— kali9/E+/Getty Images Spooky season is upon us, and one city has a plan to make it the best one yet. Halloween in Boston just got a little more festive, and a whole lot more safe, thanks to a program that will provide residents with grants to throw block parties in their neighborhoods. So Bostonians, it’s time to break out your best Halloween party games and put up your most impressive decorations. If there’s a spooky, scary block party near me, you can bet all your trick-or-treat loot that I will be in attendance. The idea for the grants didn’t...
TikTok Star Offers Novel Solution To Gun Violence In America
— TikTok Among the perpeutally hot button issues in the United States is the subject of guns. While an majority of Americans are in favor of stricter gun laws, including universal background checks, there does not seem to be the political will to move forward with tightening regulations and restrictions on firearms. But TikTok star Ryann, who posts as @ryannpdatsme, offers a novel solution to this fraught topic: gun insurance. “I don’t say this often, but I think the insurance companies need to get involved,” she says. “In fact I don’t think I’ve ever said that in my life, but...
20 Baby Names Parenting Editors Loved, But Didn't Use
— AleksandarNakic/E+/Getty Images Naming a baby is something that, for most parents, involves a lot of deliberation. If you’ve always known what you wanted to name your kids and your partner agrees, amazing! But for the vast majority of families, you’ll go back and forth countless times debating which names are in, out, kind-of-in-but-we-hate-the-nickname… you get it. As parenting editors, we cover a ton of baby name trends. Here are the baby names we loved but didn’t use (and why). Who knows? Maybe your baby’s perfect moniker is somewhere in this list. When my husband and I were expecting our...
Ashton Kutcher Says That ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Impacts How He Raises His Kids
— Icon Sportswire/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Recently, Ashton Kutcher stirred up some controversy when he admitted — during an episode of the podcast Throwbacks — that he and his wife Mila Kunis parent their children, daughter, Wyatt, now 9, and son, Dimitri, now 7, differently. He largely implied that the distinct approaches to each child leaned into gender stereotypes that he hasn’t unlearned quite yet. Kutcher conceded to hosts Matt Leinart and Jerry Ferrara that the large amounts of “toxic masculinity” he’s experienced in his life are probably playing a role in how he raises his children, admitting to feeling more...