, the company stuck with the theme when they responded, telling him to remove the stool from the shower or “make sure you are well dressed for your next sea excursion....
