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There are some chapters in a baby’s development that all parents know to anticipate—taking those first steps, saying that first word, doing their first backflip (okay maybe not that last one, but you get it).

However, as pediatrician Dr. Sami explains in a now-viral TikTok, there are also some common, yet not-so-publicized “secret” milestones that many parents might be experiencing without even realizing it.

Rather than adding potential stress, she hopes that this list might help parents recognize that there are plenty of benchmarks worth taking note of and celebrating…and to also not agonize over fitting into a finite timeline.

“So you have kids…which means that you’ve gone and looked at what milestones they ‘should’ be reaching…we’ve all done it,” she says, listing apps and the internet as primary sources of research.

“But I’m gonna tell you some secret milestones…cause what happens when I’m in clinic is that I’m talking to a lot of parents and I’m like, ‘Oh she’s probably doing this by now right?’ And then they’re like ‘How’d you know?’”

Profuse hiccuping is listed first, which Dr. Sami asserts is “totally normal,” followed by “screaming bloody murder for everything,” whether they’re “hungry, wet, bored,” and everywhere in between. “It’s always just like one setting, and it’s like, ‘I’m dying,’” she quips. Okay, so this one is much louder than hiccuping, obviously. But still normal.

Dr. Sami continues, “Four months is that stage where they’re super cute and smiling all the time, but they also grab your hair and won’t let go. And you’re literally bald because of it because they just pull all your hair out.”

Then, somewhere between 6 to 9 months, things get a little “weird,” apparently. “They start to shake their head all the time or maybe they start to stick their tongue out a little bit,” she notes. Though at this stage parents might wonder if these behaviors are normal or not, Dr. Sami reassures that, yes, they’re not only normal—”they’re a milestone.”

Next, at around 12 to 15 months old is actually when the milestone of temper tantrums begins, not age 2, as most people believe. Then, at around 15 to 18 months, “they all totally try to kill themselves every day,” she jokes. “That’s totally a milestone.”

Dr. Sami breaks then breaks down milestones for toddlers all the way up to early teens, which are as follows:

Toddlers

Becoming picky eaters and “selfish, unreasonable terrorists.”

4 to 6 years old

Talking non-stop and asking “Why?”…to the point where as a parent you might reconsider wanting them to be able to talk in the first place.

9 to 11 years old

Developing anxiety toward death and mortality. While this is normal, Dr. Sami does recommend talking to your pediatrician about it so that it’s easier to navigate.

Teens

Having a different circadian rhythm, like wanting to stay up later at night and waking up later in the day. And, as a result of the school system not matching this new rhythm, being tired all the time.

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Perhaps most importantly, Dr. Sami notes that not every milestone will be checked off at the same time for every kid, if at all.

“You know how milestones work. They kind of all go and develop at their own rate. Then some of ‘em kind of skip over milestones. That’s OK,” she states.

She also suggests that rather than sharing with other parents (or strangers on the internet) what milestones kids have and haven’t hit, which can elicit unnecessary worry, parents should simply tell their pediatrician, who can more likely be the one to address any real concerns anyway.

Bottom line—almost everything in a child’s development is a milestone in its own right. Even the weird and obscure ones. Odds are that as long as your pediatrician has given their thumbs up, you can simply ride that wild and crazy wave that is raising a tiny human.

When you’re little, you don’t understand a whole lot, mostly because you just got here a little while ago. Oftentimes, those little instances of misunderstandings turn into stories you laugh at when you’re older and have more time on Earth under your belt. For Nala-Joye, her “when you were little” story will be a bit more hilarious because she mistakenly thought her mom was an alien from outer space.

That’s right. She thought her mom, Shaakira Brandon, was an alien after she found her mom’s passport and saw a picture of space on the last page. One can only imagine the things that went through her head. I’m sure she wondered if her mom was actually her mom and if that made her an alien too. Perhaps she was hatched from a slimy egg and was awaiting her own alien powers.

Who knows, but whatever was running through her head was clearly scary at the time because this poor girl was very upset at the thought of her mom being an alien. But it turns out the girl, who is 5 years old, had recently seen “Men in Black.” I’m sure, thinking back, the mom wonders if that was the wisest choice for a little one with a wild imagination.

People in the comments also related to the girl’s horror at the mistaken “discovery.”

“My six-year-old used to like to change the month on the calendar but when we reached the end she freaked out and yelled ‘This is the last one!! There’s no more months! We’re all going to die!’,” one commenter wrote.

“I remember watching my dad sleep when I was a child, and then I saw his hairy arms and I started crying because I thought he was slowly turning into a monkey. I didn’t know what I was gonna do if I lost my daddy,” another person wrote.

Thankfully, Nala-Joye’s mom assured her that she is indeed not an alien, just a regular mom with a passport. Watch her reaction below:

Despite riding on the wings of a fan campaign that saw celebrities like Ryan Reynolds back his efforts to become the next host of Jeopardy! following the death of Alex Trebek, LeVar Burton did not land the highly-coveted gig. In a controversial move, Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards named himself the new host, but exited the position after just three weeks following the unearthing of sexist remarks.

While Burton has spoken candidly about the Jeopardy! ordeal, which he described as “humiliating” and not a competition because “the fix was in,” the beloved actor is at peace with the outcome. He recently had a chance to work with his daughter, Mica Burton, on Star: Trek Picard, which wouldn’t have happened if he was the new Jeopardy! host.

Via PEOPLE:

“Your failures are more important than your successes because you learn more from them,” he tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “Everything happens for a reason, and it’s all purposeful and perfect. So where’s the perfection in ‘I didn’t get what I wanted’? I discovered that [it] wasn’t supposed to be mine, but the process that I went through led me to exactly where I needed to be.”

In an example of art imitating life, Mica plays the daughter of LeVar’s character, Geordi La Forge, on The Next Generation revival series. The actor called the working experience “absolute bliss” and he also relished the chance to reunite with his old TNG co-stars.

“Mica’s grown up with them all,” Burton told PEOPLE. “We have spent so much of our lives with each other.”

(Via PEOPLE)

Today (April 13), Time magazine has shared its annual “100 Most Influential People” list. It’s a prestigious roster, separated into sections of artists, icons, pioneers, leaders, titans, and innovators. It features some revered musicians, including Beyoncé, Doja Cat, and Steve Lacy.

The “Bad Habit” singer who unleashed Gemini Rights last year came up on the section of artists. Chloë wrote Lacy’s blurb, lauding: “What I admire most about Steve Lacy is that he’s always himself — a good person who loves to make music. In a world where everything’s so contrived, he just wants to nerd out and be free, and that makes him a force to be reckoned with.”

DJ Honey Dijon wrote Beyoncé’s excerpt for her spot as a titan: “From R&B to house, gospel to techno, hip-hop to vogue, Beyoncé wove a tapestry of music on Renaissance that celebrated all facets of Black music, including the immense contributions of the Black gay and queer community.”

Doja Cat was dubbed a pioneer. Australian film directer Baz Luhrmann sung Doja Cat’s praised: “Doja is a true child of the internet, creatively plugged into the kind of social connection that I’m generationally incapable of understanding. She is personally connected with her fans, and that allows her to understand and feed back to them. She can’t be boxed in. She’s a rapper, a singer, a performance artist — she’s the canvas on which she expresses a character or an idea. There’s no ‘brand’ to Doja Cat. You never know what she’s going to do next, and that’s exciting.”

Former Nickelodeon Drake & Josh star Drake Bell has gone missing after last being seen in Daytona Beach, Florida, and cops are asking for any help in tracking him down. All of this appears to be happening very fast, given that TMZ reports that law enforcement is “deeply concerned” for the actor who was last spotted less than 24 hours ago.

Hollywood Reporter revealed that the Daytona PD declined to provide specifics regarding the missing persons report or the reasons why they are concerned. However, the police department’s Facebook page revealed that the actor, born Jared Drake Bell, “should be traveling in a 2022 grey BMW and his last known location is potentially the area of Mainland High School on 4/12/2023 just before 9p.m.” They added, “He is considered missing and endangered.” Further, the department commented that “this is a legitimate post,” which appears to be a response to Internet speculation of a hoax.

TMZ’s report adds background of Bell’s troubled past, which includes a bankruptcy filing as well as a 2-year probation sentence (issued in July 2021) following a guilty plea over allegations of child endangerment after a female accused him of exchanging salacious online messages with her when she was 15 years old, as well as allegedly, subsequently engaging in a sexual act with her. Previously, Bell also received a four-day jail sentence after his 2015 arrest for a DUI.

The Daytona Police Department requests that all tips be directed to Detective Jayson Wallace, who can be contacted at 386-671-5207.

(Via TMZ & Hollywood Reporter)

It’s been almost two years since Variety broke the news that The Weeknd and Sam Levinson were developing a drama for HBO. There was serious doubt whether The Idol would ever actually premiere on HBO after Rolling Stone published a troubling report on March 1 about the workplace culture on the set.

Today, April 13, the lineup for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival was revealed on its official website, and The Idol is slated to premiere in the Out Of Competition category alongside James Mangold’s Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, Kim Jee-woon’s Cobweb, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon. The 2023 Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 16 to May 27.

“HERE WE GO,” The Weeknd tweeted.

Yesterday, April 12, The Weeknd teased The Idol Vol. 1 with a tweet showing him in the studio listening to swelling orchestral music. “THE IDOL VOL. 1 [CD emoji] coming soon (double fantasy & jealous guy just a taste,” he wrote.

According to IMDb, The Idol follows “a self-help guru and leader of a modern-day cult [The Weeknd] enters a complicated relationship with a rising pop idol [Lily-Rose Depp].”

The Weeknd tweeted a clip from the series in response to Rolling Stone‘s bombshell report, which, among many things, alleged that working on The Idol was “a sh*tshow” and “Levinson’s scripts contained disturbing sexual and physically violent scenes between Depp and [The Weeknd]’s character.”

Watch that clip below, or watch a teaser trailer above.

Kid Cudi has always called himself “The Man on The Moon,” even going as far as using the title for three of his albums (most recently in 2020), but he really lives up to his nickname in the trailer for the upcoming Disney+ original film, Crater.

A throwback to the kids’ adventure films of the ’80s and ’90s, Crater follows a group of five teens as they take a road trip to a mysterious crater at the behest of one kid’s dad, played by Cudi. Oh, by the way, that crater is on the moon, where they live. The classic formula gets a cool sci-fi update, transplanting the usual danger-laden road trip to the future, when mankind has colonized the Earth’s moon via a massive dome on its surface.

Cudi encourages his movie son to visit the crater, far outside the safety of the dome, and his voiceover throughout the trailer seems to suggest that the point is the journey, not necessarily the destination. Along the way, the kids encounter potentially deadly meteor showers, play a game of low-G baseball — that home run hit is definitely out of the park — and experience some young love. It looks very nostalgic and futuristic at the same time and utterly delightful as a way for millennials to bond with their own kids.

Crater is just one of the many, many projects on Cudi’s docket for the year, which include even more movie and television projects, a tour, and a new album. Check out the trailer above.

Crater will stream on Disney+ beginning May 12.fall

The MVP of the Chicago Bulls’ 109-105 win over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night in the 9-10 play-in game was not Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, or anyone else who took the floor for Chicago. Instead, that distinction went to Diar DeRozan, the daughter of the Bulls star who joined the team and played a role in the Raptors going 18-for-36 from the free throw line. Diar was frequently heard screaming in an otherwise very quiet Scotiabank Arena when Toronto’s players would head to the charity stripe, to the point that she got her own highlight reel after the game.

DeMar was, unsurprisingly, asked about all of this after the game, and explained that she wanted to join him in Toronto because she remembered going to games there when he was on the Raptors. And while he did not want her to miss school, he eventually relented.

“I almost said no because she in school back home,” DeMar said. “She kept asking. She was adamant about coming to support and I just said that you can miss one day of school and come to a game. I’m glad I did. I owe her money from school.”

Now, the Bulls will head to Miami to play the Heat with the 8-seed in the Eastern Conference on the line. That spot goes to the winner of the game, while the loser’s season will end. And if the Bulls do end up winning, it’ll happen without their biggest fan in attendance.

“Nah,” DeRozan said when asked if Diar will make the trip down to South Beach. “She gotta go back to school.”

Chicago and Miami will square off on Friday night at 7 p.m. EST on TNT. The winner will play the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1-8 series in the Eastern Conference.

Season four of Stranger Things had one fan-favorite character who inspired several viral internet trends and even made long hair cool again, and his name was Eddie Munson. Unfortunately for fans, Munson was never able to graduate high school and was killed after a particularly gruesome battle with a bunch of demon dogs, but not before shredding one last legendary guitar solo. It’s the best way to go, considering. But the fans aren’t really letting it go anytime soon.

Despite his untimely demise, it seems like he might get one more storyline, this time in the form of a prequel novel. Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus is the upcoming novel from author Caitlin Schneiderhan, who is also a writer for the final season of the Netflix series, so you know it’s going to be well thought out and not just the type of fan fiction that ends up in TikTok edits.

Flight of Icarus will drop on Halloween, and take place two years before the events of season four. According to the plot description, the story will follow Eddie as he gets a chance for his band to secure a record deal…as long as he raises enough money. Who among us hasn’t had to scheme a little bit in order to make it big in the music industry? It happens!

Schneiderhan told EW: “The Eddie Munson we meet at the beginning of Stranger Things 4 is the protective shepherd to the nerdy lost sheep of Hawkins High. But taking on that mantle wasn’t such a cut-and-dry decision,” the author explained. “I’m so excited for fans to go with him on his journey towards becoming a hero, to experience the messy and uncomfortable decisions that led him to become the brave misfit we all know and love.”

As for Joseph Quinn, Munson’s real-life counterpart, the actor said he would “love to” return to Hawkins, but it would be hard since Eddie is really, truly dead. But you know what will never die? Rock and roll, baby!

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

Time magazine unveiled its annual “100 Most Influential People” list today, April 13. The cover stars are Doja Cat, Michael B. Jordan, Jennifer Coolidge, and Bob Iger. But within the artists’ section of nominees is also Steve Lacy.

Chloë wrote Lacy’s entry, as found on Time‘s website:

“What I admire most about Steve Lacy is that he’s always himself — a good person who loves to make music. In a world where everything’s so contrived, he just wants to nerd out and be free, and that makes him a force to be reckoned with.

From his performances onstage to his clothes to his lyrics, he’s open to expressing what’s real. That’s why people gravitate toward him so much, because in a time when everybody’s trying to be what other people want them to be, he’s saying, ‘I’m gonna make music — and if you like it, that’s cool.’ He has inspired me to be fearless, to trust that whoever my music is meant for will find it.

He has the biggest, warmest smile. And he reminds me that you don’t need to have all the bells and whistles to make good music. What you need is yourself, your ideas, and your heart.”

Chlöe has adopted Lacy’s unbothered attitude during the rollout of her debut solo studio album, In Pieces, culminating in her displaying nasty comments people have tweeted about her as part of her set design on the first night of her In Pieces Tour.