4th July❤️

Moonchild 🌙

[𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪 ˚.🎀༘⋆ @Laura_arma_ni]

When I put music on so that I can clean but I start doing shit like this instead

[27. @dimvji]

some people have zero desire to be seen. they just want a quiet & blessed life (me)

[Yetunde Omobolanle✨ @Divayetty1]

A moving woman (me) will have it all. The career that fulfills her. The love that steadies her. The properties in her name. The passport full of stamps. 🤞

[k @ysljennii]

I make ppl uncomfortable because I see through the facade, you're not a good person, you can play in everyone else's face but not mine.

[aunty dolapo💋 @dolapospov]

i feel so bad when someone texts me with so much enthusiasm and it’s one of those days i don’t feel like talking😔😔

[ຸ @fvckfemi_]

me when i realize i am doing everything i can to consider someone's feelings/pov but they're doing nothing to consider mine

[Weffrey Jellington @jeffwellz]

“Soul ties” but only one soul is affected okay. Better love yourself and get over it.

[Boluwatife @TEEPHTREND]

Asking people if they are OK when they don’t show up instead of assuming everyone is dismissive or a disappointment. They could just be overwhelmed by life.

[C H I E F, the NuriaStore Bookseller @bennetowuonda]

Did anyone else read dictionaries and encyclopedias for fun as a kid or am I just weird?

[Zoey @Zoey168102]

Normalize being very direct, very straight to the point and very assertive. A surprising amount of tension in adult life exist because people avoid saying what they actually mean.

[𝕊𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕪 @FromN5_]

I’ve never looked at someone being kind and thought “you’re weak, let me take advantage of you.” Like wtf is that fr

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There’s a Japanese saying that I love:

“If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember, trees lose their leaves every year, yet they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.”

[Mark Hyman, M.D. @drmarkhyman]

Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic.

Joy is a biological necessity.

[Big Tee @societyhatestee]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep.

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Marcus Aurelius was right. You will lose friends you will lose lovers you will lose comfort but if in losing them you find yourself you have gained more than kings.

[Word @umarfof]

If it is meant for you, it will cross oceans, distances, and doubts to reach you.

[refilwe🫦 @mofo_refilwe]

One thing about me, I'll survive. Complaining the entire time, but I'll survive. 😭✋🏽💀