Your mama does too. But do you really understand what we mean when we say “I love you”? Do you know that we’d play hide-and-seek with a lion for you? That we’d put spaghetti on our heads and pretend it was our hair? That we’d dive into a pool of shark-infested orange juice? That we’d dangle from an enormous building? Step in front of a train? Or give away everything we have, just to make sure you’re safe?...
RELATED: The Best Playsets to Buy Your Kid Now, admittedly, Luvabella is not as creepy as Professor Einstein, the animatronic robot that teaches kids science, but it does have its moments. In fact, some Brits have snidely compared her to horror sensation Annabelle ⏤ a reference most 4-year-olds, thankfully, aren’t going to get. What they will love is that Annabelle, sorry, Luvabella, laughs when she’s tickled, drinks from a bottle, and will play Peek-a-Boo with them....
In TMNT #93, Karai attempts to convince Jennika, Splinter’s second-in-command, to betray Splinter and join him in his fight to control the Foot Clan, a global ring of ninjas. She refuses, and he stabs her, Mortal Kombat-style, with a sword right through the torso. In last week’s 95th issue, the Earth Protection Force — a government group dedicated to eradicated mutant and alien life on earth — is bearing down on the group, as if they didn’t have enough problems....
A study conducted by the AIJU, a Spanish private, non-profit organization that promotes research on children and play, wanted to look beyond gender in categorizing what toys, interests and play children wanted to engage. The AIJU studied 1507 children consisting of 757 boys and 750 girls. Here are the categories for kids they identified: RELATED: The Best Positive Body Image Dolls For Kids Princesses This group literally is obsessed with Princesses and loves to play with dolls....
Rite in the Rain All-Weather Pen Perfect for an outdoorsy youngster or school newspaper editor who needs an upgrade from their chewed-down BICs, the Rite in the Rain pen works on wet paper, though grease, and mud, and boasts a pressurized ink cartridge that allows it to work in extremely high and low temperatures. You may very well want to borrow it — or get your own — and take it on your next camping trip....
The Kinder is about the size of, and vaguely resembles, a walkie-talkie without an antenna. It plugs into an outlet and can play more than 75 different sounds. It also doubles as a night light and casts a variety of shades and brightnesses. Operation is simple: There is one on-off button and it also connects via Bluetooth (not Wi-Fi) to the LectroFan app on your phone or tablet. Above all else, the Kinder is a white noise machine and it doesn’t disappoint....
Here is what every parent should know about Adventure Time, including why they should really make an effort to get their kid watching it as soon as humanly possible. What’s Adventure Time About? Adventure Time is the story of Finn the Human, a teen boy (Finn began the show as a 12-year-old and is currently 17) and Jake the Dog, a talking dog who can change size and shape at will....
Nerf N-Strike Elite Disruptor It’s not the biggest or most powerful Nerf weapon, but the Disruptor still offers solid bang for your buck with a 6-dart rotating gun and can fire darts up to 90 feet away. It also has a Slam Fire mode that lets you hold the trigger down and pull back the slide to keep firing quickly. At $11 today, it’s a worthy first blaster or auxiliary weapon for the serious fan....
While low-cost offerings are a bit diminished these days, there are a few bottles to be found that won’t require a second mortgage. To that end, here are five excellent single malts you can snag for less than $40. Glenmorangie The Original Made in Scotland’s tallest stills and aged 10 years in air-dried, white oak from the Ozarks, Glenmorangie Original is a deeply satisfying Highland whisky. Fruity, malty, and just plain delicious, it’s a dram that punches way above it’s price point....
You’re right that the first hint of warm weather tends to bring out a throng of buyers, most of who didn’t have much to choose from during the winter months. But I wouldn’t panic, either. Zillow actually breaks down the effect of listing dates on sale prices on a city by city basis. And in almost every market, including the Dallas area, the ideal time to list a home is between May 1 and May 15 (in some bigger cities like New York and Chicago, it’s actually late April)....
Look, I’m not clutching my pearls over the content of the posters. In fact, I find both the concept and the execution pretty top notch. There’s a poster of Chucky roasting T-Rex down to the bone, stabbing Mr. Potato Head with a chef’s knife, holding a dismembered slinky dog over a campfire, and shooting Buzz with his own ray gun. In terms of viral marketing, it’s a damn good play, particularly when trying to catch the box-office momentum from Toy Story 4, which releases the same weekend....
All childbirth is a trauma to some degree. I can’t imagine it’s ever ‘easy’ but maybe some could be described as comparatively easy. When I drove my wife to the hospital for the birth of our first I was in a pretty chill mood. Our friends already had kids and there was no reason to think it would be a problem for us. I was having a bit of a laugh with the midwives when we got there....
There comes a moment in every father’s life when it finally hits you: You are someone else’s dad. This doesn’t necessarily happen when you find out you are going to have a baby, nor when the baby is born. It happened to me today. RELATED: The Best Travel Cribs for Parents on the Go Today we got a crib. Until we saw this strange sleek birch piece of furniture assembled, somehow we didn’t realize we were really parents....
But then there’s the issue of discipline, of what defines acceptable behavior and how deviations from that should be handled. When there are a different set of beliefs, it can rankle a couple. One of the biggest issues happens when one parent is the default disciplinarian. While we’re far removed from the “wait until your father gets home” style of parenting, many still tend to make one person the bad cop — the one who doles out punishment and is very disappointed....
A recent trend in this ongoing debate has focused on safety, favoring highly protective parenting. This new norm calls for constant supervision, driven in large part by fears of abduction, but also reflects a priority to protect children from any potential harm. Advocates of so-called free-range parenting have pushed back. They insist that overprotection does more harm than good, and that excessive hovering inhibits children’s development in a number of ways....
For psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman, author of When Your Kid Is Hurting: Helping Your Child through the Tough Days, the answer to balance is simple: a child can deal with most struggles, as long as parents are completely behind them. How does that work? With a hefty dose of folksy wisdom thrown in, Leman told Fatherly that parents must offer as much love as possible and step in only when it’s necessary....
No spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp ahead, only a guide to post-credits scene wait time. Without giving away what happens exactly in these post-credits scenes, here’s the deal. After the final (and hilarious) scene in Ant-Man and the Wasp, a highly stylized credits scene plays. This is something you’ll want to sit through no matter what, because it’s totally awesome. Not only is it a really retro credits-scene, it captures the whimsical and flippant mood of the whole movie perfectly....
We’re not going to ruin the end of the movie for you in this article, but we will reveal if you can bolt for the bathroom after this particular Marvel epic ends. One massive spoiler ahead for Avengers: Endgame. Breaking a huge tradition, there really is not a post-credits scene for Avengers: Endgame. Nothing. No mid-credits scene. No text on the screen saying “The Avengers Will Return.” Nadda. Zilch. So, this means that if Marvel is planning on bringing back certain character who died in this movie, there is nothing in this movie to indicate that will happen....
Doki Doki is an online anime game from US-based developer Team Salvato that centers around five kids who are trying to join a literature club at their school. While at first, the game seems totally harmless, as it progresses, themes of depression and self-harm get into the mix. The characters give the players different tasks to complete and depending on how well the player does, the characters will treat them kindly or try and hurt them....
Paul Tough is a New York Times reporter with an infinitely punnable name and a contrarian take on the best way to teach kids that, for educators, might be a bit … tough to swallow. (Didn’t even need the Dad Joke Bot for that one!) Tough’s polemic on contemporary education, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, And The Hidden Power Of Character, has been described as “essential reading for anyone who cares about childhood in America....
