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You shouldn’t worry too much about that! According to a new study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, smartphones may actually make your memory skills better, not worse. Neuroscientists have long been researching whether the excessive use of phones and tablets can be linked with the development of “digital dementia” — a decline in cognitive abilities, such as memory, caused by smartphone overuse. But the scientific jury is out on how bad this actually might be, if bad at all....

Gomez’s SNL gig was hilarious, and not just because one of the best sketches had a cameo from Saturday Night Live legend Steve Martin. Here are the five best sketches from the Selena Gomez SNL that prove this episode was killer. BRATZ Dolls with attitude come to life to try and help a tween feel better about her parent’s divorce. For every parent who has wondered why the hell Bratz dolls exist at all, this sketch is very much for you....

“I haven’t really thought much about that. That’s a really good question,” Williams told reporters ahead of competing in the Italian Open. “I haven’t spent 24 hours without her, so that kind of answers the question itself. We’re best friends.” Williams is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, having won the doubles title three times with her sister Venus, along with the singles title in 2012. But she sounds like she may opt-out of competing for additional medals if it means having to be separated from her daughter....

The New Shepard capsule launched at 9:00 am EST this morning and headed up 65 miles above ground. Bezos and three other passengers experienced about three minutes of weightlessness before heading back down to earth. The entire flight took about 11 minutes. You can watch the entire space flight via Blue Origin’s YouTube channel, as they captured the entire event on video. The video is over two hours long but if you are just looking to watch the flight, you can skip straight ahead to about an hour and 43 minutes in to get to the action....

Without giving away any plot details or spoiling anything about the movie, we will say that The Predator bucks the recent blockbuster trend and does not have any scenes after credits. Once the movie is over, it’s truly over, meaning instead of having to sit around for an extra five minutes for a 30-second clip, viewers you can make a beeline for the door the minute the movie ends. Post-credit scenes have become the norm over the past decade and while The Predator may not be getting much love from critics – it currently has a 49 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes – the newest entry into the Predator canon does deserve credit for abandoning this annoying, completely unnecessary trend and letting the movie end when it’s supposed to....

As always, the voice cast features such franchise favorites as Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence, and Mr. Lawrence. Among the newcomers are Kate Higgins and Carlos Alazraqui, who respectively voice Narlene and Nobby, narwhal siblings who reside in the woods surrounding the camp.Paramount+ will stream Kamp Koral’s initial six episodes starting on March 4. The remainder of the season’s 13 episodes will roll out on the streamer at future dates to be announced....

But while less immediately impactful than the economic impact payments, the expanded and improved child tax credit is going to give parents a lot more money over time and will drastically cut child poverty by giving parents thousands of dollars per kid on a monthly basis, rather than a one-time tax refund given out at the end of the year to a smaller pool of people. Yes — the program, basically a child allowance for the next year, will help parents to the tune of hundreds of dollars a month in straight up cash....

RELATED: Parental Control Apps For Tracking Your Kid’s Every Move The app quickly scans message drafts for offensive or cruel words and, when harsh language is detected, prompts the user to reconsider before it’s sent. Sounds simple enough, but in reality, ReThink turns the idea behind most cyberbullying solutions on its head. Existing software generally requires the victim to block and report the bully; ReThink intervenes with the bully themselves and forces them to address their own behavior....

The reality is the holidays are really stressful for families, and a new poll shows that many parents struggle around the holidays. The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health asked a national sample of parents in 2021 about stress around the holidays and discovered that a whole lot of us feel the stress and the pressure of making the holidays magical – and we look forward to the return to normalcy....

Paw Patrol, BS parents inevitably say no, kids throw a tantrum, parent’s stress levels go up, repeat, repeat, repeat, for every store trip until the end of time. The study, which was published in the International Journal of Advertising finds that the more advertising children see (and ultimately, that means the more traditional cable television they watch) the more likely they are to ask for useless plastic toys and crap that is advertised to them....

September marks the start of Baby Safety Month, and Target decided it’s the perfect time to launch its semi-annual Car Seat Trade-in program. Parents realize pretty quickly how expensive some key safety items are when they bring a baby into the world. Target has come through for parents time and again with their car seat program — because car seats, just like strollers, cribs, clothes, and more, are really expensive....

On Monday, October 26, the governor quietly signed a bill that forces trans kids to play on teams that match the sex listed on the birth certificate created at birth, ESPN reports. Previously, things weren’t necessarily easy for trans kids in Texas, as the state required them to play on the team that aligned with their birth certificate — but that had included updated birth certificates, ESPN notes, which was a nice way for children who had birth certificates altered to correspond to their true identity be able to play sports regardless....

“If you squish a jelly doughnut, or put pressure on it, the jelly has to squirt out somewhere,” says Kharah M. Ross, Ph.D., a researcher and assistant professor of psychology at Athabasca University in Canada. The tasty analogy helps demonstrate the phenomenon of “allostatic load,” which refers to heavy, chronic stress causing wear and tear on the body over time. The jelly is cumulative stress; the doughy, delicious walls of the doughnut represent your body, its “health” torn and damaged from the pressure....

In celebration of Scream’s 25th anniversary and promoting the upcoming release of the fifth installment of the movie horror franchise in 2022, fans have the chance to stay at the place where Ghostface terrors began. Located in Tomales, Ca, just outside San Francisco, the stay includes a whole lot of fun amenities and perks that any Scream fan will appreciate. The listing goes live on Airbnb on Oct. 12 at 1 p....

How Much Money You Should Have Saved At Every Age In this edition of “Bank of Dad” our columnist does his best to calm nerves and coach us all on how to save for retirement. How To Raise A Kid With Critical Thinking Skills (But Not An Anxious Mess) Children take the world at face value. Parents need to help them understand what strangers want without frightening them. Dad’s Viral Post-It Notes About Parenting Are Hilariously Relatable He says what every parent is thinking....

Some LGBTQ issues get a fair amount of publicity. You probably know that it’s more difficult for same-sex couples to adopt, and that conservative legislatures are attacking trans kids’ rights. But there’s so much more than that. Fran Hutchins, the Executive Director of the Equality Federation, the national head of state organizations working for LGBT+ equality, has the solutions to these issues. Crucially, not every place has the same need for solutions....

Still, the tendency to reach for classic books from one’s own childhood leads many parents to skip over worthy new work. This is why Fatherly wanted to draw attention to 50 of the greatest children’s books of the past decade (from 2009 to 2019). With the help of librarians, teachers, bookstore owners, and children’s book aficionados, we’ve rounded up 50 modern classics that will help parents expand their view of the world, why helping kids to laugh, learn, think, imagine, dream, see, and embrace the world around them in new ways....

We sifted through reams of kids’ titles on the world’s most popular streaming platform to bring you, in age-appropriate order, the best kid’s shows on Netflix, arranged in order of target audience from three-year-olds to tweens. Puffin Rock The kind-hearted, and easy-to-love adventures of a bunch of puffins are already wonderful. But, throw in a deadpan brilliant narration from Chris O’Dowd and you’ve got some real gold. The emphasis here is on gentleness and fun....

“Three-year-olds are eager to solve problems and will make their own if needed. That’s why blocks of all kinds are fun choices for 3-year-olds who want to explore, create, and figure things out,” says Rebecca Parlakian, the senior director of programs at Zero to Three. Look into “pretend-play props that encourage feisty 3-year-olds to tell stories and act out roles, like puppets, pretend play costumes, and storybooks with simple storylines and vivid illustrations,” says Parlakian....