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Traveling can be stressful for anyone, but it’s particularly challenging for parents with really young kids. The sitting still for long periods of time, the changes in schedule, the abundance of stimuli, the unexpected stomach bugs, the suddenly running out of diaper wipes…all the things that make trips triggering for toddlers and therefore chaotic for mom and dad.

And while there might not be a way to completely avoid every travel-induced aggravation (it’s all part of the journey!) there are definitely tips and tricks and tools to make it a bit smoother of a process.

For one mom, a peaceful trip always begins with a roll of painter’s tape.

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“I swear to you. It’s great on the plane but also on vacation,” Nichola Knox, a Canada-based mom wrote on Instagram last month.

“It’s great on the plane but also on vacation,” she continued. “Label the kid’s cups, a bandaid for when your toddler ‘really needs one,’ taping over locks and drawers you don’t want them getting into. The list goes on. It’s forever the ‘weird’ thing I bring on trips.”

In Knox’s video you can see the tape being used in myriad ways—both practical and creative. On the plane, it’s used as a snack holder and extra cup holder, a button block, plus as various ways to keep her kid entertained—window stickers, a “bridge” for his toy car, letters for a little arts and crafts time, etc.

Then at the hotel, she created little crawling roads mapped out on the floor. Nifty.

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The video received a ton of positive feedback, with views calling the idea “expert-level parenting.”

Even the official Instagram account for airline WestJet left a comment saying “Inflight entertainment that we never thought of! Very creative. ✈️.”

Meanwhile, one person added, “If I was sitting with you I would totally be participating in all the fun tape-based shenanigans! This is brilliant.”

Knox isn’t the only one on the painter’s tape bandwagon. Another mom called it a “baby proofing workhorse” in a TikTok video saying it’s great for keeping anything dangling above out of reach, as well as covering up and outlets while at hotels.

Meanwhile, another mom shared that when flying, she would board earlier than her husband and son and put a little tape over the latch to the dining tray table, since he was “going through a phase where he liked to open and close everything.”

Honestly, it does make sense that this item could be such a travel friendly tool for parents. The beauty of painter’s tape is that it usually doesn’t cause any mess or damage to the surfaces we stick it on. It’s super easy to simply peel off and go, especially when it’s only going to be used for a few hours.

And of course, parents can find plenty of ways to use painters tape at home, too. Mom blogger Kelsey Pomeroy has a few suggestions—makeshift chip clips, light blockers, lint rollers, reminders notes…just to name a few.

Sometimes the biggest parenting win is finding an easy solution that allows for more time to simply enjoy the moment. Seems like this hack is one of those wins. Happy traveling, moms and dads!

This week, Jimmy Kimmel Live has a lot to offer viewers. Each episode is sure to deliver a comedic punch, especially when politicians are the butt of a joke. But this week’s programming hopes to kick things into overdrive on the musical front, with several musicians are set to appear in varying capacities.

Here are the musical guests for Jimmy Kimmel Live this week (December 4 through 8). All performances are subject to change.

No Performer — Monday, December 4, 2023

Today, there won’t be a formal musical performance. However, Somewhere in Queens actor Ray Romano and Bookie star Sebastian Maniscalco will appear as special guests.

Joshua Ray Walker — Tuesday, December 5, 2023

The show will have its first musical guest of the week on Tuesday. Budding country music talent Joshua Ray Walker is set to serenade the studio audience. With a new holiday single, “Christmas In Dallas,” and his latest album, What Is It Even?, available on streaming platforms, Walker has options on what to treat the crowd to.

Other guests slated to make a cameo on Tuesday’s episode include Leo comedian Bill Burr and Killers of the Flower Moon actress Lily Gladstone.

Grupo Frontera — Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Leave the World Behind actor Mahershala Ali and Past Lives star Greta Lee will sit down for interviews with Kimmel. Mexican rock band Grupo Frontera is the featured performer. Grupo Frontera has collaborated with other Latin stars, such as Bad Bunny.

Atarashii Gakko! — Thursday, December 7, 2023

On Thursday, all of the guests are musicians by trade. Adam Levine is set to appear. Halle Bailey will also appear, not to perform her solo debut single, “Angel,” but to discuss her role in the new film version of The Color Purple. The confirmed musical guest for the evening is the girl group Atarashii Gakko!

No Performer — Friday, December 8, 2023

At this time, Jimmy Jimmy Live! hasn’t confirmed any special appearances or musical guests for Friday’s show.

The good news: There’s a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. It’s the series’ first since Grand Theft Auto V from all the way back in 2013. But the wait is over, right? Well, there’s also bad news: Round six isn’t due until sometime in 2025. And people inevitably lost their minds over the news.

First off, the trailer promises more sociopathic mayhem, this time with the series’ first female protagonist. Her name is Lucia and she’s one-half of a criminal couple tearing through a fictionalized version of Miami. The latest installment promises what a press release described as “the biggest, most immersive” installment yet, allowing players to travel to “the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond.”

Sounds fun! What many didn’t think sounded fun, though, was that it won’t drop for another year-plus.

While GTA fans will have to be extra patient for more, they did get something early: The trailer, which was supposed to drop on Tuesday, instead arrived on Monday. Perhaps the early release had something to do with it being leaked early, prompting a quick response from Rockstar and/or Twitter/X.

The mixup caused a lot of jokes as well.

Grand Theft Auto 6 has a history with leaks. Last year someone surreptitiously released chunks of the in-development game online, in what was dubbed one of the biggest leaks in history.

After the trailer was released, another funny thing happened: People started talking about Grand Theft Auto 7, which, given the lengthy wait in between GTA releases, should be a good long while, too.

Anyway, hold steadfast, GTA heads. You can watch the trailer for 6 in the video above.

The ManningCast is known for going in … let’s call it pretty strange directions. Peyton and Eli Manning’s occasional simulcast during Monday Night Football games will bring in folks from worlds of sports and entertainment who use the laid back environment as an opportunity to have a little bit of fun, which occasionally leads to things like “Arnold Schwarzenegger brought his donkey onto the show.”

Fast forward to Monday night, when Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa joined the Mannings during the game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Jacksonville Jaguars. While it’s a game that Tagovailoa could watch closely due to the way it impacts the Miami Dolphins — Jacksonville is fighting for the No. 1 seed in the AFC, Cincinnati has a shot of sneaking into the playoffs and potentially being a team Miami will have to play — he decided to go in another direction and show off his ability to play Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” on a guitar.

After responding to Peyton’s request for “Rocky Top” by playing “Sweet Home Alabama,” Tagovailoa thought for a second about what he could do. He then confidently said that he could play “Tears in Heaven,” and credit to him, that is certainly “Tears in Heaven.” Peyton tried to have some fun by singing stuff that happened in the game to the tune of Clapton’s song, but I will be 100 percent honest: That is second here to the fact that I could have had 1,000 guesses as to what Tua would play here and I would have not ended up on “Tears in Heaven.”

The team at The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has kicked things into overdrive following its relatively relaxed Thanksgiving week programming schedule. Last week, David Letterman returned triumphantly to the beloved late-night program, but the musical guests were sparse. That currently isn’t the case this week.

Here are the musical guests for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week (December 4 through 8). All performances are subject to change.

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit — Monday, December 4, 2023

Tonight, to start the week off, host Stephen Colbert will sit down for a chat with The Bear actress Sarah Paulson and musician Jason Isbell. Isbell and his band, The 400 Unit, will also serve as the featured entertainer for Monday’s episode. The group is expected to perform tracks from their album Weathervanes.

Daniel Ceasar — Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Mark Ruffalo will join Colbert for a conversation on the couch. As far as the guest performer, Daniel Caesar will take up that mantel. Viewers are hoping to hear records from his latest project, Never Enough.

Nicki Minaj — Wednesday, December 6, 2023

According to The Late Show’s programming schedule, Wednesday is set to feature two special guests. Both Nicki Minaj and Sara Bareilles are listed as featured cameos. Although the schedule does not explicitly state that Nicki will perform, fans have their fingers crossed. On Friday, December 8, Nicki’s long-awaited album, Pink Friday 2, is set to hit streaming platforms, so a surprise live set will serve as a cherry on top.

Sara Bareilles — Thursday, December 7, 2023

While Sara Bareilles is scheduled to appear the day prior, the show’s schedule notes that her performance won’t air until Thursday, December 7. As for the interviewee for the show, former representative Liz Cheney and Oath and Honor author will take up that mantle.

No Performer — Friday, December 8, 2023

As of today, no new episode will air. Instead The Late Show will re-air its’ October 25, 2023 broadcast in which both the band Talking Heads and comedian Mae Martin sat down for interviews.

Over the years, Ashanti has been revisiting her music catalog. The “Gotta Move On” singer is aiming to pull a Taylor Swift, which is to say hoping to regain the masters of her older albums. While reminiscing on the past, Ashanti happened to reconnect with a very famous ex, Nelly. Since their lovey-dovey Las Vegas performance in April, the pair haven’t left each other’s side. Now, their romantic party of two might be expanding soon.

On Monday, December 4, US Weekly alleged that Ashanti and Nelly are expecting their first child together. Fans online quickly elated over the rumor, given that the couple dated on and off for nearly 10 years. Given the news, it’s worth asking how many kids does Ashanti have?

The answer is: Ashanti doesn’t have any children. As for Nelly, he has four children of his own: two children (a daughter and son) from prior relationships and two adopted children. Nelly’s adoptive children are his biological niece and nephew. Nelly formerly adopted his niece and nephew following the death of his sister Jackie, who battled health complications from leukemia.

If Ashanti is indeed expecting, this would make for Nelly’s third biological child.

While we are still more than a year away from the actual release, the highly anticipated first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI dropped on Monday night — a day early after it leaked online and Rockstar chose to just go ahead put it up on their official channel.

The trailer introduces us to the first female protagonist in the game’s history, Lucia, and you get a taste of the story arc that has a couple robbing their way through Vice City, as the game returns to the fictionalized Miami streets. However, GTA VI will go far beyond the city, as it gives us a glimpse at the larger state of Leonida, clearly a version of Florida, complete with alligators strolling into convenience stores, redneck get togethers in the mud, and plenty of the usual debauchery in the city.

The official release for the game from Rockstar offers a one sentence statement on the game’s general plot.

“Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.”

The release date is simply some time in 2025, so we’ll have a full year of teasers, trailers, and snippets of information that will trickle out about the game until we get it finally in our hands in more than a year.

Dogs are constantly listening even if we don’t know it. Their little ears perk up anytime they hear something suspicious or tilt their heads trying to understand what’s being said. Some dog owners avoid saying words like “walk,” “ride” or “treat” in front of their dogs because they know it will get the dogs overly excited.

One dog mom decided to test her luck by holding a fake phone conversation while her dog was nearby and it was shared to social media by HrtWarming. The conversation was about as nonsensical as it could get because no one else was on the other end of the phone.

“Yeah, did you get the treats? Well, he specifically wanted peanut butter. Yeah. Peanut butter treats. Yeah because we’re going to go for a ride later,” She says. “I think we’re going to go for a ride and go to daycare. Camp. Yeah.”

At this point the dog is pretty invested in the conversation as he keeps tilting his head from side to side but as the random conversation goes on, he gets more excited.

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The dog mom starts saying some familiar names from either doggy daycare or playdates. He was fully invested at that point. By the sounds of the conversation, he’s in for a pretty busy day of eating treats, going to doggy daycare, visiting several dog buddies and his grandma. The head tilts as he figures out if he needs to go get his own leash are hysterical. In the end it was the mention of tacos that sent him running to the door even though he doesn’t know what a taco is according to his mom. Commenters thought his reactions were adorable.

“I love watching the dogs reaction.,and the way he move his head, so cute,” someone says.

“This is just too funny but dogs actually do know what you’re talking about especially your key words walk treats grandma and the dogs that she her does she knows and this is hilarious thank you for sharing brought my day up,” another commenter writes.

“It’s time you make him a taco! I love watching his face with each word he understood. So cute,” someone else writes.

If one thing is clear from this video it’s that he really likes a dog names Sarah and wants to try some tacos ASAP. See his adorable expressions below:

Dogs are constantly listening even if we don’t know it. Their little ears perk up anytime they hear something suspicious or tilt their heads trying to understand what’s being said. Some dog owners avoid saying words like “walk,” “ride” or “treat” in front of their dogs because they know it will get the dogs overly excited.

One dog mom decided to test her luck by holding a fake phone conversation while her dog was nearby and it was shared to social media by HrtWarming. The conversation was about as nonsensical as it could get because no one else was on the other end of the phone.

“Yeah, did you get the treats? Well, he specifically wanted peanut butter. Yeah. Peanut butter treats. Yeah because we’re going to go for a ride later,” She says. “I think we’re going to go for a ride and go to daycare. Camp. Yeah.”

At this point the dog is pretty invested in the conversation as he keeps tilting his head from side to side but as the random conversation goes on, he gets more excited.

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The dog mom starts saying some familiar names from either doggy daycare or playdates. He was fully invested at that point. By the sounds of the conversation, he’s in for a pretty busy day of eating treats, going to doggy daycare, visiting several dog buddies and his grandma. The head tilts as he figures out if he needs to go get his own leash are hysterical. In the end it was the mention of tacos that sent him running to the door even though he doesn’t know what a taco is according to his mom. Commenters thought his reactions were adorable.

“I love watching the dogs reaction.,and the way he move his head, so cute,” someone says.

“This is just too funny but dogs actually do know what you’re talking about especially your key words walk treats grandma and the dogs that she her does she knows and this is hilarious thank you for sharing brought my day up,” another commenter writes.

“It’s time you make him a taco! I love watching his face with each word he understood. So cute,” someone else writes.

If one thing is clear from this video it’s that he really likes a dog names Sarah and wants to try some tacos ASAP. See his adorable expressions below:

Mozart blew people away with his composing abilities at age 5. Franz Liszt played piano professionally for the aristocracy when he was 9. Yo-Yo Ma played cello for President John F. Kennedy at age 7.

Musical prodigies have fascinated people for centuries with their mastery of music at unexpected ages. Most of us have the same questions: How and at what age were their abilities discovered? Is it nature or nurture or a combination of both? Can prodigies be created on purpose, or is it something no one can predict or control?

While each musical prodigy has their own unique story, one family is giving the world some early glimpses of what an innate sense for music looks like in a baby who’s still in diapers.

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Plenty of 1 1/2-year-old’s like to pound piano keys to see what they sound like, but Gavrill Sherbenko’s piano play goes far beyond experimenting with sound. He and his chubby little fingers make actual chords and coordinate notes between his two hands.

At first, it might look like he’s randomly playing keys, but it quickly becomes clear that he is purposeful in his playing.

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Watching more videos of Gavrill at the piano, we see that his musicality hasn’t just appeared out of nowhere. Like most musical prodigies, he’s living in a musical household. In some videos, he sits on his sister’s lap watching her fingers intently as she plays and sings. In others, he sits on his mother’s or father’s lap as he experiments with the sounds of the piano, with or without them.

But sometimes he plays totally on his own, and it’s clear that he’s already got an astounding understanding of the relationships between notes and how to form chords, both from observing what his family is doing and from hands-on practice himself.

But again, even in very musical families, this kind of musicality at this young of an age is astounding.

The best part of the videos of Gavrill at the piano is how much joy and love there are in each one. This is not a Beethoven being boxed about the ears for making a mistake on the piano situation. Yes, his family members are teaching him to understand what he’s doing on the piano, but he seems to be enjoying it and so do they. A sports-loving family would toss and kick a ball around with a toddler; this family makes music together.

A nurturing environment meeting an innate sensibility is what prodigious ability is made of. And when those elements are combined with genuine enjoyment, it’s the best of all worlds—and a delight to witness.

Watch how Gavrill is able to play the solfege that his sister sings. It’s absolutely incredible, not only that he knows the notes to play to go with her pitches, but that he has the manual dexterity and fine motor control to play like he does at his age.

Assuming he continues to enjoy playing it, it will be fun to see where all of this leads as he develops his gifts further. As one commenter said, “Get the tuxedo ready!”

You can follow Gavrill’s progress on YouTube.