Crazed In The Kitchen

Don’t be fooled: I don’t cook. My 5 food groups: Cheese, chocolate, carbs, caffeine & Chardonnay.

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Neighbor just told me what a good job I'm doing with my kids. I'd believe him except they're all running around the house yelling "TITS!"

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@CleoLoughlin @AngelaKDunning @OrevaZSN I have that same type of cat!

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@LurkAtHomeMom Same here in the Midwest. But I set it really low in protest. I will only be kind of warm!

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@FixingEducation I’m a teacher. I volunteer to try to live on a representative’s salary. Imagine all the gas and groceries I’ll buy! Name brands instead of store brands!

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@NevinLawrence My son was born on 04/20. It’s been 18 years of jokes. 🙄

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@deloisivete I have two teen boys and a ten girl: this sounds 100% accurate!

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

These kids weren’t born this way. We did this to them. We handed them devices during the darkest days of the pandemic and told them it was “education.” We normalized constant connectivity as “engagement.” And now we are shocked that they cannot sit through a 50 to 90-minute class without phantom vibrations pulsing in their pockets.

I am begging you, please, for the love of God and these kids, let us return to what actually worked.

Give them paper textbooks again. Real books with spines that crack when you open them, pages that smell like 1997, margins where they can scribble their thoughts and doodles in pencil.

Let them underline, circle, argue in the white space. Let them feel the weight of knowledge in their hands instead of the weightless scroll of a screen. Hand them pencils, actual wooden pencils, and watch their handwriting slow down long enough for their brains to catch up. The research is clear, but more than that, my daily experience is undeniable… when the screens go away, something in them wakes up. They remember more. They argue more passionately. They sit longer with hard ideas. They endure.

And for the love of everything holy in education, institute a complete, bell-to-bell ban on cell phones. Not “in your bag on silent.” Not “face down on the desk.” Not “only for emergencies.” Banned. Collected at the door, locked away until the final bell. Because every single time that tiny rectangle vibrates in a pocket, it rips another thread from the fragile fabric of their attention. We are not preparing them for the “real world” by letting them live in their pockets; we are training them to be terrible humans, distracted, shallow, unable to listen, unable to wait, unable to be present. They deserve better. They deserve to be here, fully, with us.

I am not anti-technology. I am pro-child. I am pro-future. And right now our students are being robbed of the ability to think deeply, to read deeply, to feel deeply. Their eyes are tired. Their spirits are restless. Their minds are starving for something real in a world that keeps feeding them pixels.

Please. Let us give them back the classroom they deserve. Let us give them paper, pencils, and the quiet dignity of undivided attention. Let us save them from the very devices we once thought would save them.

Because if we don’t act now, we won’t just lose their focus. We will lose them.

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@travisakers Can confirm—it wasn’t great.

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@kemiklsupafreek @BridgetPhetasy I had the exact same thought at that moment.

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@TheTNHoller @PrincessBravato In Evanston, IL

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@MeidasTouch Seen in Evanston, IL

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@House_Feminist The ridiculous argument I had with my teens tonight about who would sit where on the couch comes immediately to mind….

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@alyssaleann I thought that when I read my son’s college application essays. They were good but not 100% perfect and I hope that made it obvious they weren’t AI!

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@alwaysedi3 @emmasarchivee My 7th grade daughter and her friends are DEEPLY immersed in the Twilight series now. At least they’re reading?

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@emilykmay I have a hair clip that is like it was made for my thick wavy hair. I had three, but I’m down to one. I bought them years ago and have never found them again. I treat my last one like gold!

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@TGL Stop

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@KellDA America

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@emilykmay My daughter was 6 when she hit me with her first “my body my choice” about showering. Always humbling!

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My Christmas tree has a tail…

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@JonHansenTalks Bring back Dominick’s!

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@weirdlilguys Zanzibar BuckBuck McFate (Zanzi) and Oliver Boliver Butt (Ollie). Also Tailypo (Po).