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[Matt Macauley @VisualAlgebra]

My 7-year-old daughter heard me say that Dolly Parton died, and got visibly very sad. I was surprised she even knew that name.

“You know Dolly Parton?”

In the sweetest timid voice, she replied:

“Well, I don’t _know_ know her. But she sent me books.”

🥹😢😭

[Briana Theroux @brianatheroux]

A huge part of my parenting philosophy is understanding that children literally do not have the cognition of adults.

And I think a lot of parents lose their fucking minds because they forget that.

They expect a 4 year old to think through a situation the way a 35 year old would. They assume that because a child technically “knows” a rule, they should be able to remember it in the moment, override an impulse, regulate their emotions, think about the future consequence, and then make the rational choice.

That is a lot of cognition. And little kiddos simply do not have all of that online yet.

So parents start assigning adult motives to developmentally immature behavior. They call it disrespectful, manipulative, selfish, lazy, defiant, or whatever. Sometimes it is just a tiny person with poor impulse control doing exactly what tiny people with poor impulse control do.

Your child is not a miniature adult who is inexplicably bad at being an adult. They literally do not have the capacity to do adult thinking yet.

And I’m not saying kids should have no boundaries or consequences. Obviously not. I’m probably stricter than a lot of people in that regard. But there is a massive difference between teaching a child the skills they are developing and becoming enraged because they do not already possess them.

The other major part of my parenting philosophy is that we cannot control other human beings. That includes our children.

We can guide them. We can teach them. We can set boundaries. We can create consequences. We can tell them what behavior is acceptable in our home and what is not. We can remove ourselves, remove privileges, or change the environment when a boundary is crossed.

What we cannot do is make another human being obey us.

And I think a lot of really ugly parenting comes from refusing to accept that fact. The parent decides the child must comply, and once compliance becomes the goal at all costs, coercion starts getting justified. Yelling, humiliation, intimidation, hitting, fear, whatever it takes to force the behavior they want.

I fundamentally reject that.

I do not think having more power than another human gives you the right to harm them into submission. And being their parent does not somehow make that less true.

My job is to raise a person who can eventually govern himself, not a person who behaves only because someone bigger than him might punish him.

Children need structure. They need limits. They need parents who are willing to say no and mean it. But they are still separate human beings with their own minds, temperaments, emotions, and eventually their own values.

I can influence that. I can shape the environment. I can teach. I can model. I can hold boundaries.

I cannot own another person’s will.

And I think parenting gets a lot healthier once you stop confusing guidance with control.

[BookemDano68 @BookemDano68]

@THEHORRORGOTH Absolutely, yes.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Gutted. The sensational character actor, Tim Curry has left the stage.
A truly gifted performer of stage and screen, his one eyebrow could say more than most actors entire bodies.
I am grateful to have the rare gift of watching him work, he made you better just standing near him.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Google Books is becoming a desert. Its regress is real: the knowledge we were assured was both safely stored and freely available, which led libraries and schools to get rid of their books, has retreated into the shadows. The internet of 2026 knows less than the internet of 2010.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Why is Google Books removing access to out-of-copyright books that it once hosted as open access? There is a good chance that the mass-deaccession policy of libraries, on the ground that "it's available for free online", will be one of the most stupid acts of modern curatorship.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

We are in big trouble

This is a high school teacher, she explains that her 15 year old students are completely lost. She says they don’t even know how to use a highlighter

She’s teaching American history and the principals of our country being established during our founding. She put the information into very easy to follow sections, because the students would understand if if she didn’t

She gave each a highlighter and said let’s highlight the important parts. The students couldn’t do it. They don’t even know how to put the cap of the highlighter on the back so it wouldn’t get lost

She says it’s so bad, if there is a picture in the book “you’ve already lost the student” they’ll just color the picture. She says one kid colored his desk orange

She says it took her at least 17 different times giving instructions on just how to use the highlighter….. these are 15 year old high school students

What is happening in America??

[CeCe @cecegkh]

Everyone seems to know the influencer’s name, but I want you to know his.

Landon Dunn.

Landon was a 20-year-old United States Marine driving home to surprise his family and girlfriend.

As a former military spouse, this one hurts differently.

When someone you love serves, you live every day knowing that call could come. You worry through deployments, training and every stretch of silence when you cannot reach them.

You know the worst is possible, but you push that fear down and pray they make it home safely.

You never imagine losing them while they are simply driving home to surprise the people they love.

His family thought they were about to wrap their arms around him. Instead, they received a phone call that changed their lives forever.

Landon was not just “the other driver” in a story about a TikTok influencer. He was someone’s son, brother, boyfriend and best friend. He was a Marine with an entire life ahead of him and people waiting for him to come home.

Alyshia Rushing also lost her life, and her children deserve our compassion. But having hundreds of thousands of followers does not make her life more important than his.

The investigation is still ongoing, and the final reports will tell us exactly what happened that night. Until then, I wish people would stop treating Landon like the small detail at the bottom of someone else’s story.

He mattered too.

His name was Landon Dunn.

Please say his name, remember his story and pray for everyone who was waiting for a homecoming that never came. 🇺🇸

[BookemDano68 @BookemDano68]

There are so many good moms out there.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A mother and son burst into tears as he hears clearly for the first time in his life.

[MsMarvelDuckie @MsDuckie0616]

Yes, please!!

[GrayBeardTheNotSoWise @GrayBeardPCG]

Well said and thank you.

[Fran Mallon @FranMallon1]

An amazing video of Dolly Parton singing one of her most famous songs in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Ventry Co. Kerry 🇮🇪 in 1990
How did Páidí pull that coup off
#RIPDolly

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Cloudseeding has left the conspiracy theory chat

[James Line @jameslineky]

“I don’t know how you’re doing on the inside, honey, but your hair is just holdin’ up beautiful.”

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Day 4 of blessing your timeline with heroic mothers:

Brandi Rowntree saved another woman's toddler from drowning in a North Richland Hills, Texas pond in June of 2021, pulling the 2-year-old from the water and performing CPR for the first time.

"He was blue, I knew the only way that he had a chance is if I did whatever I could do. My husband and I have four children. I just prayed that somebody wouldn't give up on ours."

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The way Kenny Rogers’ whole face lights up the moment he hears Dolly Parton’s voice coming from offstage.

I have always loved this performance so much.

[X22 Report @X22Report]

It was never Iran.

Iran is the proxy. Canada is a proxy. Ukraine is a proxy. Venezuela was a proxy.

Ask who's actually being fought.

[pdb @pdb5906tsw]

I think proposing wild shit like this (buying Greenland, renaming the gulf of America, etc) is the most important thing Trump does for America.

It's a reminder that we can, actually, just do things and the only reason we haven't done a particular thing yet is because we haven't decided to.

[ElaineStark @ElaineSstark]

Dolly Parton casi chocó su automóvil la primera vez que escuchó a Whitney Houston cantar “I Will Always Love You”.

La canción había nacido casi 20 años antes, cuando Dolly decidió separarse profesionalmente de Porter Wagoner, el hombre que había impulsado su carrera.

Como él se negaba a dejarla marchar, ella escribió una despedida y se la cantó.

Porter terminó llorando.

Tiempo después, Elvis Presley quiso grabarla. Para Dolly era un sueño, hasta que su representante le exigió entregar la mitad de los derechos de autor. Aunque necesitaba el dinero, se negó.

Aquella decisión cambió su vida.

En 1992, Kevin Costner eligió la canción para “The Bodyguard” y Whitney Houston la convirtió en un fenómeno mundial. Dolly escuchó la versión por primera vez mientras conducía y tuvo que detenerse: estaba tan emocionada que temió sufrir un accidente.

“Tomó mi pequeña canción y la convirtió en algo enorme”, recordaría después.

La versión le generó cerca de 10 millones de dólares en regalías. Dolly invirtió parte de ese dinero en un complejo de oficinas situado en un barrio históricamente afroamericano de Nashville.

Lo llamó «la casa que Whitney construyó».

Dolly escribió la canción. Whitney la hizo volar. Y entre las dos crearon una despedida que el mundo nunca pudo olvidar.

Ahora las dos nos han dejado, pero juntas hicieron que una canción de despedida se volviera eterna.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

White pill: The majority of mothers around the world love their children and are willing to sacrifice greatly for them