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Our Baby Registry Builder is not just an essential collection of parenting products (although that is very much part of it); it’s a guide for expecting parents trying to understand how their values and instincts will influence the way they raise their kid. A quiz asks readers to grapple with common parenting dilemmas. The answers provided group parents into parenting types based on Carl Jung’s famous 12 personality archetypes (we’re not just making stuff up) and lead to a preview of what parents can expect of themselves....

“If you want improve your fitness, you can go to a trainer. You can take a class. You can hire a nutritionist. There are tons of options. With sex, it’s very limited,” says Kenneth Play, professional sex coach, first of his name. READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Sex After Kids Play is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based sex-positive community, Hacienda Villa. The villa, which has 15 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms three kitchens and a hot tub, hosts classes, trainings and workshops in communication, sexual health, BDSM, kink, and polyamory....

After Texas passed and implemented SB 8, also called the heartbeat bill, making abortions after six weeks illegal, advocates have waited with bated breath to see when other states would attempt to pass similar, if not the same, legislation. The Texas abortion ban — and the Supreme Court’s failure to stop it from becoming law, functionally overturning Roe — has put essential care at risk. But the fight for abortion access isn’t a new one....

“Society wants us to be these brilliant multi-taskers who can do it all but without the farting and indigestion men get,” says Annie Murray, a writer for the decidedly unsqueamish Mother of the Year blog and veteran of three births. “Momming just adds another layer to that because we have more grossness around us and less control over our bodies and time.” And make no mistake, Murray says, being a mom is super gross....

The symptoms of seasonal allergies vary from person to person. For some, it’s an annoying thing that can be easily managed with over-the-counter medications. While, for some others, the symptoms can be debilitating depending on what pollens are in the air, which can vary a lot based on where you live. And that’s where the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) report comes in handy. The non-profit released its 2022 report which gives details on this year’s spring and fall allergies based on collected data....

“When I got involved on an activist level, one of the things we stress is that it’s really the mothers of sons who are going to make a difference,” Venker told Fatherly. “They’re the ones you really have to get hear about this because immediately when they hear about boys issues, they’re obviously going to envision their child. That’s so critical.” Venker is not alone. Known as “Honey Badgers,” a reference to the 2011 viral video of a particularly vicious mellivora capensis destroying a beehive, many women and particularly mothers are joining the men’s rights movement....

Similar to the Analogue Nt Mini, the Super Nt console is the company’s take on the Super Nintendo. It’s compatible with more than 2,200 SNES and Super Famicom cartridges, which Analogue claims it plays at a lag-free 1080p. The game console also plays nice with other classic components, too, so you can dust off your old Teenage Mutant Turtle-skinned controllers, and comes in four different bodies, including a classic clear one that lets you peer at the inner workings of the system....

The Super Bowl was a major event for Whitworth, who plays offensive tackle for the Rams. Not only did he help to clinch the win for his team, but he also won the NFL’s Man of the Year award for 2022. His family was at the game — a major event in what’s rumored to be his last season — and while his accomplishments were incredible, there was someone else in his family who had some viral spotlight that day, too....

Anthony Fauci Cool Dad Job: Physician Latest Cool Dad Achievement: Saving our asses. It’s hard to be cool when you’re a 79-year-old white guy standing behind a podium in the Trump White House. But to be in that place, surrounded by cynics and opportunists, and to champion truth, facts, and reason — that makes you Brad Fucking Pitt (who will, naturally, play you on Saturday Night Live). Fauci is more rough-and-tumble than he comes across in public....

According to the latest report from the CDC: “The number of reported measles cases in 2019 is the highest since 1992, countering a long-term downward trend since the measles vaccination program started in 1963. While the current measles vaccine is about 97 percent effective at preventing the disease, the majority of new measles cases are among groups of people who were not vaccinated.” So, this means exactly what you think it means....

Here is what you’ll want to see in the sky — and when you will want to head outside and give the stars a good looking. April 1-7 Sunday, April 4: Asteroid 9 Metis at Opposition. The first major sky event to happen in April is Asteroid 9 Metis, believed to be a large remnant of a very old asteroid collision, will be at opposition. This means that the sun will make Asteroid 9 Metis extra visible at night and if you have a telescope, you should be able to get a great view of the asteroid on the night of April 4....

Inge Bretherton of the University of Wisconsin-Madison started asking these questions decades ago and then, in 1989, devised the Parent Attachment Interview. While unthreatening on the surface, the 22-question interview essentially helps scientists determine how much individual parents love their children. For instance, researchers have used the survey to identify how involved fathers impact toddlers. The Parent Attachment Interview Now the PAI is technically meant to be administered by professionals in a controlled setting....

Gift cards neatly bridge the risk between giving a tangible present, which might be returned or exchanged, and giving cash, which some cultures consider impersonal. Children, and often very young children, are themselves asking for gift cards so they can choose their own presents. However, children process information very differently from adults. As a result, giving gift cards to children has implications for how they make consumer-related decisions and how they spend the “credit” a gift card provides....

You see, my wife and I promised when we had twins that we wouldn’t completely change our lives. We’d still do the things we loved to do, like discovering new restaurants and craft breweries and exploring local parks. And for the first couple of months, we nailed it. Although we did notice one glaring obstacle: these places often had no changing facilities and abysmal restrooms. Some were downright gross. On more than one occasion, I found myself balancing my sons on a toilet seat cover or a wobbly IKEA shelf....

“The Five S’s is actually what you see the nurses do,” says 20-year maternity ward veteran Christy Brook, who works as the neonatal clinical nurse educator at Legacy Randall Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. “The only difference is that we do it all the time, so we’re really good at it.” The method is essentially a cycle of steps that lead to soothing and sleep. It begins with swaddling then holding the infant on their side or with their stomach down (count side and stomach as one S, BTW)....

First, let us backtrack a minute. Do you remember the humble trapper-keeper? That hallowed holder wherein, as a middle-schooler, you’d put all your notebooks, pencils, various doodads, and slap it with stickers? Frankly, we miss ‘em. It sure was useful to have one spot where everything went and you could just pull it out of your bag. But carrying around a trapper-keeper as an adult man isn’t, well, the most sleek look....

Resolve To Know WTF You’re Feeding Your Family Fooducate Fooducate has more knowledge about what you’re eating than any New Year’s Resolver could ever consume. (The pun gun doesn’t take January 1 off!) It lets you scan and find the healthiest choices based on a detailed grading system, provides daily recipes and tips, and connects you with a community of like-minded eaters. It doesn’t track calories, which you might deem glaring at first, until you remember last year’s calorie-counting app....

Park Math Kids don’t play outside anymore and all the playgrounds stink. Don’t fight it. Send them to the park the same way they’ll eventually interact with the rest of the outside world: through a screen. Park Math teaches basic concepts through cleverly written playground scenarios starring fuzzy animals (e.g., ducks going down a slide = subtraction) while keeping your child safely indoors, away from potentially dangerous grass. $1.99 (iOS) Ages: 3-5...

What’s the sign? According to Forbes, the federal government has told loan servicers to not send out student loan bills to borrowers ahead of August 31, 2022, the scheduled freeze end date. This has some speculating that a major decision on student loan cancelation might get kicked down the road again. “If student loan servicers don’t send student loan bills to student loan borrowers, this could imply that student loan borrowers don’t have to make federal student loan payments starting on September 1,” Forbes notes....