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From an excerpt from last year's The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, the rules of "Freddish" -- as Mr Rogers' crewmembers jokingly referred to the rigorous rules that Rogers used to revise his scripts to make them appropriate and useful for the preschoolers in his audience.
Rogers' nine rules are a ...
This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.
When brands attempt to capture our hearts (and our wallets) it can either go surprisingly well, or be a complete dumpster fire of fak... ...
TL;DR: Amazon's Fire HD 8 Kids Edition tablets are kid-friendly and on sale for $89.99, saving you $40.
Kids are practically coming out of the **** tech-obsessed and usually even know how to work devices better than adults. But that can come with th... ...
Theresa Thorn (co-host of the excellent parenting podcast One Bad Mother and Jesse Thorn (proprietor of the excellent Maximum Fun podcasting network) have a transgender daughter; Theresa has written a beautiful, sweet picture book about gender identity based on her experiences with her trans kid: It Feels Good to Be Yourself.
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The latest addition to Amazon's line of always-on, ever-listening, networked, insecure (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) snitchy smart speakers is the new rev of the Echo Dot Kids Edition, whose "kid-friendly" Alexa is like surveillance Barbie without the pretense of being a ...
TL;DR: The super cute All-New Echo Dot Kids Edition comes with a year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited and can be pre-ordered for $49.99, saving you $20. You can also save $49.99 when you bundle two new Fire 7 Kids Edition tablets together.
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Father figures come in many different forms — whether biologically related to you or not. All it takes is having someone who cares for you and acts as a role model to guide you through the trials and tribulations of life.
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Dads often get **** for dad jokes and being bad at texting, but father figures have another thing in common besides thinking terrible puns are hilarious: They're some of the most selfless people in the world.
TBH, a lot of us wouldn't know how to ...
In Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction, a pair of Oxford psych researchers and a colleague from Stuttgart's University of Hohenheim review a large, long-running data-set (Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, 2009–2016) that surveyed 12,672 adolescents at eight points over seven years.
The researchers conclude that social media use (or non-use) ...
In 2018, 109 babies born in the United States were named Tesla, as per a newly-released report from the Social Security Administration. Read more...More about Parenting, Mashable Video, Tesla, Elon Musk, and Baby ...