There are moments in life when we pause to reflect. For me, receiving a professional honor ⏤ being inducted into the Hall of Fame of the “100 most powerful women in Canada” ⏤ was just such an opportunity. After decades of working hard and focusing on my goals, I finally took a moment to look back on my achievements, to examine how exactly I got to that point in life and who helped me along the way....
The act is likely to become law, and it will be enormous for American life in many ways. Still, the auto industry has concerns that one provision in the bill is going to hinder, not help, the switch away from gas-powered vehicles. In the legislation, there’s a significant focus on North American-made products. For EVs to qualify for the tax credit, at least 40% of the battery must be made in North America....
You’re a Little Too Good At Leading People You have, um, solid leadership skills? That’s the nicest way to describe a 2011 study from the Office of National Statistics in the UK, which found that a disproportionate number of dictators were born in April—including Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Vladmir Lenin. That’s not to say you can’t parlay those dictatorial skills in the workplace—other research indicates that people with April birthdays are more likely to be CEOs....
“I don’t see any reason that young children should be consuming caffeine,” Terry Cralle, a nurse and member of the Better Sleep Council, told Fatherly. “We do not know how caffeine affects brain development in children or teens.” It’s not clear how many children drink coffee, but more than 70 percent of kids consume caffeine on a given day, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. This seems to only increase as they get older — caffeine consumption has more than doubled among adolescents since 1980, research shows....
Today, scientists believe there isn’t anything damaging about knuckle-cracking. “Long term, it’s not terrible,” says Rami Hashish, Ph.D., DPT, a body performance and injury expert and founder of the National Biomechanics Institute. So what actually happens when you crack your knuckles? A knuckle is where two bones connect through a joint cap filled with synovial fluid, a thick liquid that contains small particles of gas and prevents friction between the bones....
Yes, there’s a real test. Yes, it’s legit. Yes, it’s weird that it exists. The psychometric test in question is called The Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale, and it was developed to objectively quantify nerdiness. (We assume the scientists who designed the scale scored very, very high.) Since “nerd” is essentially an objective social label, designing the test involved surveying a very large pool of nerds and asking them which personality attributes they possess....
His wife calls. She says she’ll be home in an hour and asks what he’s been up to while she’s been away. Odds are he won’t give a full accounting of his solo activity — meaning, the porn-watching won’t be mentioned. It’s more than just the privacy of the act that prevents him from sharing; it felt like he was doing something behind her back. For many men, watching porn often occurs in secret....
James Breakwell understands this. Better known by his Twitter handle @XplodingUnicorn, Breakwell is the Internet’s patron saint of funny parenting tweets. The comedian, author, and father of four daughters has amassed more than 1 million followers by firing off relatable, genuinely funny tweets about fatherhood and basically defined a often-imitated (but rarely replicated) dad joke style. Often written in a minimalistic back-and-forth dialogue between him and one of his children, Breakwell’s tweets encapsulate the weirdness and hilarity of being a modern parent who picks up on the strange, often charming things his children say....
If you’re not totally immersed in the Fast and the Furious franchise, here are two things you should know: The secret message of the movies claims not to be about being fast or furious, but instead, about being a found family. Second, nearly every single major action star on the planet has appeared in these films at some point, including the Rock, though, he’ll never appear in one ever again because he and Vin Diesel are locked in a real-life blood feud that will likely last forever....
Yesterday in Vanity Fair, an essay written by author Jesmyn Ward was published in the September 2020 edition of the online magazine. Jesmyn Ward is, of course, an accomplished and critically acclaimed novelist. Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing, and Where the Line Bleeds, among many other books, have earned her accolades and awards. She won the National Book Award for Fiction, she was a MacArthur fellow. Her accomplishments are too great to list here....
Joe and Sophie are officially mom and dad to two kids now, their representatives confirm to People. “Joe and Sophie are happy to announce the arrival of their baby girl,” the reps shared. Their newest bundle joins the couple’s first child, Willa, born in July 2020. That’s all the information they’re giving for now. Other celebrities happily share all the details about their baby, including their birth date and what birth was like, along with a baby picture or two....
“Last night my son said to my daughter that her princesses couldn’t come in his dinosaur castle. I just stopped him. I said, ‘Let me tell you something, princesses are stronger than dinosaurs. And princesses can go in the dinosaur castle and you know what? Girls can play with dinosaurs and boys can play with princesses,’” says Baldoni. “I don’t know where he learned this.” Baldoni can create the most equitable of environments at home, but when his kids go out into the world, they see the same images as the rest of us....
“During the first two days of Leafar’s life, his blood sugar count had been low, and as much as I had committed myself to strictly breastfeed, my milk hadn’t come in yet,” Von D wrote in an Instagram post. “The pediatrician suggested asking around to see if any friends might have a bit of extra milk they could donate – and if not, I’d have to consider supplementing with formula – something we personally did not want to do....
According to a new report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association, positive cases of COVID-19 among kids are surging, and it’s just the first week of school. “As of September 2, over 5 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic,” the report states. “About 252,000 cases were added the past week, the largest number of child cases in a week since the pandemic began....
“We think it’s important to be able to tell stories about bodies,” the public broadcaster DR said on Facebook, according to The Daily Beast. The super-long schlong possessed by Mr. Penis Man allows him to sometimes light fires, but also, apparently, get hooked to balloons. How this teaches kids about anatomy is unclear, but at least one Danish kids’ expert said: “We [Danish culture] have a tradition to push the limits and use humor and we think it’s totally normal....
As the father of four, I coached youth sports for 13 years. Coaching baseball, basketball, and soccer, I saw my share of inside-the-park home runs and muffed fly balls, fast breaks, and air balls, beautiful goals and whiffs inside the 18-yard box. I coached boys and girls teams, butterfly chasers and future college athletes, teams competing for district championships and teams racing to the bottom. This story was submitted by a Fatherly reader....
Jess’s stance changed when she went to a first grade parent-teacher conference for her 7-year-old. “Because he’s a year behind my first, he was doing everything my first would do. He was reading when he started kindergarten. He could color in the lines when he was three. Then, the teacher told me he was average. I’m pretty sure my jaw hit the floor. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?...
The first thing you’ll notice is the lovely wooden body and accents, which allow the system to seamlessly blend in with your home and nursery décor. Because if it’s going to be looking at your family 24/7, it might as well be nice to look back at. The second thing you’ll notice — not from the exterior but quickly upon use — is the gang of robust monitoring and feedback features that made the system a 2015 CES Innovation Award Honoree....
