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So, Dad, if you want to dress your kids up as Pooh and Eeyore for a homemade Pooh adventure you shoot on your iPhone, have at it. If you want to write about the teddy bear’s next big picnic or heart-to-heart and self-publish the results, now’s the time. But there’s a catch. Make that catches. For example, you’ll need to steer clear of Tigger. Why? The U.S. copyright law that put Winnie-the-Pooh in the public domain dates to 1926, and Tigger didn’t meet Pooh — or the world — until 1928 when Milne published The House at Pooh Corner....

Swings are the most common source of traumatic brain injuries for children, according to an analysis of more than 20,000 ER visits. And while fatalities on the playground are rare—the Consumer Product Safety Commission investigated only 40 fatalities related to playground equipment between 2001 and 2008—most deaths that do occur are due to strangulation, often caused by swing set chains. The upshot is that playgrounds are not particularly dangerous but, if there’s anything at the park that’ll cause serious damage, it’s the swings....

Sure, it works over the short term (my kids stop a fight, Korean presidents make nice at the border), but the long-term gets ugly. Why? Because it’s the ultimate hedge. It’s right up there with “maybe” in terms of communicating a complete lack of a plan. It’s an answer that offers absolutely zero resolution while reinforcing a souring power dynamic. It leaves room for hope, which is nice, but it also ends and devalues the conversation....

That’s a line I came up with when my career took off. But it applies just as much to parenthood — life’s greatest adventure for those who wish to partake in it. Of course, there are ways we all idealized what parenthood may be like and how we’d handle some of the challenges. That said, adages about everyone inevitably repeating their parents’ mistakes are false and ridiculous. Today’s fathers are carving out new terrain for a new era....

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new and much-hyped up streaming service, is live as of July 15. But what do you get if you don’t want to pay? The basic answer is this: The free version of Peacock is like getting a streaming version of a massive NBC Channel. This means you can watch shows like Parks and Recreation, Battlestar Galactica, a ton of Blumhouse movies, and a whole lot more. There’s not a ton of original programming, yet, but they do have a new version of Brave New World, which yes, an adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel of the same name that you had to read in high school (and everyone gets confused with 1984....

These days, Rosenthal stars in his comedic travel-food documentary series, Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix. If you like Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but wish you learned something about food, and that there was a little more heart to the conversations, then you’ll love Somebody Feed Phil. The travelogue finds Rosenthal sampling cuisine from around the world with the people who actually make the grub, and the best part is, he’s by no means an expert....

Accoding to America, the Pope told Tenda di Gionata, a group of about 40 parents of LGBT kids, that “God loves your children as they are” and “the church loves your children as they are because they are children of God.” Jonathan’s Tent, as the group is known in English, is a support group for LGBT Christians, their families, and pastoral workers. It was founded to provide information about and advocate for the LGBT Christian community, so getting an audience with Pope Francis is a big deal....

But not everyone has the opportunity to take part in these trials. Pregnant women are among those populations excluded because new drugs have a unique potential to harm mom and her fetus and including pregnant women in studies can interfere with study results. The exclusion is standard practice for new vaccines. Not everyone is happy. There are major downsides to this routine exclusion — ones that are particularly pressing with COVID-19....

And having a child with an active imagination has been a joy. My daughter’s finally at an age where we can play together, and she invites me to pretend with her. We cook delightfully weird meals, we climb mountains, and we heal each other’s ailments. It’s great fun. But I have recently discovered that I have created a monster — not in her, but somewhere in her head. This story was submitted by a Fatherly reader....

Is he happier? Well, he sounds pretty damn happy — like a guy who has managed to balance two massive ambitions with profound success. He might be a villain in the Star Trek universe, but he’s a family man on Earth, a low-key guy who, yes, definitely is the dude from The Office. Fatherly caught-up with Wilson to discuss his Star Trek directorial debut, his feelings about Star Wars vs....

But recently some photographs of Lilibet’s first birthday party have been released. And it shows that not only is Lilibet a mini clone of her dad, but the Sussexes know how to party — or at least host a party that kids of all ages would actually like. Lilibet was in the United Kingdom for the first time this past weekend. And that meant not only was she able to meet her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth for the first time, but she also celebrated her first birthday there....

There are actually two pool noodle tricks to ensure your car seat is tight. If you Google “car seat pool noodle” you’ll encounter a helpful video from the Car Seat Lady where she recommends using about an inch and a half section of the swim toy to secure a floppy buckle with booster seats. It’s a neat trick — but probably not the one most new parents need. The second pool noodle car seat trick, however, is the most useful....

The addition of the Oscar-winning blockbuster to the Disney+ roster means that the Avengers films have finally assembled and are available on-demand and in one place—almost. Thanks to deals that predate the launch of Disney+, there are still a couple of films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that can only be streamed on Netflix—but not for long. Avengers: Infinity War will move over from the big red N on June 25, 2020 (eliminating the weird reverse cliffhanger on offer since Avengers: Endgame launched on Disney+ last November)....

On December 14, 2012, the shooter forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School. In just over four minutes, Lanza fatally shot 20 first-grade students and six school staff members. The gun used was a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, “Remington’s version of the AR-15 assault rifle, which is substantially similar to the standard-issue M15 military service rifle,” ABC News reported. In the suit, which was filed in 2014, the families argued Remington “negligently entrusted to civilian consumers an assault-style rifle that is suitable for use only by military and law enforcement personnel and violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act through the sale or wrongful marketing of the rifle,” ABC News explained....

According to The Wall Street Journal, Swimply dubbed the “Airbnb for backyard pools,” has jumped in popularity since 2020. The site operates similarly to Airbnb, where pool owners list their property, show the amenities, and name an hourly price. The site also allows people to browse available pools and make a reservation. “Swimply said its pool owners have made about 122,000 bookings since the start of 2020,” The Wall Street Journal reports....

Hey! Play! Lawn Bowling Set Avoid the alley and bowl some strikes right in your backyard. This lawn bowling set comes with 10 eight-inch tall pins and a wooden ball to knock them all down. The red, tan, and grey pins look sharp, and the fact that they’re made of New Zealand pine, a soft wood, means that they’ll show some cosmetic signs of wear but are still built to last....

“It’s more socially acceptable to cry if something negative happens in sports that’s not performance related than when a family member dies or the birth of your first child,” Tommy Derossett of Murray State University, and part of a team of researchers studying how society perceives men crying, told Fatherly. Their as-yet-unpublished work confirms that society does not look fondly on male tears, in general—but that men are given wide berth to express their softer side through sports....

“We find a negative impact of middle and junior high school as compared to K-8 schools,” coauthor on the study Elise Cappella of New York University told Fatherly. “The most robust effect is the negative impact of middle schools on students’ self-perceptions of their competence in English.” Until the mid-1900s, virtually all adolescents attended K-8 elementary schools until they moved on to high school for grade nine. Middle school drama was not yet a thing....

Scottie Pippen was the quiet one. His personality, like his playing style, counterbalanced Jordan’s. And yet it was Pippen’s trash talk deep into game one of the 1997 NBA Finals that’s remembered as maybe the most consequential in basketball history. A new oral history of the moment on ESPN.com comes just a couple of days before, we can only hope, it’s covered in the final episodes of The Last Dance....

First off, credit for this very fun finding goes to Dr. Michael Eisenberg, an assistant professor of urology at Stanford University. After realizing that a majority of his patients’ office visits surrounded problems in the bedroom, he decided to take a more clinical look into things. He gathered data from the U.S. government’s National Survey of Family Growth and, to his surprise, found that the more people smoked marijuana, the more success they had between the sheets....