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READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Stay-At-Home Parenting Yet, many stay-at-home dads are met with a litany of questions from friends, family, and random people in the park who seem to be confused by the arrangement. Some are well-meaning but minorly annoying; others are downright insulting. All tend to undercut the role and further stereotypes that men can’t be the primary caregiver. In fact, we spoke to a number of stay-at-home dads what they’re sick of hearing and their answers were strikingly similar....

BASF Rank: 31 2017 Rank: 23Number of Employees: 18,200Median Salary: $100,900 Located in New Jersey, BASF is a giant in the chemical industry. The bulk of the company’s employees work as production technicians aiding in the manufacture of chemical compounds for products like ibuprofen. The company changed its leave policy in 2017 offering a full 8 weeks of paid parental leave for both new and adoptive parents and three weeks for foster parents....

A variety of base layers, underwear, leggings, and shirts all have this tech. There are a variety of ways this cooling manifests itself. The most common is “moisture-wicking” or “sweat-wicking” fabric. This basically means that the fabric pulls moisture from the skin and absorbs it, keeping you cool by keeping the sweat off your skin. Other brands get a little fancier. Air Cool, for example, uses their own HydroFreeze X tech in their shirts that pulls sweat off your body and disperses it throughout the rest of the shirt to keep you cool....

MORE: The Best Campers, RVs, and Rooftop Tents For Your Summer Adventures Bliss Mobile’s Expedition Vehicles are what you get when you stack a luxury nuclear fallout shelter on top of an all-terrain vehicle. A survivalist’s (tiny) dream home, the self-sustaining units come equipped with everything you need to stay alive/hidden from civilization ⏤ from solar panels and battery banks, to smart water systems and aerogel-insulated walls that keep the room comfortable inside an active volcano....

The Rambler is essentially a scaled-down version of the BOB Flex ⏤ one of our Best Jogging Strollers of 2017 ⏤ and is equally ready for the road or trail. Big differences between the two: the new model has three smaller 12-inch air-filled tires as opposed to two (all still removable), 16-inch rear wheels; its padded handlebar does not adjust; and, at $370, the Rambler runs about $80 cheaper. MORE: The Best Jogging Strollers As for similarities between the BOB Flex and BOB Rambler, expect the same swivel-locking front wheel with knob-adjusted tracking to refine alignment, mountain-bike suspension with 3-inch clearance, foot-activated rear parking brake, and ability to add an infant car seat adapter....

RELATED: How Fathers Fit Into The Top 4 Birthing Classes Breathing Technique #1: Lamaze Lamaze was the first birth breathing technique to enjoy mainstream popularity in the Western world. Named for Fernand Lamaze, the French obstetrician who created it in the 1950s, it’s an entire system of childbirth preparation and pain management. “I’m 35 years old,” says Shannon Moyer-Szemenyei, “this is a technique that my mom would have learned.” The breathing portion of the early Lamaze system was a “hee, hoo, hee, hoo” style of purposeful, conscious breathing....

Diane Arbus took many memorable photos over the course of her storied career. But when it was published her “Child With Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C, 1962” made waves. It was a groundbreaking piece of work and immediately recognized as such, which is why you probably maybe kind of recognize the image. It’s an art photography touchstone commonly used in anti-war propaganda. It’s a portrait of the Vietnam War era that shows instead of tells....

“Am I the asshole for not wanting to get up at night to help with our twins?” user u/phuckme2tears asked, explaining that while he works full-time, his wife does not. “I help whenever I’m not working but have told my wife she has to cover the overnights as I need sleep for work.” He went on to say that his wife can nap during the day as they have a nanny who helps out four days a week to give her a break....

If all you’re doing is looking at pictures for half a second and swiping left/right, a real, paper photograph forces you to decide what’s important enough to print, and focus on it for more than a hummingbird-fart amount of time. The Fujifilm Instax Share SP-2 shoots out credit-card-size, 320 DPI images from your smartphone or social media via the corresponding app and a decent Wi-Fi connection. And, like your kid eating ice cream, it does so with remarkable speed – 10 seconds a picture!...

A person would be forgiven for thinking that the simple hammock was one of those rare objects that did not require improvement. But the hammock is currently being reinvented by every would-be American designer with a backyard. The result? Four-person hammock boats, hammocks for cats, camping hammocks that can be packed in and transformed into fully enclosed weatherproof cocoons, room-sized office hammocks, loft-like netted house hammocks, hammocks that look like hanging teardrop-shaped birdhouses and architectural hammocks with rigid frames....

RELATED: When To Start Sleep Training “Parents tend to view crying as sign of distress, but we have to realize it’s the only way they can communicate,” says Dr. Sharon Somekh, a pediatrician in Long Island, New York. “The challenge is to figure out why your baby is crying and then troubleshoot the best way to help them.” Here’s how to make a baby stop crying. Checking the Baby For Signs of Discomfort, Hunger, and Gas Different cries mean different things....

RELATED: The Best Baseball Equipment & Gear to Get Kids Ready for Little League Start With Something Soft Some kids are fearless, but most start with a healthy fear of a hard piece of leather beaning them in the face. This is natural but can get in the way of proper fielding. It’s best to start off slow. He recommends using a tennis ball or a soft baseball. “The first thing is to get the player to not be scared of the ball,” Randazzo says....

The goal of treading water is simple: stay in one place with your face above the water and your body fairly upright. There’s both an arm and a leg component, and it’s relatively easy to teach to kids who are just getting comfortable with the water. There’s also no one right way to tread water which means there’s more room for error ⏤ if a kid can comfortably stay above the surface without exhausting themselves, mission accomplished....

Yesterday, I got out my camera and started filming my daughters playing with their dolls. They stopped for a second to observe what I was doing, then kept playing. They’re older now — my oldest is almost in middle school — so I realized that if there was ever a time when I should record them playing with dolls, it was now. This story was submitted by a Fatherly reader....

In a Q1 earnings call, CEO Laurent Potdevin called the athleisure company’s “Anti-Ball-Crushing” (or what used to be known as “not tight”) its hottest-selling item right now. And they’re not even transparent! Instead, they’re just casual pants you can wear to work and are made from quick-drying athletic fabrics that stretch and wick sweat. They also happened to be designed to let your testicles roam free and comfortably unfettered. Nobody wants to rock a drop-crotch or spend most of their day adjusting like a first baseman on Four Loko....

Mini Unit Bricks are traditional blocks made of sustainable wood and scaled to tiny hands. They come in myriad shapes, look like real-world building materials (wood, brick, or rocks), and stand out from competitors thanks to hand-carved grooves that both delineate unit measures and “feel great” when you run your fingers along them. Simple enough. They’re sold in a number of different sets including a 72-piece Architect, a 100-piece Rocks, and 40-piece Builder that range from $55 to $300....

The breaking point where Brooklyn parents with media jobs’ sexts are replaced with Zillow links. The inflection point, where my wife now whispers “more space” in her sleep. The Agro Krag of home ownership, the landslide that carries couples from the city to the suburbs. I am not reacting well. I have the shakes, cold sweats, the “Chip-and-Jos.” My doctors say it looks like a bad case of HGTV. I am looking into the chasm so many upwardly mobile city-dwelling parents fall into....

It’s called Wolfenoot, pronounced Wolf-a-noot according to Buzzfeed, and takes place on November 23rd. If you wish to celebrate, you should be prepared for the Spirit of the Wolf to visit your home. This Spirit will hide and leave behind gifts for you, your children and, of course, dogs. The people who treat canines kindly get better presents than those who don’t, but this gift-giver doesn’t seem to penalize people who are just kind of indifferent to animals....

Osmo Pizza Co. is your kid’s own virtual pizza shop, located in the heart of downtown iPad Town. The app also comes with a physical pizza play mat and toppings (anchovy — who still eats that?). Your kid can take orders from the screen and then build them faster than a disgruntled Domino’s employee. But there’s a lot more to Osmo Pizza Co. than just slinging digital dough. As budding pizzapreneurs, kids have to run the whole business, including working the register and making change with play money (aka doing math)....

Production on Toy Story 4 was first announced in November 2014, four years after the last film in the franchise. John Lasseter, who directed Toy Story and Toy Story 2, soon came on as co-director alongside Josh Cooley, who directed 2015’s Inside Out, with a screenplay by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. At the 2015 D23 Expo, it was mentioned that the film would focus on a romance between Woody and Bo Peep, who was mysteriously missing from Toy Story 3....