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As baby boomers age, the nation has substantially aged as well. In 1970, the median age in the U.S. was 28.1. In 2016, it was 37.9. Demographers and geographers like myself have watched as this aging cohort transformed the U.S., from young children in the 1950s and 1960s to senior citizens today. This graying of America has left a distinctive geographical fingerprint. Where Older Americans Live Unsurprisingly, popular retirement states like Florida and Arizona have high concentrations of older Americans....

That’s why we’re so excited for the new collection of Nintendo hand puppets from Hashtag Collectibles. They bring your favorites through a warp zone from the screen to real life. And while there aren’t as many choices as in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, there is a solid handful (sorry, we couldn’t resist) of options available. From the Mario universe, you can get the man himself, along with Luigi, Yoshi, Toad, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, Luigi, Bowser, and Bowser Jr....

DivorceAnswers.com, a resource of legal information about divorce, says the rate of divorce inquiries escalated during the pandemic. The lockdowns, a necessary measure during peak COVID spread, resulted in a “flood of divorce inquiries.” The site attributes this to the extra time couples had to spend together while under immense stress. “Spending more time together, having more time in general and having limited opportunities to leave the house may have resulted in some discovering their partner’s hidden traits, such as extra-marital affairs or dishonest behavior,” Lauren Cook-McKay, a marriage and family therapist and vice president of marketing and operations at DivorceAnswers....

David Beckham is a man of many talents. Perhaps as well known for being Mr. Victoria Beckham as he is for his illustrious playing career in Europe’s toughest soccer leagues, Beckham is also a prolific celebrity endorser, LGBTQ advocate, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. And now, he can add documentary star and youth coach to his inimitable resume. Save Our Squad with David Beckham is a four-part Disney+ documentary series that follows Beckham on a mission: help an under-14 grassroots side in hardscrabble East London avoid relegation to a lower division....

Like Legos, the playset is open-ended. While the Deluxe Base Station has enough parts to build a pair of towers connected by a bridge, a couple of rovers, and some other parts like a rotating sign, you can add it to other Circuit Explorer kits to go beyond the picture on the box. And for six-year-olds and up, the direction printed on the toy is usually easy enough that you can skip the directions, meaning parents can join in the fun, or rest assured kids can occupy themselves....

On the outside, you have all the hallmarks you remember from the show, from the ornate streetlamp and sign o the tan-colored brownstone building and stoop. Walk through the double door into Elmo’s bedroom where you’ll find cool pieces like a fishbowl, rocketship, stuffed bunny, a toy trainset, and stickers for other characters not included in the set. On the second floor, you’ll see Bert and Ernie’s room, complete with a chunky lamp, dinosaur toy, a reading chair, and Ernie’s bathtub....

The 540-piece kit comes with four mini-figures, including the Mandalorian, Cara Dune, and a pair of Klatooinian Raiders. Once your kid is done building, they’ll have a 9-inch-tall toy with moveable legs and a knob that rotates the cockpit. This model shares a lot of the building step-by-step and features with the original AT-ST but it does add a bunch of color on the legs and body to help it stand apart from Star Wars gray....

MoneyGeek compiled a recent analysis looking at homeownership costs and found 20 counties across the country where owning a home wasn’t too out from the area’s median income. The site looked at data from the National Associations of Realtors, including historical home prices, median mortgage payments, and fair market rent. In addition, they looked at data from SmartAsset for local property tax rates and U.S. Census data to calculate population growth and median earnings to find the counties in the country that are growing, but still affordable....

Personal finance site WalletHub apparently was thinking that too and wanted to determine the most family-friendly places in America. They came up with a list of 182 U.S. cities and ranked them on whether they were the best, and worst places, to raise a family. Here’s How they Calculated the Best Places to Raise a Family Looking at 48 different key metrics, including family fun activities in the city, health and safety metrics like the percent of people fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine and public hospital rankings, the city’s education and child care situation, and affordability....

As a part of the ongoing Household Pulse Survey, the Bureau found out what percentage of the population in the 15 biggest Metropolitan areas felt nervous, anxious, or on edge for at least several days from Sept. 29 to Oct. 11. The Top 5 Most Anxious Cities in America Breaking Down the Anxiety After Seattle, Houston was the next on the list, with nearly half of its residents feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge for at least several days during the past two weeks....

A time management technique that’s particularly useful for parents is timeboxing. Timeboxing is a calendar-based practice that re-imposes boundaries on your day (your time) with predetermined blocks of time (boxes). You simply devote a certain time box to a certain task. The effect is productivity for when you work and parent and rest when you’re not. Sound simple? Good — because it is. But that doesn’t make it any less useful....

“Uh, this looks fake but, alas, it’s our iPad today after 3-year-old tried (repeatedly) to unlock. Ideas?” Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker, tweeted on April 6. The photo shows a shot of his Apple device’s lock screen which reads “iPad is disabled” followed by “try again in 25,536,442 minutes.” While some of the comments were joking (like the user who quipped, “Do you still have the receipt for your 3 year old?...

“I’m so grateful for the gig,” he laughs. “The entitlement is not there. I can’t believe the craft services food is free. I don’t have to pay for it!” As shocked as Hale is to have found mainstream success, he’s not shocked about the dad thing. He never went through a rock and roll stage. He never went wild and wound up with a mug shot. He always wanted to be a dad and worked hard to be a fully formed adult — the antithesis of sycophants like Gary on Veep and man-child Buster Bluth on Arrested Development....

In skateboarding terms, an ollie is when the skater and the board rotate. The number at the end of the ollie is the rotations taken. For example, there is a 180 Ollie in which the board and skater rotate 180 degrees. The ollie 540 is rotating a whole lot of times, a whole way around plus another half. Both the board and the skater, and it’s very tricky. The skater has to land back on their board to complete the trick and continue without falling off....

Squid Games had us looking at our favorite childhood games from a different and gory perspective. It’s creep and scare factor has made it one of the most watched shows of all time. And now Mark Cannataro Films, “a Toronto-based creator making videos that would entertain [his] 6-year-old self,” has infused that with one of our all-time favorite family movies. In one of the more famous moments of Squid Game, players are forced to play a game of Red Light, Green Light....

According to CNN, there are a few reasons toys will be hard to come by this holiday season – and why stuffed toys might be the saving grace of Christmas. Jay Foreman, the chief executive of toymaker Basic Fun, told CNN that a lack of space on shipping containers paired with the wild expenses of shipping if space is found has impacted typical toy supply chains for the worse (that is, if your kid is into complicated, large toys....

“Yesterday, we realized a couple of young ladies came dressed up as grannies to get vaccinated for the second time,” Dr. Raul Pino, the director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, said during a press briefing Thursday. “So I don’t know how they escaped the first time.” The “grannies” were actually Olga Monroy-Ramirez, 44, and Martha Vivian Monroy, 34. They are not eligible for the vaccine in Florida at the moment, as they are not (actually) elderly, don’t work in healthcare or long-term care, and aren’t “extremely vulnerable” to COVID-19....

Walmart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the country, has removed firearms and ammunition from its sales floors nationwide. The move comes after civil unrest in Philadelphia prompted by the police killing of Walter Wallace, Jr., who was shot multiple times after his family called 911 looking for psychological help. A Walmart in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia was ransacked in the second night of unrest, as other big box stores have been in other cities affected by police violence....

But there are rules to fighting. There’s actually 10, which two Dutch scholars developed in the 1980’s, and they encompass such evergreen advice as: Avoid, “You always.” No name-calling. Don’t interrupt. Crystallized even more: stay relevant, be reasonable. It all sounds solid, but nobody can stay constantly focused. Plus, you are in an argument. “Emotions make us unreasonable,” says Robyn Landow, New York City psychologist. So you fall back on shortcuts just to have something to say, like the logical fallacy, one of those things that you’ve never heard of but probably use regularly....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Sex After Kids Now that we have that out, what can be done? Rest assured: You can overcome these stressors and rekindle your love life. We reached out to relationship exports to find the three tips that couples rely on to start having sex again. Make time for each other Restoring a battered sex life takes dedicated time and energy. That often means either setting aside time just for sex, or scheduling a date night once a week....