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In the ongoing culture war over sexual identity, there’s an argument we hear all too often: “How will I explain this to my children?!” It’s an abstract appeal to emotion at best, but the biggest flaw in this argument is simple — the real problem is never the children. It’s the so-called grown-ups. The other day, my 4-year-old daughter and I were watching Free Birds. If you haven’t seen it, it’s not a Skynyrd retrospective, it’s an animated film about time-traveling turkeys....

Rachael and Johnathan Kish don’t need to be told about adapting. The Miami couple has been married for six years and have three children, the third of which is only four weeks old. She joins a two and a half year old brother and a four and a half year old sister. For them, keeping their relationship healthy amidst the chaos requires a healthy dose of perspective and constant communication about the time they need to spend with one another....

Monologue The monologue is rarely the funniest part of an episode of SNL but it often functions as a tone-setter and for Liu, he quickly showed that he was comfortable and game to do whatever was asked of him. He made a few jokes about being Canadian, saying that he got the lead in Shang-Chi by “asking politely (which is actually kind of true). The short and sweet monologue set the stage for the rest of the show, where Liu was often front and center earning laughs from the audience....

The popular television show Leave It To Beaver, which debuted in 1957, provides a fair portrait of Boomer childhood. The show’s utter lack of imagination was both its artistic vice and sociological virtue. Compared to today’s operatic contrivances and reality television, Beaver was pure anthropological rigor. The subjects of study, the Cleaver family, were studiously unremarkable: two parents (Ward and June), two kids (the Beav and Wally; presumably the statistically required fractional additional child would have been unsettling to display), plunked down in a suburban house enclosed, inevitably, by a white picket fence....

“Come on!” my 2-year-old copied. I was nervous. The prestigious invitation to visit my daughters’ secret hideaway had never been extended to me before. My girls had built their base camp under our crib-turned toddler bed, and the exclusive club had always been off-limits to everyone – Mama and Dada included. Even during games of hide-and-go-seek or Marco-Polo, the imaginary doors remained locked for weeks. But now? Now I was invited....

“That was the beginning of the shift,” says Joe, an engineer in Oklahoma City. “It has evolved into me being the primary caretaker of the kids, getting them to and from school, to appointments, practices, etc., and my wife having work scheduling priority. She makes roughly twice what I do now.” Joe says they used to joke to friends that he was her “trophy husband,” but they stopped because it seemed to make people uncomfortable....

As education researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings once said of the term “at-risk,” “We cannot saddle these babies at kindergarten with this label and expect them to proudly wear it for the next 13 years, and think, ‘Well, gee, I don’t know why they aren’t doing good.’” My most recent encounter with the term “at-risk” came when I was tapped to review and critique a draft report for the Maryland Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, also known as the Kirwan Commission....

Here, in an excerpt from his newly released memoir “Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness“, Stephen tells a piece of his story. I was now in fourth grade and Dad had been back for a few months. My frame of mind was better than the year before during his seemingly endless absence. On a cool fall afternoon he pulled me into the driveway as soon as he arrived from campus....

So here’s the good news, dear parents: Formula is tightly regulated, and thus, the differences are not weighty. “All of the formulas that are reviewed by the FDA have to have certain ingredients,” says Dr. Steven Abrams, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas at Austin and chair of the committee on nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics. “It’s actually mandated by a law, called the Infant Formula Act....

Using a MakerBot 3D printer, researchers from UCLA and the University of New Mexico erected 33 plastic, Smurf-blue penis models varying in size and shape from lengths of 4 to 8.5 inches, girths of 2.5 to 7 inches, and shapes of “probably left-handed” to “Miller Lite.” Then, 75 sexually experienced women fondled the 33 specimens while pondering 3 questions: Which is preferable for a one-night stand, which is preferable for repeated sex, and what the hell is UCLA doing with tuition money?...

John has tried just about everything he can think of to thaw his in-laws’ icy demeanor, even going so far as to try and take up the same hobbies as his father-in-law. Despite putting forth the effort, John remains invisible at best and an intruder at worst. The most frustrating part? He’s not entirely sure why. READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to In-Laws John’s pervasive need to be accepted by wife’s parents is a problem with which many married men struggle....

What’s the Wolf Moon? Simply put, it’s a full moon, which means it qualifies for a cool nickname. And in this case, it gets arguably the coolest nickname of all and the reason it’s called the Wolf Moon is pretty obvious: wolves howl at the moon (especially during the winter)! Easy enough. When is the Wolf Moon? January’s Full Wolf Moon reaches peak illumination on Monday, January 17, at 6:51 P....

Currently, there are four Lee-adjacent superhero movies that have finished filming: Captain Marvel, Avengers 4, Dark Phoenix, and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Should fans expect to see Lee in all of these films, none of them, or just a few of them? Here is what we know so far. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Yes, its an animated movie, and yes it’s not part of the Marvel Studios cinematic universe, but based on some recent comments from Marvel’s CEO Kevin Feige, it seems like it’s possible Stan Lee will show up in this movie in some way, shape or form....

That same energy lies behind the movement to make the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day. This is not that radical, or new: the idea for Indigenous Peoples’ Day came from a 1979 UN conference, and South Dakota became the first U.S. state to recognize the day in 1989. Today, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, and Vermont officially celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day....

Let’s be real: outside of hardcore comic book fans, nobody’s read The Eternals comic books. There is no Eternals between Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol and Brian K. Vaughn’s Ex Machina on my nerdily alphabetized bookshelf. If it’s neither an ignored classic of the genre or a critically-acclaimed indie darling, what’s the deal with Marvel’s $200 million film and its team of unknown superheroes? Well, for most families, The Eternals is probably gonna be like the Guardians of the Galaxy was in 2014; nobody has any idea who these characters are, but in theory, we’re poised to love them because they’re in a Marvel movie....

In March of 2020, as COVID-19 arrived stateside, the United States Department of Agriculture took action. It made the Seamless Summer Option, a USDA-run program that provides funding to districts to provide free meals to students without income requirements or an application, available to school districts across the country. In the state of Wisconsin, all 408 eligible school districts opted into the program, which helped ensure students whose parents lost work and schools closed had access to healthy food....

Interestingly, the two shows couldn’t be any different. Revelation is a sequel to the old, classic 80’s iteration of He-Man. It’s for adults. And after Chris Wood, who voices Prince Adam/He-Man, it’s an all-star voiceover affair. The cast includes Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alicia Silverstone, Dietrich Bader, Stephen Root, voiceover legend Kevin Conroy, Smith pal Jason Mewes, Justin Long, Tony Todd, Cree Summer, Phil LaMarr, Dennis Haysbert, and Harley Quinn Smith....

Scientists aren’t sure. There have been almost no studies on hair greying patterns, and preliminary surveys suggest we may not even really go grey at the temples first. But there’s a lot of research out there on what makes hair go grey in the first place, and the differences between body hair and head hair going grey. Here’s what we know about going grey. The Science Of Going Grey (What We Know) You may be grey, but you’re not alone....

So, while we may not be surprised to hear that people have affairs, the reasons those affairs happen are always a bit more surprising. Sometimes, cheating occurs because a close relationship with a co-worker went too far. Or because an alcohol-fueled night ended in a huge mistake. Other times, having an affair is a conscious decision — a grasp at intimacy, emotional or otherwise. Sean (not his real name) fell into his own affair fairly gradually....

First of all, my wife’s postpartum body is really none of my damned business. Yes, I’m her husband, but on the scale of important opinions, a husband’s view of his wife’s post-baby body is somewhere between that of a preteen sneering at a Picasso and my toddler’s desperation to be cuddled a fifth time before bed. Plus, it’s little-known fact that pregnancy rarely happens on its own, so I am directly responsible for the changes that have occurred....