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They never have to share a birthday cake if they don’t want to. The older brother was born on New Year’s Eve at 11:45 pm, while his younger sister didn’t make it out until midnight the next day, making her an official 2022 baby. Aylin weighed 5 pounds, 14 ounces, and Alfredo weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce, according to the hospital. “It’s crazy to me that they are twins and have different birthdays,” said Fatima Madrigal, the Trujillo twins’ mother....

“Today one of Gavin’s [teeth] fell out while he was getting ready to eat lunch,” wrote Shandee Whitehead, the vice principal at Hart Elementary School. “Unfortunately it was lost in the classroom, and despite the heroic efforts of a fearless search team, we were unable to recover it. As a trained Vice-Principal and hobby dentist, I can verify that there is definitely a gap in Gavin’s teeth that was not there this morning when he came in....

The video-in-question captures the end of a go-kart race with three kids. Two of the drivers slowly cross the finish line only to be followed by a kid who peels into the scene spinning like a madman and leaning back like a boss. The video quickly started circulating around Reddit, and it wasn’t long before this kid’s Dom Torretto-esque driving skills were all over the Internet. The next logical step, of course, was memification, and people did not disappoint....

The Goonies is currently streaming on HBO Max, but it’s leaving on February 28, here are five reasons it’s still a total classic. The StoryGreedy developers are planning to develop the Goon Docks section of Astoria, Oregon, into a country club and so they’re buying up houses in the area and/or forcing foreclosures. A group of kids from the area, “rejects” who call themselves The Goonies, decide to embark on one last adventure....

According to The Wall Street Journal, China has issued strict new measures for video games and the kids who love to play them. The new regulation prohibits kids from playing video games during the school week, limiting games to one hour a day on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays. “The new regulation, announced by the National Press and Publication Administration, will ban minors from playing videogames entirely between Monday and Thursday,” the publication reports....

“The women are so strong!” the toddler said to her parents as they watched the women’s weightlifting events at the 2021 Olympics. “Look at that pole! And strong hands, I wish I had strong hands,” she continued. Her full body was engaged in what the athletes were doing on the screen. She was in total awe that the women “can lift heavy things, cause they are so strong,” the impressed toddler said....

Nobody told me that baseball became a life inside of your life. Nobody told me that baseball was Tuesday and Thursday, and Saturday and Sunday, and sometimes Tom I need you to be at the field Wednesday from 5:30-9pm for a travel ball game. Nobody told me there’d be teenagers dressed up like fox and kitten “furries” who “interacted” with one another at the concrete picnic table next to where your six year old was practicing....

“When Washington and Colorado legalized marijuana, both states saw massive increases in calls to poison control centers and emergency room visits for kids ingesting edibles,” says Benjamin Hoffman, M.D., a pediatrics professor at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland and medical director of the university’s Tom Sargent Safety Center. “Most edibles look like things kids want to eat — and if you’re a kid, a brownie’s a brownie. Some were even sold in packaging that’s very attractive to kids, such as peanut butter cups that looked like Reese’s....

For one, the money is going towards real needs. The largest expenditures of funds, 40%, were at superstores and other retail establishments — purchasing food and grocery items at Wal-Mart or other superstores falls into this category. The second largest expenditure, 28%, was for food at traditional grocery stores and restaurants. Participants also spent funds on housing and utilities, medical care, educational expenses, and financial transaction like loan payments and insurance premiums....

But parents do have to make a decision. It’s possible that cost might pop up as a factor when you’re weighing the various pros and cons of bottle versus breast. But before you just throw free milk in the pro column, check out the real cost analysis of your choices. The Cost Of Formula Your partner’s breasts are priceless … because they are life-giving, part of who she is as a woman, and because you’re a 13-year-old boy that happens to look like a 36-year-old man....

Toddlers are agents of chaos. That’s essentially how they explore their world. And that exploration can be frustrating for observers. But disciplining a 2-year-old who’s in the middle of learning important things isn’t constructive — and is bound to fail. It’s far better for parents to adjust their expectations. When defiant toddlers throw their bottles, frustrated parents often turn to parenting expert Catherine Pearlman, author of the book Ignore It!...

At What Age Do Babies Crawl? Babies typically start crawling between 7 and 10 months of age, though some opt to scoot around on their bottoms, roll from place to place, or even crab walk instead of starting to crawl from the get-go. Some toddlers skip learning to crawl altogether. As long as a child is making an effort to get from point A to point B by baby-crawling age, everything is just fine....

Wrong. “There is no study which supports the view that parents giving alcohol to their kids reduces, moderates, or positively influences their drinking habits — quite the reverse,” co-author on the study Richard Mattick, of the University of New South Wales told Fatherly. “There’s nothing in the literature that suggests these parents who think they’re doing the right thing are achieving a positive outcome.” We asked Mattick to describe his work debunking the “Better They Try It With Me” parenting myth....

30 years ago, in 1989, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade did what The Temple of Doom failed to do on almost every single level: It delivered a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark that not only improved upon the original, in many ways, it actually surpassed it. I mean, the “Lost Ark” sounds pretty awesome, but what the fuck is it, really? A box with ancient scriptures that somehow creates a death vortex and shoots lightning?...

That “extracurricular gap” — the difference between which kids get to go play sports, or do ballet, or try art class outside of school — and kids who don’t get that privilege shows up earlier than previously understood. That can have huge ramifications down the road, considering how sports help kids develop emotional regulation skills and music classes have been shown to fuel educational curiosity. Part of a larger Early Learning Ohio project that explores learning, achievement, and social development for kids in preschool through third grade, the study tracked 400 students from 31 classrooms in one large Ohio school district....

How did axe hucking come to be? The game — shall we call it an axe-tivity? — was invented by people who spend a lot of time indoors, own a plethora of axes and, unlike Americans, aren’t afraid of handing them to strangers: Canadians. Over the past decade, it’s gone from backyard amusement to a structured indoor game in a bunch of Canadian cities. Beginning last September when Cope’s company Urban Axes opened a facility in Philadelphia — the first in the U....

Yes, you read that correctly. Now, before you decide that I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, and have clearly eschewed the joys of parenthood for the cheap thrills of dressing my dog up like a weiner, let me clarify: I am acutely aware that dogs and children are wildly different breeds. I mean species. And I have one of each, in fact — i.e., a canis lupus familiars and a miniature homo sapien, and while both are on a leash, my love for the latter runs far deeper....

It Allows Me to Be a Part of My Children’s Lives “I don’t want remote work to end because of the convenience it’s given me. I don’t need to drive to work. I’m able to cook my own meals. It’s less exhausting overall. Working from the office was such a drain. When I came home, I just felt like resting and sleeping. No matter how much I wanted to bond with my kids, I was always so tired....

“Teething pain seems worse at night because infants are tired and have fewer reserves to deal with discomfort,” says physician Andy Bernstein, M.D. “Also, they don’t have the activities and fun of daytime to distract them when they’re winding down to get ready for bed.” There’s evidence that pain and fatigue are intricately linked for most people — those with chronic pain tend to report fatigue, and those with chronic sleep problems tend to report pain....

“It depends on the intent behind the use of the word,” says Heidi McBain, LMFT, a therapist in Flower Mound, Texas. “If someone is using it in a cute, joking way and the other person is fine with that, then there probably wouldn’t be an issue. However, if the person is using it to be hateful and mean, then the other person probably feels the use of this word at a deeper, much more hurtful level....