Wherever Del Bigtree goes, he is celebrated for this work. Parents tearfully embrace him or respectfully shake his hand. They cheer for him when he tells them what they wish to hear. At a recent rally in Austin attended by some 300 anti-vaxxers, Bigtree faced a strong Texas wind and proclaimed, “We have won the scientific argument. Your medical establishment is not here. They will not stand up and address us....
The other teams left Little League entirely to form an explicitly racist and exclusionary league of their own, which they called Little Boys Baseball. The league not only allowed racist whites to avoid having their children play with African-American children, it slowed the entrance of young black players into higher level baseball leagues by essentially disconnecting the pipeline. A generation of black talent suddenly had nowhere to go. Today, Little Boys Baseball has a different name, Dixie Youth League, and roughly 200,000 players active in 1,000 affiliated leagues in 11 states run predominantly by town recreation departments....
Let’s face it, Disney has been making movies for a long time. And those films are inextricably linked to the cultural norms of the eras in which they were made. That makes Disney’s vault catalog a minefield of racist tropes, particularly for its earliest films. In other words, “outdated cultural depictions” is a freaking understatement about some of the deeply problematic racism in some of its early films. I hadn’t forgotten, for instance, the jive crows in Dumbo’s third act, dressed in a broad cultural shorthand of post-reconstruction southern blacks, with spats, stub cigars, bowler hats and a jazz song thick with slang....
READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Divorce and Kids One Partner Feels Forced into an Impasse “In therapy sessions, I’m thinking in the back of my mind that may not be workable is when there are impasse issues,” says Catherine Q. Nelson, a clinical social worker with the Raleigh, N.C.-based Aspire Counseling Group. For example, when one person wants to buy a house, the other wants to rent and neither wants to compromise — that’s an impasse....
While its Mavic line of drones has consistently walked the line between video nerd and the everyman, DJI’s latest, lightest offering will have many lusting after its minimal package. Weighing less than nine ounces and folding down to the size of your iPhone, it captures breathtaking 12-megapixel stills and 2.7K Quad HD video, beaming back its finds from up to 2.5 miles away and remaining airborne for a max 30 minutes....
When she matriculates in the fall, Truly Young will walk onto a campus with an entire school named after her dad. The USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy was founded in 2013 after Dre and music producer and executive Jimmy Iovine donated $70 million to get the “educational startup” off the ground. There’s no evidence that Truly Young wouldn’t have gotten in with her dad’s donations, but the mocking nature of his post is a bad look regardless....
Within the context of a marriage, emotional dependence is a state in which one spouse’s self-worth is excessively bound to the actions and attentions of their partner. Even if that partner is able to provide that affirmation at first, it’s an unsustainable system in which the stakes simply grow too high — or are perceived as too high. So how do you extinguish emotional dependence from emotional closeness? Emotional Dependency vs....
Under the theory of emotional contagion, moods and emotions spread from person to person in the same manner as germs. Expressions of happiness, anger, sadness and other emotional states trigger an automatic mechanism in our brains, causing us to feel the expressed emotion. While degrees of emotional contagion vary from person to person, social science data shows that the effect strengthens over time. So, “Happy spouse, happy house” isn’t just a trite piece of marital advice....
The Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that only half of their employers were providing paid time off “for workers to get the vaccine and recover from any side effects.” That same study found that around 20 percent of those who were unvaccinated said they would be more likely to get the shot if their employer didn’t make them miss out on income to do so. This is significant because three-quarters of those who had employer-provided time off had already received one dose by the time they were surveyed, compared to just over half of those who didn’t....
The hit series from Dreamworks Animation (which airs on Netflix) stars the titular Gabby, as she shrinks herself down into a dollhouse populated by mostly cats. It’s the most high-energy and adorable kids’ show on Netflix. This season promises more dancing and even more of Rat-Cat’s antics than the previous two seasons. (Rat-Cat rules.) Recently, Fatherly chatted with Laila Lockhart (Gabby IRL) and she told us that she hopes to continue on the show for as long as possible and “maybe follow Gabby’s journey as she gets older and her character changes a bit....
On top of October 4th’s multi-platform outage that lasted several hours, the company was the focus of a 60 Minutes interview the night previous featuring a former employee-turned-whistleblower. She alleges that the website is a threat to democracy, amplifies hate speech, and — among those other things — endangers the well-being of children. After her 60 Minutes interview, Facebook’s director of policy communications, Lena Pietsch, gave an extensive point-by-point response to Haugen’s allegations in the news hour....
The journey was epic in its ambition: an hour’s drive to the airport, a two-hour flight, another hour-and-a-half drive across Italy (on the wrong side of the road), a one-hour ferry journey, and a final hour-long drive around the side of an actual mountain. My wife is a hero and did all the driving. This story was submitted by a Fatherly reader. Opinions expressed in the story do not reflect the opinions of Fatherly as a publication....
My wife and I have been home with our baby for about three-weeks and we started letting some friends come by to meet the newest addition to our family. I know that my baby is awesome, but I’ve been getting nervous because when people are holding him, they’ll kiss him on the forehead. It never fails. I’ve been reading a lot about how bad this flu season is. Should I be letting our friends kiss our baby?...
Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, assured families that old Saint Nick has received the COVID booster and will not be at risk of contracting or spreading the coronavirus this Christmas. “Santa already has great innate immunity,” Fauci told USA TODAY. “This year he is even more protected because he has been fully vaccinated and boosted. Santa will be just fine and is good to go!...
A survey of 2,000 parents who have kids between the ages of zero to 18, conducted by OnePoll, examined how paid leave impacts their lives. And the results were pretty clear: parents are angry and believe the government “has no idea what it means to raise a family while living paycheck to paycheck.” Out of the 2,000 parents, 77 percent, or nearly eight in 10 polled, “feel outraged that the U....
After that first baby passes onto the toddler stage, a lot of parents are ready to start expanding their families. And it makes perfect sense. That current kid may want someone close in age who they can play with. Plus, you’re already in baby-rearing mode – starting over in a few years means fighting some serious inertia. But, man, are they expensive. Every few years, the USDA releases its so-called “Cost of Raising a Child Report....
Puberty blockers put a temporary pause on puberty, giving trans and gender-diverse children more time to consider their options instead of forcing them to go through the physical changes associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. When trans youth don’t have access to puberty blockers, they experience changes to their bodies that can cause intense gender dysphoria. A 2020 study found that trans people who had wanted to receive pubertal suppression but did not were 70% more likely to experience suicidal ideation in their lifetime than those who did receive it....
Flybrix’s build-and-fly kits come with everything needed to launch a 4-, 6-, or 8-propeller drone with limited aviation knowledge and no tools, although you’re more than welcome to help out if you want. The Legos, propellers, motors, circuit board, even the pilot are in the box; just plug and play. You can even use the bricks already scattered around the house to build a giant jumbo drone and/or finally get that Lego Millenium Falcon to literally fly....
“Suddenly, the thought of another Christmas without her swept in and replaced my frustration with tears,” says Turner, an engineer in Oklahoma and father of two. “Not a day goes by that I don’t miss her and think about her. But if I focus on just the loss and the heartache, suicidal thoughts come quickly.” Grief isn’t linear. It can hit by surprise. It is ongoing and it evolves, says Turner....
The impetus for the amped-up undies came from Eric Hirschhorn, husband of Fridababy founder Chelsea Hirschhorn. He’d apparently been complaining about nut shots for years — after getting kicked by swinging kid feet while wearing a baby carrier, for instance — but, according to his wife, his grousing was largely ignored “I mean I birthed these kids from my own body, so it’s tough to compete with that frame of reference,” she said....
