It’s the age-old parenting dilemma: Let your kids win the board game to boost their self-esteem, or send them to bed in tears with the valuable life lesson that the real world isn’t fair and they will never sink your battleship. Sure, psychologists suggest you do both (at least if you’re trying to raise a kid who doesn’t put a hole in his bedroom wall every time he gets beat in Uno), but occasionally you want do the bull dance around the living room....

Caitlin and Michael Doemner understand what it takes to transition into life after kids. The Mojave Desert couple, who have four kids — a 16 year old from Michael’s previous marriage and three kids under seven — have never not had kids in their relationship. That forced them pretty early on to prioritize each other, They realized very quickly that, without a stable partnership themselves, their kids would never feel stable....

And now…it…may actually happen? Let’s not get our hopes up to high, but Hugh Jackman dropped an Instagram that has led the internet to freak out. Here’s what happened. After fan “BossLogic” posted some art of Wolverine’s claws (kind of a faux-mock-up poster of an unmade movie) Hugh Jackman shared that post on July 4, 2021. via Instagram stories LokiDoctor Strange and the Multiverse of MadnessLoki creates mutliverse+Upcoming Doctor Strange Movie+Random Hugh Jackman Instagram posts = WOLVERINE IS GOING TO MEET THE SCARLET WITCH!...

The outbursts certainly put his love of the Incredible Hulk into perspective: When calm, he was our mild-mannered boy. When pissed off, he was flipping chairs and tearing up books. You wouldn’t have liked him when he was angry. I didn’t. I should note that my wife and I are avid DIYers — we prefer to do things ourselves rather than calling in outside help. So we defaulted to trying to solve the problem of our son’s outbursts on our own....

Like all TikTok challenges, the “Old Man Test” is a fun time-waster that provides video fodder for the masses. It challenges participants to stand on one foot while putting on a sock and shoe on and then tying the shoe. Obvious hijinks ensue. But it’s not all fun and games. A team of international researchers has found that balancing on one foot, whether while putting on a sock or not, provides an insightful clue into how long a person may live....

Here’s what parents whose kids have iPhones can expect from the new feature—and what all parents should know about this new front in both the battle against Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and the debate over online privacy. How does it work? Put simply, Apple’s technology converts images to numbers (known as hashes) based on the specific features of the image. It’s designed to ensure that different images produce different hashes while identical and visually similar images produce the same hash....

If your child falls instantly in love with Roger Rabbit, as my six-year-old did recently when I introduced the character to him via the short films available for streaming on Disney+ you are out of luck, however, because Roger Rabbit’s journey through pop culture ended not long after it began, with a stone-cold instant masterpiece that has only gotten better with time and a few similarly masterful shorts. 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasn’t just a towering masterpiece of technology and storytelling; it was a pop culture phenomenon....

But the truth is, even couples who think that they have things wired in the bedroom can learn a thing or two from sex therapy. Because when did learning new tricks ever hurt? “It’s always good to learn new things and to learn how to keep it exciting,” says Dr. Stacy Friedman, DHS, a clinical sexologist and certified sex coach.“It’s not always just about fixing something that’s broken, it’s about keeping it from breaking....

But the story here is Bardem. He’s only dabbled in family fare, playing Captain Salazar, the baddie in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and signing on to portray King Triton in a live-action version of The Little Mermaid. Our guess is that he’s adding such credits to his resume so that his kids, Leo and Luna, who are 10 years old and younger, can actually see something their dad is in....

Trebek, the smooth-as-silk game show host extraordinaire, who logged 37 years with Jeopardy, died on November 8 at the age of 80. His passing came after a long battle with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which he’d revealed publicly in March 2019. He actually waged that battle for so long that Trebek had time to pen an autobiography, regularly update fans on the highs and lows of his treatment, enjoy time with his family and, quite remarkably, despite the raging pandemic, return to his hosting duties on Jeopardy!...

Stiller got his start in a comedy duo with his wife Anne, to whom he was married from 1954 until her death in 2015. Later in his career, he became best known as George Costanza’s dad on Seinfeld and in various appearances in films with his real-life son, Ben Stiller, who announced his father’s passing in a tweet sent early this morning. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Stiller served in World War II....

Jessica Springsteen will officially compete in the Olympics this year on the Olympic equestrian team. According to Sports Illustrated, 29-year-old Jessica Springsteen was named as one of the four athletes set to compete on the U.S. Olympic equestrian team. This is set to be Jessica’s first Olympics, four years after not qualifying for the games in 2016 due to her horse experiencing some leg issues. Now, Jessica and her horse Don Juan van de Donkehoeve, a 12-year-old Belgian Warmblood stallion, will be competing for gold during the jumping events, which will take place August 3 through August 7....

Most parents don’t aspire to helicopter status. They don’t set out to hover, or overprotect, or wrap their kids in plastic bubbles ⏤ it just happens. Somewhere along the way to raising a strong independent kid, it’s easy to veer off track. The Jiobit is designed to steer them back on course. It’s a lightweight GPS location tracker that gives parents the peace of mind to let their kids be kids....

The new images came from an international mission led by NASA, partnering with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Explaining the new galaxy photos like you’re 5: According to NASA, the new images from the JWST show a pair of galaxies called II ZW 96, which is roughly 500 million light-years away from Earth. It’s close to the celestial equator, which can be thought of as Earth’s equator projected onto the celestial sphere, or an imaginary sphere projected into space with the observer smack dab at the sphere’s center, according to Almanac....

For the new study, researchers surveyed more than 25,000 North Carolinian fourth graders and collected data showing that Black students who lived in racially segregated communities were exposed to lead more frequently than white students. They also had lower reading test scores than white students of the same age and grade level. The new research also found that the effects of childhood lead exposure can persist into adulthood and are predominant in racially segregated Black communities....

Single Parents Need to Make Way More Than They’re Earning Right Now The study found that to make ends meet — meaning covering the costs of medical care, transportation, food, housing, and childcare — a family with one adult and two kids needs to earn an average of $35.80 an hour (or about $75,000 a year). In some counties, that amount could dip as low as $29.81 an hour (or about $63,000 a year)....

Lee Sanderlin, the loser in this case, tweeted yesterday as he served his official league punishment, where he was forced to spend 24 hours in a waffle house but for every waffle he eats, he gets one hour taken off. Sounds simple enough but it quickly turned into a living nightmare that reduced Sanderlin to “one human who is dead on the inside.” Sanderlin started out strong, eating four waffles in the first 90 minutes but the toll of overindulgence quickly caught up with him, and with 18 hours to go he was already requesting for somebody to “launch me into the sun....

HowMuch.net, a financial literacy website, wanted to look into the home market and how realistic it is for Americans to be able to purchase a new home. Specifically, they analyzed home affordability in the United States, the median price of a new home in each state, and the percentage of households within that state that could afford it. What they found was it’s difficult to afford a new home — like impossibly so — in most states across the country....