The Italian word bombolotto doesn’t have a precise English translation. It means doll, toy baby, puppet, fat baby, happy baby, and all those things at once in a bouncy, onomatopoetic sort of way. It’s what the women on the street call out when they see something cherubic that must be pinched and clucked at until […]
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My newborn son did not sleep for longer than an hour at a time. Ever. This is something I tell people and they chuckle and shake their heads affectionately like “Oh boy do I remember” which sort of tells me they do not actually remember. But I always will: The deep, underwater fog that followed
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“If your baby mama breastfeeds, she might get a clogged duct once in a while,” Ricky Banzali says directly to the camera. He says he’s going to teach us two ways to solve this problem: “One of them is for boys, and one of them is for men.” He stops for a suspenseful beat, a
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When I found out I was going to become a dad, one of the first exciting thoughts I had was how I was going to be able to relive carefree moments of play with my daughter. I look back on my own childhood with fondness, remembering the joy-filled, creativity-fueled fun I had stacking castles, racing
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From our earliest days, guys are overcome with urges that cause others to raise an eyebrow or shake their heads. As babies and toddlers, we instinctively and mindlessly twiddle our boy parts. When adolescence sets in, we impulsively jump up to smack every door jam we pass under. And when we reach fatherhood, something deep
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Finding great movies for kids isn’t easy. It’s not that there aren’t plenty of kids films — just the opposite. Right now, parents are swimming in it. In fact, quantity is part of the problem. But finding, or remembering, the true quality is what makes finding great kids movies all the more difficult. The haystack
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Dad jokes are more than funny jokes that happen to be told by men with kids. They walk a razor-thin line between wit and dumb humor, equal parts cheesy and hilarious. A great dad joke is almost always a variation on the pun — a punchline that’s both super ridiculous and cerebrally obscure. It challenges
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No one’s indifferent to the long-form math word problem with the opening lines, “There are 67 people on a train traveling west at 45 miles an hour.” Those verbal equations tend to either thrill us or fill us with dread. While we all tumble effortlessly through daily encounters with simple arithmetic, sometimes math riddles and
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You may be asking yourself: Do my children really need encouragement — or new material — when it comes to toilet humor? Most kids, after all, are already obsessed with poop jokes and poop puns. They can’t get enough of the poop emoji. “Diarrhea” and “poop” are gleefully thrown out as serious proposals for the
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There’s a good reason so many people name their children after a beloved grandparent or great aunt — sentimentality aside, old-fashioned baby names for girls and boys are time-tested names that travel well across the generations and often have roots across cultures. Old-fashioned baby names hover above trends, never go out of style, and somehow
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