RELATED: The Best Bike Helmets For Kids In fact, the Piggyback Driver may be the perfect toy, albeit a novelty one: Your kid gets to actively engage in a ride around the park while you don’t have to listen to them bark directions like a side-seat driver navigating the alleys of an Italian alpine village. It’s a win-win. (Unless, of course, you actually enjoy talking to your child while playfully hoofing them around....

Enter the GOAT of children’s music, Raffi, and his sometimes collaborator, the excellent Lindsay Munroe. Together, they’ve created the antidote to outdated, and sometimes, downright creepy old nursery rhymes. Using the familiar melodies of fifteen nursery rhymes, these songs are now reimagined to be much, much nicer! Here’s a listing of the newly rebooted nursery rhymes: Three Kind Mice Diddle Diddle Dumpling 3. Sing A Song Of Six Cents 4....

In a recent interview with GQ — which is actually about Tom Holland — Robert Downey Jr. makes it pretty clear that Tony Stark isn’t coming back for WandaVision or Falcon and Winter Soldier and probably not even Loki. After all, despite the epic length of the pandemic, it hasn’t even been two years since Tony said: “I am Iron Man” and saved the entire universe by sacrificing himself. (Still not sure he made the right dad move there, but whatever....

Kindle Fire’ Kids Deals The kid-proof case, for starters, renders this thing basically unbreakable. It has fantastic parental controls with mom and dad being able to create screen time limits, set educational goals, and filter content. The display is 10.1″ 1080p full HD. And you get 2 MP front and rear-facing cameras with 720p HD video recording. Note that the new Kindle Fire 10 for kids has a 10 inch screen, a more powerful CPU, and higher resolution....

Parents of school-aged kids understand, perhaps better than anyone, that the school year is almost perfectly timed with the flu season. We are essentially sending children into a human petri dish where close quarters and poor hygiene habits make it incredibly easy for a flu virus to hop from child to child. When the child comes home, if there are no precautions in place, the virus can then be passed to their family members....

The Sesame Workshop is doing its best to equip parents suddenly faced with these challenges. For instance, it just made a trove of eBooks available for free. That translates to hours and hours of time reading and learning for kids, hours and hours of time parents won’t have to worry about keeping them occupied. Just as impressive as the sheer amount of content parents gained access to in one fell swoop is their variety....

1. Amp Up the Foreplay The experts estimate it takes women around 20 minutes or so to become fully aroused. Men, on the other hand, can usually get there in a fraction of the time. Of course, sex requires some compromise. But when it comes to matters of arousal and orgasm, the tortoise usually takes precedence over the hare. The more time spent on foreplay, the more opportunity the clitoris has to fill with blood and for the vagina to become lubricated....

So, should you? Nope, no, not a chance. “We know that children who were spanked are more violent in relationships,” says Tom Limbert, author of Dad’s Playbook: Wisdom for Fathers from the Greatest Coaches of All Time. “Spanking teaches kids that you can solve things with force and violence.” Not the message you’re trying to impart. On the other hand, “if you want to teach children to solve things by respecting and talking to others, then respect and talk to them,” says Limbert....

Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones, season 8, episode 5, “The Bells.” In the midst of the battle, the bells of Kings Landing rang out, signaling the surrender of the capital of Westeros. Instead of drawing her forces back or spare mercy to the innocent citizens of King’s Landing, Daenerys completed her “mad queen” arc and decided to burn the city and its tens of thousands of residents to a crisp....

The study, designed to assess what exposure to marijuana in utero could mean for child development and mental health, focused on a few measurements in kids, including behavior, hormone levels, and heart rate variability. Particularly, the researchers note that they were looking for anxiety-related issues. The study examined more than 300 parent-child pairs, split into those who used marijuana during pregnancy and those who didn’t. The researchers took hair samples from the kids to test for hormone levels, observed their behavior using a standard assessment, measured their heart rates, and took samples of the placenta....

“It wasn’t that I was intending to do anything,” says Chris, whose two-year relationship ended that night. “It was just nice to have another woman who I could relate to. But it just kind of happened. Do I think my relationship had its problems? Yes. But do I think I would’ve done what I did if Facebook didn’t exist? No.” Social media lit up the dark end of the street....

In order to see how the kids’ playtime habits would change with a different number of toys, researchers observed 36 kids between the ages of 18 and 30 months in two separate play sessions. One session involved 16 toys while the other involved just four. According to the findings, the children did play differently based on the number of toys. The fewer toys there were, the more time they were likely to spend with each individual toys....

When the ice cream truck approaches, my kids hear it before I do. They can pick up on the lilting tune of Frank Mills’ “Music Box Dancer” when it is still far away and so very soft. When the truck nears, the sweet melody starts to sound fuzzed around the edges with ugly distortion. Soon the sound is paired with the deep gurgle of a diesel engine barely above idle....

According to Bank of America’s 12th annual Workplace Benefits Report, “Navigating a New Era of Financial Wellness,” first exclusively shared with CNN, 71% of respondents said their living costs outpace their salary and wages. 824 employees and 846 employers nationwide participated in the workplace survey in February. A second survey of 478 employees was conducted in July to examine workplace financial benefits and wellness program trends. The main takeaway? People are still really stressed about inflation, and it’s continuing to squeeze families’ wallets....

Numerator conducted a survey of over 10,000 consumers in April and released the results in a report, New Realities & Routine,s focused on the financial reality of post-pandemic life, and the changes in routine and habits Americans have had to make in order to account for inflation. One startling statistic to come from the report shows that approximately 95 percent of US households admit they are making changes to their purchasing habits to account for inflation rates....

A new survey from Data for Progress and the Groundwork Collaborative found that a vast majority of Republicans and Democrats alike think the culprit is more likely greedy corporations raising prices to pad their pockets and take advantage of the groundwork set by the COVID-19 pandemic. Data for Progress polled 1,549 potential voters between February 18 and 22 and recorded 51% of Republicans, 76% of Democrats, and 62% of Independents—a whopping 63% of voters—believe that corporate greed, not rising wholesale costs and wage increases are at the heart of the current inflation crisis....

“I wanted to give my mom $30,000 to get a food truck. It’s her dream,” she said. “I told her five years ago, ‘I’ll get you your food truck, but you gotta be responsible.’ She’s like ‘Thank you, baby’…so my mom’s getting her food truck! She can cook, really really well.” It’s undeniably awesome that Mensah-Stock is giving her mom that prize money so that she can get a food truck and show off some of her BBQ cooking....

Abbott’s order came on the heels of an opinion shared via a tweet by the state’s Attorney General, Ken Paxton, that gender-affirming treatments such as hormone therapy, surgery, and puberty-blockers, constitute child abuse under Texas state law. These statements have been condemned by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Transgender Education Network of Texas, and the Trevor Project — not to mention alarming parents of transgender children. And, like other recent Texas orders, the statement has led to many legal questions: Is it binding?...

Here are the 2-month milestones to look out for, and what it means if your child is late to reach them. The 2-Month Baby Milestones That Matter Around the second month, an infant’s movements will start to be better coordinated by the nervous system. That’s why most 2-month developmental milestones focus on how a baby moves in response to environmental stimuli. Because parents are such a huge part of that environmental stimuli, many of these milestones are measured in how 2-month-olds react to their parents....