We checked with Speedo for some guidelines on buying goggles. First, determine what kinds of goggles your kid will need: Are they using them for competitive swimming or just pool fun. Be sure to pick goggles meant specifically for kids, because they’re sized correctly to fit their face and head shapes. Make sure goggles fit across the eye socket and the nose; if the goggles gently suction to your kid’s face, they’re a fit....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Car Seats The most important element in finding a good travel car seat that you can travel with is weight, or rather a lack thereof, since anything more than 20 pounds is going to be tough to lug through an airport. After that, you also want something that’s easy to install for when you get out of the airport and into a taxi or rental car....

According to Simplemost, there’s a kayak tour like no other in the Red River Gorge area near Slade, Kentucky. The Stand Up Paddle offers a Krystal Kayak and SUP Glow tour, which looks absolutely magical. “You’ll paddle through an abandoned limestone mine by the glow of your LED lights and your headlamp,” the park explains on its website. “Keep an eye out for rainbow trout who often follow the tour....

The outbreak is thought to have started in Wuhan, China, and the country has borne the brunt of the disease. The latest situation report from the World Health Organization shows 78,630 confirmed cases and 2,747 deaths there. In the wake of this carnage, people are staying home. That means tons of businesses — especially less essential ones like bars and restaurants — are closed. That would mean lots of beer going undrunk at any time of the year — China drinks more Budweiser than even the United States — but losing out on Lunar New Year sales at the end of January was a particularly tough hit for AB In Bev company to take....

That said, neck gaiters aren’t “worse than no mask at all,” despite the bad press they got following a recent Duke University study. (The study, contrary to headlines, was not even designed to evaluate face coverings but rather to establish criteria for doing so.) The CDC recently updated its recommendations on masks, advising against neck gaiters and face shields, saying that “Evaluation of these face covers is on-going but effectiveness is unknown at this time....

We had a desire to do the best by our little boy. From day one, breastfeeding was thrust upon my wife as the only acceptable form of feeding the baby. I will never forget the childless 18-year-old girl saunter into the hospital room and announce, with puffed-out chest, that she was the lactation consultant. I guess there’s a course for that. According to her, breastfeeding is the only thing a good mother does....

Some of the best moments in the ESPN documentary about the ’90s Bulls juggernaut are when the producers hand a tablet to their subjects and record their reactions to clips of their other interviews. A clip of Gary Payton talking about how his guarding of Jordan in the 1996 NBA Finals changed the series and could have secured a win for his Supersonics against the Bulls, caused Jordan to burst out laughing....

But there’s another dimension that nobody is talking about: These parents thought they were helping their kids. I believe they were actually setting their kids up for failure. After all, what lessons did the parents teach their kids? You’re not good enough to do something on your own.If schools knew the real you, they wouldn’t want you.Nothing about you is compelling.No matter how hard you try, it won’t be enough....

Belinda Luscombe understands this. An editor-at-large for Time magazine, she’s spent the better part of a decade writing about love and marriage, detailing the intricacies of the institution and how it’s changed. This month, she released her first book, Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together. Injecting nods of humor into a traditionally dry genre, she explores the difficulties in achieving long-term success within a marriage and highlights some potential solutions to success for the long run, guided by both science and experience....

The “Stay Cool” High-Five We’ve all seen this one before. A player makes an amazing shot or block and instead of celebrating, inserts his dominance by giving a nonchalant high-five to the nearest teammate. It’s the ultimate power move, letting everyone know you’ve been here before and you’ll damn sure be here again real soon. It says, “Yeah, I’m dope,” but in a way that isn’t super ostentatious. This basic high five teaches children the power of subtlety....

Already fully funded on Indiegogo, the SSST from StoreBound (the same folks who brought you that pancake-making robot) is a similarly mod-styled companion piece designed primarily as a nightstand, although it works as an end table too. As a nightstand, however, it’s incredibly parent-friendly especially if there’s a baby still sleeping in the room that needs to eat in the middle of the night. And that’s because, like the coffee table, it includes a built-in thermoelectric cooling drawer with space for up to 15 bottles....

But Garner has expanded her repertoire beyond the screen by cofounding the baby food brand Once Upon a Farm, which produces organic, cold-pressed pouches. She just created her own blend, Farmer Jen and the Giant Squash, featuring the Koginut squash grown on her farm in Oklahoma. Her children are her taste testers. “I use my kids. They’re hilarious. My daughter will be like, ‘This is banana-forward. This is a great mouth feel but what I’m looking for actually is…” And I think to myself, ‘What in the hell....

“It doesn’t have to be a physical fear,” Dara Bushman, a clinical psychologist, told Fatherly. “It’s really about the desire for male attention and approval. It’s a fear of emotional needs not being met.” To be fair, physical fear of fathers does have legitimately violent roots. There’s evidence that, in the ancient world, when babies did not look like their fathers they were often abused or killed. Even in modern times, studies suggest fathers invest more energy in children who look like them....

“Research evidence, supported by every single respiratory society in America and Europe, has found that 90 percent of over-the-counter medicines do not much or nothing for a cough,” explains pulmonologist Dr. Gustavo Ferrer, founder of the Cleveland Clinic Florida Cough Clinic and author of Cough Cures: The Complete Guide to the Best Natural Remedies and Over-the-Counter Drugs for Acute and Chronic Coughs. And the cough medicines that do work, do so because of codeine, which is an opioid....

Those giggles and guffaws can seem like just silly throwaways. But laughter, in response to funny events, actually takes a lot of work, because it activates many areas of the brain: areas that control motor, emotional, cognitive and social processing. As I found when writing “An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor,” researchers now appreciate laughter’s power to enhance physical and mental well-being. This article was republished from The Conversation ....

The set is nearly 1,000 pieces (979, to be exact) and comes with some neat extras that fans of the MCU will go nuts for, including a mini Thor figure and mini versions of the Infinity Gauntlet, the Tesseract, and Odin’s Fire. It also comes with a stand where you can set Mjölnir when you are not using it to fight against the forces of evil. And this version of Mjölnir is built to last and will not fall apart the minute that you pick it up....

Tried-and-true advice. It also doesn’t hurt to have a few go-to dishes on standby that you know kids will enjoy. And Anand’s recipe for Butter Chicken Mac and Cheese, a recipe he often makes for his 4-year-old son, Rhyal, is a potential keystone for that list — a creamy, crunchy Indian-inspired spin on the classic dish. “It’s so comforting,” says Anand. “We’re taking something simple like mac and cheese and elevating it several levels by adding a few ingredients....

The brand-new water guns are, as their name suggests, inflatable. They start out as limp little balloons on top of a standard trigger handle. When blown up, they look like cool, colorful spaceships or grinning sharks and are roughly two feet long. They have a capacity of 1.5 ounces and can fire up to 15 feet. The fact that the guns are inflatable is weird, sure. But has several advantages....

While the screen helps keep body parts out of harm’s way, this chiminea is made out of metal that will get hot. You can still roast a good s’more in it, but you’ll likely have to be sitting to do it. While the closed firebox helps cut down on embers floating through the air, you should still keep it about 10 feet away from anything combustible or materials that might melt, like vinyl siding....

The most disquieting thing about the debate wasn’t necessarily the hostility, but more that it seemed to lack any messages aimed at people. There were a lot of topics like climate change and tax codes in the debate — but not a lot of discussions about families or children. The word “family” was uttered seven times total in the debate, and in all of those instances, it was connected to either Trump’s personal family or Biden’s....