Across living rooms and group chats, parents are quietly bracing for the same holiday standoff: a shy kid, an eager ...

From handshakes to hugs, etiquette experts unpack how to avoid awkward missteps in a consent-conscious, multicultural world.

How to navigate when you should and shouldn’t hug someone — and how not to hold on too long. By A.C. Shilton Alexis Block was worried that the robot she’d built was malfunctioning. She was testing the ...

In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, one of the characters Sammy explained, “What I’m saying is all I really want is someone to hold me and tell me that everything is going to be all right.” Well, ...

Two of my good friends had their first baby late this past year. From the get-go, Baby was a cuddly little girl. (Or, as her two moms say, "We assume she's a girl, but we won't know for sure until she ...

We first learned about the Parihug at CES this year. It’s a stuffed animal with an accelerometer and motor tucked inside that sends your kids hugs remotely, so if you’re away on business or at work, ...

It’s no mystery that dogs love getting affectionate hugs and a lot of pampering, especially when they see their furry ...