Experts have been casting doubt on the merits of giving children cash since at least the ’60s, when Helen Marshall and Lucille Magruder, both of the University of Kentucky, first reported that kids with pocket money displayed no more fiscal responsibility than those who didn’t receive allowances. Fifteen years later, psychologists in England similarly found no connection between allowances and good savings habits. The disconnect may stem from the fact that children often miss the point of allowances entirely — one 1990 study found that American adolescents have no idea their allowances are educational opportunities....

Step Up Your Foreplay Game If you don’t already have sex on your mind by the time you get to bed, there are a few things you can do to change that, and most of them revolve around touch. In her book Come As You Are, Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., discusses the importance of responsive desire, or “desire for sex that emerges in response to sexy things that are already happening.” In other words, start priming the body for some sexy fun....

Talking over someone is a harsher form of interruption. At first, it might pass unnoticed or be met with a mild upbraid, but in time, it becomes very damaging to a person’s psyche and, ultimately, the relationship itself. The person who is being talked over can begin to feel marginalized and powerless because, intentional or not, beneath the action itself runs a current of disrespect. Eventually, that current, if left unchecked, could end up sweeping both people away....

The good news is that the importance of dads is increasingly acknowledged, particularly in broken marriages. But that doesn’t mean the stress, uncertainty, and rancor around divorce have evaporated. It’s all still there, and conflict is often centered on money. “The key thing to realize is that every choice you make should be in your child’s best interest, not yours,” says Tom Swett, a Colorado family law attorney with over 17 years of experience....

Telling a kid apropos of nothing that Fluffy is going to kick the bucket doesn’t help anyone, which is why therapist Brenda Brown, founder of Grief About Pets, suggests that parents look for teachable moments. After all, she explains, we live in an environment where things die all the time—like bugs, critters and plants. “It starts with nature,” she explains. “They’re already seeing death everywhere.” She suggests calling attention to all that death rather than ignoring it....

Plenty, it turns out. You just need to acknowledge the root cause of the pain, and stretch correctly and often. “The back pain you experience from a long time spent in the car is due to the pressure on the discs in your back,” says James Wyss, M.D., a sports physiatrist and co-director of the Athletes Spine Program at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. “These discs act as a shock absorber between the vertebrae....

“Lice literally need a bridge to cross over from one head to another. Our hair acts as that bridge,” says Nancy Fields of Lice Happens Maryland. “They can’t fly. Even though they have six legs, they don’t have muscles like fleas to jump or hop. But they do have claws specifically designed to hang on to human hair. And they’re very good at holding on.” One of the best ways to get lice, then, is to simply be a kid....

But how can you watch all these Pixar movies before and after Toy Story 4? Where is everything streaming? We’re here to help. Here’s every single Pixar movie ever released, complete with where you can watch those movies online, including all the Toy Stories. To make things easy, the Pixar movies are organized by four groups: The Really Good Ones, The Decent Ones, The Ones You Haven’t Seen, and The Non-Classics....

If you’re ready to pull the trigger on HBO Max, we have some good news: You might already have access to it! And if you don’t, you might be able to get a free trial! And even if you don’t have a free trial, there are plenty of different ways to sign up for HBO Max. Here’s everything you need to know. How Can You Watch HBO Max? How Can You Find Out If You Already Have HBO Max?...

If you’ve only watched the first half of Grizzly Man, you probably think a bear would make a nice buddy for your son. If you watched the whole movie, you know better. Even though the chance that any of the 3 species in the United States will go after you or your kid is slim (odds are about 1 in 2.1 million), it’s still better to know what to do about Yogi besides offer him a pic-i-nic basket....

In public and private spaces, we want to feel like we’re doing something tangible to keep an outbreak at bay, so we clean — even though that’s not a proven way to curb transmission. This mostly useless cleaning is perhaps best described as “hygiene theater,” an expression coined in a recent Atlantic article. The coronavirus mainly spreads by breathing in respiratory droplets spewed by people with COVID-19 — not by touching contaminated surfaces....

The flight only lasted about 30 seconds but in just half a minute, Ingenuity managed to make history, as it marked the first time a power-controlled flight was successfully conducted on another planet. This opens up a world of new possibilities for discovering more about other planets, as it proves that aerial exploration is possible. “We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,” MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager, said to the helicopter team....

As much as crushes can sound like a phenomenon reserved for middle school, adult crushes happen too. It’s inevitable that you’ll be attracted to someone else while married, even if you love your partner and have no desire to cheat on them. The thing is, a crush is exactly that: a crush. While they can take up space in your head rent-free and invade your mid-meeting fantasies, you don’t necessarily have to worry about them disrupting your real life....

Grier is Pops Dixon, dad to Foxx’s character, Brian, and grandpa to Brian’s headstrong teenaged daughter, Sasha (Kyla-Drew). The trouble (fun?) starts when Sasha moves in with Dad and Pops after her mom dies. Several of the plot threads in Dad Stop Embarrassing Me come straight from the diaries of Corinne Foxx, Jamie’s daughter and one of the show’s executive producers. Fatherly was on the line recently when Jamie Foxx (cool and stylish as ever) and Grier (sporting a long gray beard and…....

“From a very young age, I always knew I wanted to be a dad,” Windle told Good Morning America. “That was something just innately part of who I was.” When Windle first began looking into adoption in the late 90s, it was extremely difficult for a single gay man to adopt a child. After moving to Florida following the death of his mother, he discovered he wasn’t allowed to legally adopt a child in the state....

Still, as a Mexican American entrepreneur and outspoken feminist, Alba has a unique perspective on raising kids in today’s America. She took time out of her busy schedule promoting the Honest Company’s new line of diapers to speak with Fatherly about how her baby helped inform the new diaper design, and how tough it is to talk to her kids about modern immigration policy in the United States. How old are your children?...

The thing is, Gaffigan doesn’t care. He’s the quintessential dork dad, and he owns it, corny weather jokes, fish stick dinners, and all. He’s not here to dazzle you with his worldliness or edginess or caustic commentary. Instead, he’s the master of subtle observational comedy, put to solid use in the two-part The Pale Tourist, which has him riffing on Canada and Spain, seen through the eyes of someone discovering both places without an agenda....

Appearing in the December issue of Vogue, JLo talks about the process of blending her family with Affleck’s, saying they’re “learning about parenting from each other.” Between them, they have five kids, Affleck’s daughters with Garner, Violet, 16, and Seraphina, 13, and son, 10-year-old Samuel, and JLo’s 14-year-old twins, Max and Emme, with ex-husband Marc Anthony. “The transition is a process that needs to be handled with so much care,” JLo says of the process of supporting and blending their families....

While it might be shocking that Jim from The Office knocked his horror movie directing debut out of the park, it should not be surprising that there is a tender movie about parents and family hiding within the horror. The genre has long taken real anxieties and amplified them tenfold for the big screen; think of how last year’s Get Out turned racial tension into a thriller, or how It Follows turned sex panic into a disturbing chase movie....

“I was proud to be Johnny Soprano’s kid. When he beat the shit out of that guy, I went to the class, I told them how tough my father was,” Tony proudly tells his shrink. But here’s the rub. Tony’s own son, Anthony Junior, is dipping his toes into delinquency. He’s drinking at school. He’s getting into brawls. Is it his age? Or is it an inevitable byproduct of genetics, of the Soprano family legacy?...