By Lily Hautau, CNN

(CNN) — Have you ever seen a kid glued to their tablet at a restaurant while their parents enjoyed dinner or were on devices themselves? That scenario embodied the ‘iPad kid” era, but we may see a change as some parents are shifting their attention away from screens and toward real-world adventure and hands-on activities, according to Pinterest’s first Parenting Trend Report.

The report, published Tuesday, indicates that “families are thoughtfully designing childhoods rooted in creativity, intention, and meaningful experiences,” said Sydney Stanback, global trends and insights lead at Pinterest, via email.

To identify these trends, Pinterest combined data-driven analysis with human insight, drawing from more than 600 million monthly users and more than 80 billion searches per month, Stanback explained. The analysts did not just track keyword spikes but also reviewed colors, aesthetics and styles to understand how taste evolves.

Shifting toward experience-filled childhoods

Pinterest revealed a surge in searches for “screen free activities,” “family traditions ideas,” “no phone summer” and the “digital detox aesthetic.” These upticks signal that “parents are paying attention,” according to Dr. Brian Razzino, a licensed clinical psychologist based in Virginia who was not involved in the report.

“When you see dramatic increases in searches for things like sensory play, DIY playgrounds, or positive discipline, that tells me parents are actively trying to shape their children’s environments in a thoughtful way,” said Razzino, author of “Awakening the Five Champions: Keys to Success for Every Teen.”

Searches for “educational activities for kids” are up 280%, while “outdoor learning” is up 65%, indicating a growing interest in offline learning and nature-based activities. Other trending searches include environmental and wild animal activities, daily routine charts, educational crafts, cognitive worksheets and math activities for kids, according to the report.

Even at home, the study found that parents are searching ways to upgrade their living spaces into playgrounds and creativity labs, with searches for “DIY kids playgrounds” up 630% and “sensory play ideas” up 1,070%.
Other popular searches include interactive walls for kids, construction activities, pretend play food, and arts and crafts.

Razzino sees these trends as a reflection of parents’ desire to build core capacities in their children — resilience, curiosity, self-regulation, empathy and agency.

“These don’t grow automatically,” he explained but are built through lived experience. “The search trends suggest parents are looking for ways to build those capacities deliberately. They’re not just reacting to technology. They’re asking, ‘What kind of childhood do I actually want to build?’ That’s one of the most encouraging findings in this report.”

Balancing tech and real-world connection

The shift comes as many parents notice rising anxiety and distraction in their children. “Digital environments are incredibly efficient.
They solve boredom instantly. But developmentally, friction is not a bug — it’s a feature,” Razzino said.

“Kids build executive function, emotional regulation, and confidence through effort, trial and error, and real-world problem solving. If too much of their time is frictionless, parents intuitively feel like something is missing,” he explained.

The report also notes a rise in nostalgia-driven play and experience-rich travel such as planning road trips, family traditions and hands-on activities to create those lasting memories.

Years from now, most kids won’t remember the level they b

By Chris Isidore, CNN

(CNN) — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned Monday that current financial conditions and banks doing “dumb things” like taking on risky loans could lead to a market meltdown similar to the one before the 2008 financial crisis.

“There will be a cycle one day,” he said, “I don’t know what confluence of events will cause that cycle. My anxiety is high over it. I’m not assuaged by the fact that asset prices are high. In fact, I think that adds to the risk.”

In remarks to investors Monday Dimon said the conditions in the market, including record levels, could be cause for concern.

“Unfortunately, we did see this in 2005 and 2006 and 2007, almost the same thing. The rising tide lifting all boats. Everyone was making a lot of money. People were leveraging to the hilt. The sky was the limit,” he said.

“And I think today, the rising tide is lifting all boats. My own view is people getting a little comfortable that this is real, these high asset prices and high volumes, and we won’t have any kind of problem, whatsoever,” he said. “I don’t know how long it’s going to be great for everybody. I see a couple of people doing some dumb things.”

Dimon didn’t specify which institutions he was referring to, and assured investors that his bank, the nation’s largest, is “quite cautious,” noting that “we stick to our own rules.”

He also said that recent concern among investors about artificial intelligence disrupting the software sector is also typical of disruptions in the financial markets in the past.

“There’s always a surprise in a credit cycle,” he said, citing some previous examples of industries that seemed stable bets right up until they developed problems, such as newspapers, utilities and phone companies. “And this time around, it might be software, because of AI….There’s moving tectonic plates underneath it, it causes the industry to be challenged.”

In October, Dimon warned of weakness in the private credit market after subprime auto lender Tricolor and parts manufacturer First Brands both filed for bankruptcy following allegations of financial fraud. JPMorgan Chase later took a $170 million impairment charge on its loan to Tricolor. “My antenna goes up when things like that happen,” he said at the time. “When you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”

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By Jackie Wattles, CNN

(CNN) — Efforts to get NASA’s historic moon mission off the ground have stalled once again, as engineers navigate a new issue with the rocket set to propel four astronauts on an unprecedented path.

The agency announced Saturday that it had detected a problem with flow of helium, a gas that’s used to pressurize fuel tanks and clean out propellant lines, in the upper part of the Space Launch System, or SLS, moon rocket. Now, the space agency must roll the rocket back off the launchpad and into the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, for servicing as soon as Wednesday — a move that effectively takes the possibility of a March launch date off the table.

The decision represented an abrupt reversal from Friday, when agency officials — on the heels of a fueling test called a wet dress rehearsal — expressed confidence in the potential for a March 6 liftoff. NASA leaders characterized the test, which concluded Thursday, as a success, saying launch controllers had appeared to solve a series of hydrogen fuel leaks that cropped up during an earlier rehearsal in early February.

The helium problem came as a surprise, arising after NASA had wrapped up the latest wet dress Thursday. And launch controllers still aren’t certain what caused the hangup, though NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that in any case the issue must be addressed off the launchpad.

NASA is now targeting no earlier than April to launch the mission, called Artemis II.

“The quick work to begin preparations for rolling the rocket and spacecraft back to the VAB potentially preserves the April launch window, pending the outcome of data findings, repair efforts, and how the schedule comes to fruition in the coming days and weeks,” the space agency said in a Monday blog post .

NASA previously identified April 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 as potential launch days, though during a news conference last Friday agency officials revealed they were assessing potential dates in May and June as well.

When the mission does take off, it’s slated to carry NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day slingshot trip around the moon, marking the first time humans have traveled to deep space since the Apollo program ended in 1972.

One problem subsides — another emerges

There are numerous open questions about the feasibility of an April launch date for the mission.

Are there other issues hiding in the data that engineers haven’t yet uncovered? How long will it take to find and address the helium problem? And will rolling the rocket back and forth aggravate NASA’s notorious hydrogen issues?

NASA officials seemed on Friday to think that they had a handle on the SLS rocket’s hydrogen leaks, a notorious problem that has plagued the Artemis program since pre-launch testing for an uncrewed 2022 test flight called Artemis I. Because hydrogen is the lightest element in the universe, it tends to leak out of anything intended to contain it. And after hydrogen seepage plagued the first wet dress rehearsal for Artemis II in early February, the space agency worked to replace two seals around the rocket’s propellant lines in an attempt to better confine the fuel.

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La persona enmascarada que se ve en las imágenes de la cámara del timbre de la casa de Nancy Guthrie, de 84 años, en Arizona, la mañana en que se cree que fue secuestrada también estaba en su puerta otra noche, dijo una fuente a CNN. Es otra pista en la exhaustiva búsqueda que ya lleva varias semanas de la madre de la presentadora del programa “Today”, Savannah Guthrie.

Las fotos y el video de la persona enmascarada en la puerta de Guthrie, publicados por el FBI el 10 de febrero, se tomaron en dos días diferentes, y no solo el 1 de febrero, cuando las autoridades creen que fue secuestrada, según la fuente. Esto se debe a que el sospechoso enmascarado no lleva mochila en una de ellas, según la fuente.

ABC News informó por primera vez que el sospechoso parece haber estado en su puerta antes del 1 de febrero.

El Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Pima declaró el lunes que “no hay fecha ni hora asociadas a estas imágenes” y que “cualquier sugerencia de que las fotografías se tomaron en días diferentes es pura especulación”. Añadió que la investigación está en curso y que “las conclusiones se basarán en pruebas verificables y hechos comprobados”. CNN contactó a la oficina del FBI en Phoenix para obtener comentarios.

Guthrie desapareció de su aislada casa de Tucson después de ser vista por última vez el 31 de enero. Las fuerzas del orden locales, estatales y federales acudieron al área y pasaron más de tres semanas recorriendo el ingobernable paisaje desértico en busca de Guthrie o cualquier evidencia que pudiera traerla de regreso a casa.

El Departamento del Sheriff había solicitado previamente a los residentes del vecindario de Guthrie que enviaran videos desde el 1 de enero , pero centrándose específicamente en dos fechas : el 11 de enero entre las 9 p.m. y la medianoche, y el 31 de enero entre las 9:30 a.m. y las 11 a.m. El Departamento del Sheriff solicitó específicamente imágenes que incluyan automóviles, tráfico, personas o peatones, o cualquier cosa que parezca fuera de lo común o importante.

El FBI publicó un video y fotos de un hombre enmascarado y armado manipulando la cámara del timbre de Guthrie la mañana de su desaparición, lo que generó miles de pistas. El sospechoso es descrito como un hombre de entre 1,75 y 1,80 m. de estatura y complexión promedio, según el FBI.

A partir de ese video, los investigadores pudieron identificar que el hombre llevaba una mochila Ozark, según el Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Pima, pero todavía están tratando de identificar otros artículos y dónde podrían haber sido comprados.

Algunos investigadores han visitado tiendas de armas en el área de Tucson y en el video se ve al sospechoso usando una funda de pistola que, según el sheriff, “tenía algunas características bastante únicas”.

Además de la solicitud a los habitantes de la zona, las autoridades han registrado residencias, negocios y agencias gubernamentales en busca de videos de vigilancia para identificar cualquier posible indicio de dónde pudo haber sido llevada Guthrie, dijo un funcionario policial familiarizado con el caso.

Los investigadores continúan revisando “miles de horas” de video obtenidos del área metropolitana de Tucson, agregó la fuente.

También continúan realizando análisis de laboratorio del ADN hallado en la casa de Guthrie, declaró el jueves el sheriff del condado de

Housing costs climbed to record highs in 2025, as prices rose and mortgage rates remained far above pandemic-era lows. This kept housing out of reach for a larger number of home searchers and led to a historically slow housing market.

Redfin economists predict that affordability will begin to improve in 2026 and beyond. But how much does housing cost in Los Angeles, CA, right now?

Whether you’re a high-end buyer or just starting out, Redfin Real Estate analyzed home prices in Los Angeles across different price tiers to show how expensive housing is—and how it compares to the national average. If you want to find out how much you can afford, try Redfin’s Affordability Calculator.

All data represents the monthly average for January 2026. Redfin defines housing price buckets as follows: Bottom (bottom 5%); Starter (5%-35%); Mid (35%-65%); High (65%-95%); Luxury (top 5%).

How expensive is housing in Los Angeles?

• Bottom tier median sale price: $388,148
• Starter tier median sale price: $639,432
• Mid tier median sale price: $910,238
• High tier median sale price: $1,588,390
• Luxury median sale price: $4,494,644
• Median household income: $98,148

How expensive is housing nationwide?

• Bottom tier median sale price: $125,384
• Starter tier median sale price: $260,000
• Mid tier median sale price: $375,000
• High tier median sale price: $581,000
• Luxury tier median sale price: $1,341,493
• Median household income: $87,934

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