“Your job as a parent is NOT to make your kids happy.”
Becky Kennedy dropped this on Lewis Howes’ podcast and it really made me think.
Constantly trying to shield kids from hard emotions — like being the only one in class who can’t read yet — actually makes them more fearful and anxious as adults.
When we rush in with “but you’re so good at soccer!” we’re signaling that those feelings are dangerous and should be avoided. Over time, that wires the brain to run from discomfort instead of learning to handle it.
Resilience > constant happiness.
It’s so easy to fall into the trap of trying to fix or reframe tough moments instead of letting kids sit with the feeling. It’s completely counter-cultural, but it makes so much sense.
In a world full of fragile, anxious young adults, teaching kids to tolerate hard emotions might be one of the most important things we can do.
What’s one hard emotion you’re trying to let your kids (or younger people in your life) feel without immediately rescuing them?
Professor Clara Mattei just gave a masterclass on the coercion of capitalism:
“Capitalism has been imposed upon us by a tiny elite since the beginning. Liberal democracy is really only a superficial facade. When people rise up against the capitalist system liberals and fascists are best friends to implement austerity.”
She wasn’t done teaching! She also points out capitalism itself isn’t natural and that it took control of the world using violence by excluding people from the land. Prior to capitalism forcing itself onto the world indigenous cultures used a much different method to organize their societies:
“If you look at all the indigenous cultures it was based on circular, horizontal organization through councils. It was about caring for the commons and caring for nature rather than extracting.”
Professor Mattei just gave the world a much needed wake up call with this interview and outlined the need for humanity to look to its indigenous roots for how to chart a sustainable path forward!
Trump argues the US has been abandoned by its allies, but allies are dying to help. Also, the US needs help, but the US does not need anyone. All in one speech.
@TansuYegen A bit misleading – it’s not a jean made from banana plants, but a Uniqlo innovation using them to dye jeans.
They created a foam dyeing technique using cellulose extracted from plant waste, like banana stalks. This foam carries the indigo and cuts water use dramatically.
GEORGE GALLOWAY: LARGEST MASS KILLING OF SCHOOL GIRLS EVER RECORDED IN WORLD HISTORY
“The massacre of 167 girls, aged 7 to 12, in their classrooms at an elementary school in Iran is the greatest atrocity committed by the United States since the Vietnam War. Near the Strait of Hormuz, in a remote and almost unknown area of Iran, and for no reason that anyone can comprehend. Sixty others are hospitalized with injuries.
Later, on that very first day of the war, 40 volleyball players three full women’s teams were killed in a single airstrike. You may not even have heard about the slaughter of the schoolgirls. It is the largest mass killing of schoolgirls ever recorded in world history.
Yet no one is talking about it.
I do not wish to overstate the point, but pause for a moment and consider: if Russia had killed 167 Ukrainian schoolgirls, if Palestinians had killed 167 Israeli schoolgirls, if Iran had killed 167 schoolgirls, it would have been the biggest news story in the world for years.”
@EnigmaderZeit@daniel_gugger Ja. Krebs wurde wissenschaftlich vor 100 Jahren als kranke körpereigene Zellen eingestuft. In der Essenz geht es beim Post aber um Erfolge mit anderen bzw. einfachen Mitteln. Wenn der Erfolg stimmt so empfinde ich Ihre gut gemeinte Einordnung als Ablenkung.
Not sure the magnitude of this is fully understood: Israel has wiped out 2,700 families in Gaza, leaving 6,000+ people as the sole survivors of entire bloodlines. This is the result of deliberate policy, pursued with full knowledge of its effects. This is not war. It is genocide.