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Created by Craig McCracken, the animated version of The Powerpuff Girls ran on Cartoon Network from 1998 to 2005 and spawned a feature film, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, released in 2002. The show and movie followed Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, superpowered young sisters – created by their dad in a laboratory — who tried to live a normal life while protecting their beloved Townsville from monsters and mayhem. Parents at home appreciated the cartoon’s smart characters and girl-power vibes, and it seemed to appeal equally to girls and boys....

Here’s what you need to know now. What is being recalled? On July 28, Lyons Magnus LLC issued a voluntary recall in conjunction with the FDA due to the potential for microbial contamination, including from the bacteria Cronobacter sakazakii. The recall spans a wide variety of milk alternatives, prepackaged coffee products, and nutritional supplements, affecting 53 products total. “Preliminary root cause analysis shows that the products did not meet commercial sterility specifications,” Lyons Magnus said in a statement about the recall....

Tennessee dad, Justin Kanew, attended a local school board meeting to share his thoughts on the vote a week prior in favor of making it a requirement for all staff, visitors, and students at school to wear masks. That previous meeting got very heated, with parents protesting the mandate. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee issued an executive order making it a requirement for schools across the state to allow parents to exempt their children from any mask mandates....

“She said, ‘Who’s hosting?’” Damon joked. “And I said, ‘Me. Your Dad. Matt Damon.’” More like our dad. Because it turns out, the monologue was just one moment in an evening of comedy that made a pretty good argument for Damon, a father of four, to be America’s handsome, funny, sometimes embarrassing dad. In 2016, Tom Hanks donned a cardigan and gave America a pep-talk. “You’re going to be just fine....

“Only five research studies have restricted their definition of spanking to open-handed swats on the bottom, [and] none of them found any harmful effects of spanking,” Robert Larzelere, Ph.D., a parenting professor and researcher at Oklahoma State University who has authored numerous papers about discipline and spanking since the 1980s, told Fatherly. “And four studies found it to be tied for first place as the most effective way to enforce cooperation with timeout in defiant 2- to 6-year-olds....

The New York Times. And, perhaps the best part of the pregnancy announcement, despite the joy that the couple must be feeling, is how they actually quietly honored the late Princess Diana in their announcement.It turns out that on February 14th, 1984, Buckingham Palace announced that Diana was pregnant with her second child — making it 37 years to the day since Diana announced she was pregnant with Prince Harry....

After a Reddit user ranted about a rude coworker on the r/BabyBumps subreddit, user Myshkinia responded to share her similar experience. However, things took a turn when her son needed a diaper change and she had to switch into mom mode…and forgot to switch off her voice-to-text feature. The comments start off normally with “My pregnancy and child have brought up a ton of horrible…” but quickly descends into mom-speak “…do we have a poop uhoh poop poop poop poop poop poop....

Out of the corner of my eye, I see a guy who’s almost six-and-a-half feet tall carrying what looks like a wide-eyed young girl almost the same size as he is, only she’s stiff and her arms and legs stick out. She isn’t real. She’s a doll and all bets are off. None of the babies here are real, either. I’m here, in a hotel adjacent to a retail park about 40 miles northeast of London amongst hundreds of mostly female, mostly middle-to-late-middle-aged women, some partners, and a smattering of youngsters, because of my five-year-old daughter....

Although the first three episodes of WandaVision took place exclusively inside of fake-sitcoms, episode 4 did reveal that the entire town of “Westview” exists in some kind of energy bubble somewhere in New Jersey. In the contemporary Marvel world (roughly 2023) Kat Dennings from Thor and Randall Park from Ant-Man are investigating the weird sitcom from the outside. And now that Captain Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) has been ejected from the faux-sitcom world, it seems like certain pieces are falling into place....

Although Edwards and Snyder say that they have enough time to accomplish what they need to, successfully managing their newfound hybrid duties as full-time, do-it-all parents/working professionals/teachers has been a real challenge. So, they developed a system where each parent would rotate tending to the kids (dealing with sibling disputes, OK-ing snacks, answering questions) to allow the other to do academic work and then switch roles after a few hours, but they still found it difficult to actually get work done....

“The bottom line is that high school grades are powerful tools for gauging students’ readiness for college, regardless of which high school a student attends, while ACT scores are not,” said lead author Elaine Allensworth in a press release. In fact, high school GPAs were five times better at predicting college graduation than ACT scores. This is the opposite of conventional wisdom. “While people often think the value of GPAs is inconsistent across high schools, and that standardized test scores, like the ACT, are neutral indicators of college readiness because they are taken by everyone under the same conditions,” Allensworth said....

The study found that every year American parents spend around $500 billion on their adult children between 18 and 34 years old. They drew this conclusion by breaking up a person’s life into three phases: infant/toddler; elementary/high schooler; and adult. Then they surveyed 2,500 parents and 500 teens and found that only 11 percent of parents said they spent the most on their child as a baby. Conversely, 44 percent of parents said that the elementary and high school phase what the most costly, and 45 percent said that the adult phase was the most expensive....

We know celebrities often opt for unique baby names and Nic’s no different. He’s already a dad of two and neither of them has names that we hear all the time. Nic’s oldest is 31-year-old Weston Cage Coppola, and he also has a teenager, 16-year-old Kal-El Cage Coppola, who is obviously named after Superman. Now with another babe on the way, the 58-year-old third-time-dad-to-be recently spoke with GQ and talked about the names he and his 27-year-old wife have already agreed on....

If you’re unfamiliar with Octonauts, here’s the quick rundown. The series comes from the U.K. and was originally based upon a series of books by Vicki Wong and Michael C. Murphy, who are collectively known as “Meomi.” The stories follow a group of anthropomorphized animals belonging to an altruistic team called “the Octonauts.” They drive around the oceans of the world in an underwater mobile station called the Octopod, from which they launch small submarines called “Gups....

New York Times published an online quiz for its readers to guess whether or not someone was a Trump voter based on the contents of their fridge. This week, the Grey Lady is at it again — “it” being quirky, off-beat election news — with a new data visualization that is about as silly as it is informative. For the first time, the publication decided to use existing polling data they gathered over the past few months with Siena College of likely voters and their preferences, and then they sorted out voting preferences by the first name of all of the voters they polled....

If there’s one singular trend for 2018, it’s old boots made new. They’re the type your dad wore (and may still wear) to hike around the Grand Canyon or through the Hundred Mile Wilderness. Leather silhouettes, whether they delicately taper or spread for wilderness stability, incorporate the latest tech hid under a heritage exterior. Whether you want a stylish pair to wear around the city or something more durable for your weekend hikes, you’ll find a pair here that suits you....

Again, spoilers for The Rise of Skywalker are coming at you at lightspeed, right now. Okay, so right away, the film establishes that Rey is Palpatine’s granddaughter. This isn’t a trick, this is the plot of the movie. In a flashback, we meet Rey’s parents, who seem like okay people, and we’re told Rey’s dad was Palpatine’s son. So, first of all, that had to suck. Imagine growing up with a dad who was way more obsessed with Hayden Christensen than you!...

We knew our 3-year-old would be too young to understand, so we decided to use the “waterfall approach”: We would focus on telling Alec, our 6-year-old, and then let him relate it in his own way to his little brother. In our family, a lot of information is passed along this way: We tell Alec, and he wants to be the one to tell his little brother. “That is what big brothers do,” he said....

“We and @BioNTech_Group officially submitted our request to @US_FDA for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of our #COVID19 vaccine in children 5 to <12,” Pfizer tweeted on October 7, 2021. “With new cases in children in the U.S. continuing to be at a high level, this submission is an important step in our ongoing effort against Covid-19. We’re committed to working with the FDA with the ultimate goal of helping protect children against this serious public health threat....