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Anna Gilmore
@ColoradoMidwife
Midwifery and Holistic Living
Grand Junction, Colorado
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We have a different game that works well for us (I have 9 children ages 2-25). We call it the "no answer game." The rule is that they will politely ask me for a treat, and I will say "no" and then they will cheerfully say "ok" and drop the subject.
Learning to accept "no answers" means feeling safe to ask for more, because you know how to handle being told no without it being emotionally devastating.
My little kids love this game because it gives them power. Sometimes I say yes. And they learn that
1. it doesn't hurt to ask if you are ok with "no"
2. How to ask politely
3. How to "lose" graciously without drama
It also brings compliments when an adult watches my little child accept "no". It's not something most of today's parents understand their children need to learn.
I learned this game from amazing parenting mentor, Nicholeen Peck, who teaches at
https://t.co/s1juz5IPGL
This mom came up with the smartest way to keep her four young kids well-behaved in public… and it’s about so much more than just surviving the grocery store.
She created the “Compliment Game.” The goal is for her kids to earn real compliments about their manners and kindness — holding doors, helping strangers, being polite. Those compliments turn into a treat once they get home.
What I love most is the bigger picture. She’s not just managing chaos in the moment. She’s actively teaching her children how to be kind and respectful to other people, and that kind of training is going to shape them into much better adults one day.
This feels like one of those small parenting ideas that can have a lasting impact.
As a young girl I remember always being told,
“You can be whatever you want to be!!”
From an astronaut to a doctor, a lawyer, a vet, you could do it all. But there was always this pesky little condition: your dreams had to be big. They had to sound impressive.
Nobody ever said they wanted to be a mom, or a housekeeper, or a trash truck driver, or a waitress, or a dad, or a gardener, or a secretary, or anything common, normal, and ordinary.
You could be anything you wanted, so long as it was something grand.
You couldn’t dream of a simple life, of marriage, a home, and a handful of kids, because that was a “waste” of potential. That was “settling.”
So now we have an entire generation of people who think marriage, children and normal lives are failures, when in reality these are the single most important things most of us will ever have, or ever do.
These are the pillars of society, and yet they are the one dream we are told we shouldn’t have.
@AndrewZywiecMD This guy explains exactly what we’re going through:
A 13-year-old girl stood up for preborn babies. Her school tried to silence her.
After being assigned to write a slam poem about an issue she cared about, she chose abortion because her own family's story began with an unexpected pregnancy and a courageous choice for Life.
Instead of being allowed to share her poem, she was told she couldn't present it because it was pro-life.
Thanks to @libsoftiktok for helping expose this story.
We gave her the platform her school refused to. Now it's time for the world to hear her powerful message.
Together, we can build a world where abortion is unthinkable.
Preach sister!
Much of modern day suffering, I believe, is really due to our rejection of what was just common sense for most of human history.
Children need their parents
Marriage is more than just romance
Discipline builds character
Community is necessary for our survival and wellbeing
Truth matters more than our feelings
Gratitude is fuel for the soul
And that sex creates bonds
Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial.
Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise.
Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”
For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant.
The internet erased that in a decade.
Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth.
The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal.
Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”
That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance.
You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule.
Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”
The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command.
Four years of obedience dressed as education.
Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”
The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission.
The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test.
Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”
They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low.
The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement.
It is not. It is the floor.
A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the ones who never needed the assignment.
Nobody thought it was possible.
But on May 25, 1986, something happened in America that has never happened anywhere in the world before or since.
At exactly 3:00 in the afternoon, five million people stepped outside — out of their homes, their routines, and their differences — and reached for the hand of a stranger.
From the southern tip of Manhattan, where a six-year-old homeless girl named Amy Sherwood started the chain, all the way to the sun-drenched shores of Long Beach, California — an unimaginable line of human beings stretched 4,125 miles across the continent. Through 16 states. Across the Mississippi River. Through the shadow of the Gateway Arch. Past the Lincoln Memorial. Right through the gates of the White House, where even the President and First Lady stepped outside to join hands.
This was Hands Across America.
It was imperfect. In the desert Southwest, the line had gaps — filled in by ribbons and ropes and sheer stubbornness. It raised $15 million for food banks and shelters, far less than the $100 million organizers had dreamed of. By every spreadsheet measure, it fell short.
But no spreadsheet could measure what really happened that day.
A farmer in Kansas stood next to a teacher from Chicago. Divers held hands underwater in Maryland. A child who had never met a celebrity found herself beside Lionel Richie. An elderly woman who had lived through the Great Depression stood tall in the sunshine and said, without words, I still believe in this country.
For fifteen minutes, ordinary people — not governments, not corporations, not algorithms — physically held this nation together.
The chain may have had gaps. But the feeling didn't.
Nearly four decades later, in a world that sometimes feels like it is coming apart at the seams, that Sunday afternoon in May still whispers something important:
We have done this before.
We reached out.
We held on.
And the hand we grabbed? It was warm.
It was real.
It was human.
We can do it again.
Pregnancy is the one condition that makes autonomy impossible. It binds one life to another. It requires sacrifice, submission to the needs of another life that isn’t ours. And so it must be destroyed exactly because it exposes the lie that lives in the heart of absolute autonomy.
If you take a second to notice you will see that the arguments for abortion rarely rely on biology anymore. we know now more than ever, that a child in the womb is a living, developing human organism. This knowledge is of extreme inconvenience, so it’s been ignored, instead the argument now shifts and is focused solely on authority: who has the right to decide? And in the religion of autonomy the answer is always the same.
Me.
The autonomous decide, and the dependents now must justify their existence, and the right to their own lives. To be bound and dependent on another is now treated as a form of violation. Responsibility is harm. Sacrifice is a loss of freedom. All the things that gave our lives meaning beyond the hedonistic pursuit of self, are labeled as moral evils.
A woman that depends on her husband is an idiot.
A fetus that depends on the mother that does not want it is a burden.
A child that depends on its mother and father is an inconvenience to the pursuit of self
On and on…
In this framework obligation and dependency are now moral intolerances. To be bound to another without making the choice is treated as a violent moral offense.
And abortion fits perfectly into this hellish landscape. Notice how abortion is not framed or treated as an act of mercy, instead it is an assertion of authority. The right that is being protected is not compassion, it is control, and power, even at the expense of the life of another human being.
And this is why, abortion is not only permitted, but it is celebrated. It is hailed as the greatest achievement in the life of the modern woman, it is the core issue for millions of women, it is a true cry of freedom, the liberation that all oppressed women so deeply desired and needed.
Abortion must be declared good precisely because it feels wrong at a deeper level than any argument. It violates every single intuition we all have, and so we must be told on and on, forced into believing, forced to accept that abortion is good.
Wow.
Toyota released a pro-life ad highlighting Lauren Woolstencroft—born without legs—who went on to defy the odds and become an 8X Paralympic gold medalist.
Most babies with disabilities are aborted.
This is one of the best commercials I’ve ever seen.
BREAKING 🚨 Robert F Kennedy Jr just DROPPED this EPIC South Park Episode. Never deleting this app
LMAO 🤣
@SelfMadeMastery PLAYFULNESS
No civilization is perfectly level. Therefore, either a civilization is expanding or contracting.
Collapsing birth rates mean that most cultures are tending towards extinction!
Expanding is the only option for those who want LIfE, for those who CARE about the FUTURE.
Actually, I'm a Christian who doesn't celebrate Christmas. And so I often feel weird when people wish me a Merry Christmas, so I thought this was hilarious. Right up my alley. I know quite a few non Christmas Christians tempted to be offended when people say Merry Christmas. No doubt we're outliers though.
I think it's funny to get offended. You guys laugh your way through life. I have shown this video to do many people this week! And every time I need to lighten up I re-watch it.
@ThrillaRilla369 More than two pairs of shoes.
https://t.co/yIDTga3yet
I like your thinking @BskiMike22802 and I would suggest one major change.
Do this WITHOUT the government. Their goal is to keep people dependent and voting in more benefits. You work in the school system so you can see this already.
Please go check out https://t.co/KjKAE4hHR8
This is a fairly small program but it's making a huge difference in the life of recovering addicts. Programs like this used to exist in quantity in the 70's but they accepted government funding and then the government over reach slowly ran them all out of business. The government poisons everything it touches. If you're serious about your idea, and I believe you are, then create a program that is voluntary and self sustaining because the participants are producing services or products, etc which produces income to sustain the program.
The fight between Pro-Israel vs America First conservatives is heating up...
🚨 JUST IN: Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger DEMANDS the United States adopt nationwide, mandatory voter ID - and torches the Left's argument against it
"Almost every country in Europe requires ID and they make our turnout look puny."
"We would REQUIRE states to provide everyone with an ID."
All CITIZENS can easily obtain an ID and all states must be forced into requiring it to vote! It's NOT controversial. 🇺🇸
There needs to be more talk about this. Radical Islam is wreaking havoc in Nigeria, where innocent civilians are being targeted and slaughtered by its followers.
Many stay silent, but this needs more attention.
@ItIsHoeMath More helpful rules:
1-Grind the wheat yourself with a grinder
If that's not enough than
2-make it be a hand crank grinder
3-only grind wheat that you grow in your backyard and harvest it yourself!
That'll slow you down...
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