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Supporting your children after you have separated or divorced from their parent is key. Here’s our guide to supporting your children following a relationship breakdown.  Be Compassionate and Understanding towards Your Kids In the period shortly after their parents have separated or divorced, it’s normal that your child(ren) may feel aggrieved, emotional, and upset, particularly if they didn’t see it coming. It’s important to show compassion and understanding to your children and not be too harsh on them.  However, regardless of the emotional turmoil and uncertainty that the divorce situation has brought upon your kids, you must still enforce rules...

Once upon a time, a kid would ask for a toy and Pops would snap back, “Go make something!” Nowadays, thanks to the STEM toy and maker movement, kids covet toys that actually teach them to make, build, and program stuff. So, “Buy me something” is met with, “Go make something,” which requires a toy purchase, which leaves Pops wondering if he’s stumbled upon the nexus of the universe. To help you avoid the aforementioned brain freeze, here’s a great list of the best STEM toys, building toys, and DIY toys for kids. Because you don’t really want your kid...

This week, a mix of musical styles, celebrity impersonations and cameos, and up-to-date modernizations blend together with more traditional educational methods to try to teach a 1940’s audience their life lessons, in manners considerably more palatable than Paul Terry’s “Aesop’s sugar coated pills of wisdom” of the 1920’s. The Screwy Truant (MGM, Screwy Squirrel, 1/13/45 – Tex Avery, dir.), begins with a gag that takes some explanation today. A country schoolhouse is shown, in an unusual color – bright blue. A sign at the door, formerly saying “Little Red School House”, has the word “Red” crossed out. and the word...

These gifts for babies from newborns up to 6 months old are the perfect first toys, keepsakes and must-have gear. From educational toys to curated kits that do the work for you, you’ll finish your shopping with our top picks for 2021. Montessori Newborn Kit from Monti Kids $75   BUY NOW The wooden book introduces babies to language; the child-safe mirror is the perfect tummy-time companion; black-and-white cards promote visual tracking; and a wooden rattle, silicone teether and crochet ball support grasping and hand-eye coordination. Little Camper Toy Teethers from Lucy Darling $20   BUY NOW This set of two modern teethers soothes...

Anyone who’s ever pulled a Mountain Dew-fueled all-nighter with a controller in their hand knows that, like drugs, video games can be addictive. But now it appears that, like drugs, they might also be useful in treating specific medical conditions.For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration just approved a prescription-only “game-based digital therapeutic device,” what the rest of us might call a medicinal video game.EndeavorRx, the game itself, looks like a pretty simple 3D game in which players pilot a vehicle around a course, trying to dodge obstacles and avoid targets. But Akili, the prescription digital medicine company...