My niece has parents who keep their phones largely hidden so she doesn’t see them on it. She’s never had her own tablet. At four years old, she has the focus to sit through an entire two-hour film. She’s rapidly learning to read. She loves Alice, Harry Potter, A Christmas Carol.
Our children are a blessing, but they were never meant to carry our identity. God trusted us to guide them, not depend on them for our worth. Raise them, release them, and trust that the same God who kept you will keep them too.❤️
Gabor Maté delivered this raw, urgent wake-up call to parents:
“When your kids spend the whole day at school and with peers, you have to win them back every single evening.”
He doesn’t sugarcoat it:
Quality time isn’t homework nagging or phone scrolling.
It’s real presence — full attention, eye contact, genuine connection — to rebuild the bond that gets eroded by hours apart.
“You can’t assume they’re your kids just because they’re your kids. You have to bring them under your wing.”
In a world that constantly pulls kids in every direction, Maté reminds us:
The most powerful thing you can give them isn’t money, gadgets, or lectures — it’s you, undivided.
Parents: How do you “win back” your kids at the end of the day — and does this message still hit home for you?
I find it very interesting Spielberg is releasing Disclosure Day and Mel Gibson is releasing Resurrection at the same time we have government alien Disclosure and a self proclaimed holy war in the middle east. Maybe it's just me but this all feels so scripted.
The biggest lie society sells us is that women are the "emotional" gender and men are the "logical" ones. When you actually look at the dating market, the reality is the exact opposite.
Men are the true romantics. Women are the pragmatists.
A successful man, a CEO, a lawyer, a doctor will happily marry a woman who works as a cashier, a waitress, or is completely unemployed. He doesn't care about her status, her network, or her bank account. He marries her simply because she brings him peace, she is kind, and she makes him smile.
He loves her for who she is, not what she can do for him.
Now flip it. Ask a successful woman to marry a kind, loving, loyal man who works as a cashier.
The answer is almost always a hard "No."
Suddenly, "love" isn't enough. Suddenly, she needs "ambition." She needs "security." She needs a man on her level or higher.
A woman rarely falls in love with a man’s soul; she falls in love with his trajectory. She loves what he can provide, where he can take her, and the lifestyle he unlocks.
Men grow up thinking love is a fairy tale. They project their own capacity for unconditional love onto women. They think, "If I give her my heart, she will have my back."
They learn the hard way that female love is performance-based. The moment he loses the job, the moment the confidence wavers, or the moment he stops being "useful," the "romance" evaporates.
We call men "dogs" and "players," but men are the only ones willing to bet their entire lives on a partner who brings nothing to the table but her presence. Women love with a calculator in their hand. Men love with their eyes closed. And that is exactly why men are the ones who get destroyed they are trying to play a game of hearts with a gender that is playing a game of chess.
Yesterday was the last day of the year for the snake.
Jessie Jackson died today
Beginning of Ramadan & Year of the Fire Horse 🐎
New era. Old guards done for.