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That being said, consistency — as in frequency, not texture — matters more than anything else when it comes to poop. (Note that this applies only to grownups, not baby poops.) Whether you have diarrhea every morning or take solid dumps at night, poop a lot or a little, like clockwork or more sporadically, know you’re not alone. (And please, don’t hold it in). But for many people, pooping every morning is normal, and for good reason....

Childhood mental health issues are surprisingly common. According to the Child Mind Institute some 17 million American children have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, with 75 percent of those illnesses occurring before age 14. Anxiety disorders are, by far, the most common and account for about half of these psychiatric conditions. Studies suggest up to 80 percent of children with anxiety disorders are not receiving treatment. Part of the problem may be the tender age at which anxiety first manifests....

In 1996, Ulrich was being hailed as the next Johnny Depp: brooding, moody, mysterious. In 2010, he was taking guest spots on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit to pay the bills. That sounds like an IMDB slide, like some sort of failure. But it wasn’t. Ulrich designed his career to suit his life. He made some choices. He prioritized his two kids over his acting career because he felt strongly it was the right thing to do....

Finding the right fertility clinic should involve more than simply Googling the closest one to home. Doing it right means diligently searching for the best available option, weighing finances and insurance availability, finding a doctor both parents can be comfortable with, and knowing when to walk away. READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to IVF When To Look For A Fertility Clinic Getting involved with a fertility clinic really starts with knowing when to go in in the first place....

There are plenty of theories regarding how long it takes to get over a divorce. But, with all the variables in play, there’s no real accuracy to any of them. A marriage is a unique part of your life, and only you can decide when you’re ready to move past it. As it helps to know what’s worked for other people, we asked 12 dads who’ve all been through the end of a marriage for advice on how to get over a divorce....

First things first: this new emoji rollout doesn’t happen until April, so everybody has to slow their roll a little bit when it comes to getting really excited about the pinching fingers or any of the other new emojis. So, for now, if you want to know how to get this new emojis, the answer is to just wait. But, when the emojis do drop, there will be a lot of cool additions....

That’s okay. And normal. And expected. According to the CDC, stress triggered specifically by a virus outbreak can lead to everything from fear and worry about one’s health and the health of their loved ones, to increased use of substances, to difficulty sleeping and eating. None of these behaviors are ideal but, during a time like this, all of them are increasingly normal. So, even if you’re not succumbing to them yourself, you likely know someone with anxiety....

I have a three-month-old and life is pretty great. My husband and I love our little guy. We’re totally obsessed with him, our marriage is flourishing, we’re really good at this nurturing thing, and our baby is healthy and cute. I’ve never been happier. My friends, however, think there’s something missing in my life. Namely, them. A number of my friends have emailed, texted, called, and commented on Facebook that they want to see me more....

So my kids are 12 months and 3 years old and my wife and in-laws are insisting that we fly with the kids to Colorado from Little Rock so we can spend Thanksgiving at their house in Durango. That means not just one flight but a couple. One of those airports is a regional one where we have to cram the kids on a smaller commuter jet to get where we need to go....

Bringing up the fact that you’re overwhelmed at work is a delicate conversation, and one that many employees are reticent to engage in for fear that it may make them seem like they can’t hack it as a working parent. What if it puts a target on their back? What if it costs them a promotion? And so the thinking goes. But it’s an essential discussion to have, and right now is actually a good time to have it....

As with almost everything in life, though, the earlier you learn to swing a bat the easier it is. But how do you go about introducing the hardest thing to do in sports to a pre-schooler? It turns out, there’s an easy process to hitting, and it starts with building a foundation of simple movements. To learn that process, and break down how to teach a kid to hit, Fatherly talked to AJ Arroyo, a hitting coach at The Baseball Center in New York....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Raising Brothers and Sisters “We have a skewed view of learning — that it’s about teaching and content and filling heads,” explains Dr. Robert Zeitlin, psychologist and author of author of Laugh More, Yell Less: A Guide to Raising Kick-Ass Kids. “And then we complain that kids don’t have a growth mindset and they’re not creative and curious, when in fact they start that way....

RELATED: How to Throw a Paw Patrol Party That Doesn’t Suck Decorations: Zutman recommends turning the party area into a jungle and having the kids feel like they are stepping back in time. You can create some simple paper palm trees and then use the brown craft paper covered in dinosaur tracks you draw as your tablecloth. Buy a few dinosaur blow-up costumes and recruit some parents (who are ok with being swarmed by young kids) to be part of the landscape....

School safety may be a tough issue to parse out, but research has given us a good notion of what works. The answer isn’t to arm teachers in the classroom, but arming teachers might not hurt. The answer isn’t even gun control — at least not exclusively. New data suggests that local gun laws do little to halt school shooters as long as national laws remain lax or loopholes lie just across a border....

Shamyra Howard and her husband, Jason, have been married for eight years. When they started dating, Jason was already a father to two kids. Since then, they’ve brought two more into the world. Shamyra, who works as a couples therapist and sex therapist and owns her own practice in New Orleans, struggled with issues relating to breastfeeding, attachment, irritability, and resentment. But she says Jason helped her through — acting as her breastfeeding pit crew, offering emotional support, and asking all the right questions....

I’m a germophobe. To put my phobia into perspective, I have rarely, if ever, shared a cup or utensil with others (including my kids) for fear of some dreadful exposure to some unknown virus that will make me ill or cause me to go into some cationic state. To say the least, I have issues. So having two kids who won’t clean their rooms or wash up before dinner is a problem....

It was like I couldn’t catch my breath. I was afraid. I’d never felt anything like this before. I stood over the bathroom toilet and vomited even though I wasn’t sick or drinking. But I felt seasick. Like a guy in a row boat in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico with no oars and no way to signal for help. What the hell is happening to me? It was the first time I’d ever experienced anxiety so badly that I threw up....

That Stamper was happy to play the role was not surprising. Plenty of men like him have been briefly lionized for publicly performing masculinity. What makes Stamper’s reaction to the attention strange is that he desperately wants to reconnect with his daughter, who has not spoken to him for 10 years and says he abused her, her brother, and her mother before the family broke up. Talking to Stamper, it’s clear that he struggles to make a connection between his “Free Ass Whoopins!...

“Many people believe that diets based on fasting are especially effective for weight loss or that these diets have particular metabolic health benefits even if you don’t lose weight,” said James Betts, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Centre for Nutrition, Exercise & Metabolism at the University of Bath, who led the research. “But intermittent fasting is no magic bullet and the findings of our experiment suggest that there is nothing special about fasting when compared with more traditional, standard diets people might follow....

“Those three letters have not been in use for 40 years, but strangely they’ve been repeated by non-healthcare professionals over and over,” Dr. Maximilian Muenke, a senior investigator at the The National Human Genome Research Institute, told Fatherly. Muenke, who currently works U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Undiagnosed Disease Program to diagnose rare syndromes and disorders in children, admits that in his four-decade-long career he’s heard a number a derogatory terms used to note physical aberrations....