Never forget that your presence is a blessing and your absence is always heavily felt. You are a once in a lifetime opportunity and anyone who meets you is lucky to have you in their life. You are the prize.
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%.
Silence means that it’s working. A lot of you get so bent up by silence especially when it comes to an SP and are quick to assume that it’s “not working.” Meanwhile everything is happening, it’s just not visible or in front of you at the moment. When you think that it’s too quiet, that is when everything changes. That is when your full manifestation will smack you in the face.
"Iran has agreed to never have a Nuclear Weapon!"
President Trump said Iran has agreed to permanently forgo nuclear weapons and pushed back on reports that the U.S. would pay Iran $300 million as part of the deal.
The statement comes as the administration touts a breakthrough agreement aimed at ending the conflict with Iran and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
WOW: 🇰🇷 South Korea is launching a new Top-Tier visa to fight low fertility rate and the aging population.
They want over 1,000 skilled professionals for tech jobs offering flexible work and quick permanent residency in 1 year.
Has Carmelo Anthony’s legacy officially been erased? 😢
🔸Nikola Jokić took his Denver number
🔸LaMelo Ball took his nickname
🔸Kevin Durant took his Olympics record
🔸James Harden took his NBA top 10 scoring spot
🔸Jalen Brunson has taken New York
Pay attention to how your energy shifts when you root deeper into devotion. As you call your power back from unfulfilling experiences, misalignment, closed doors, rejection, and the spaces that no longer honor your becoming, Spirit levels you up in the most beautiful ways.
Your focus returns to what truly matters. Your heart softens. Your skin glows. Your discernment gets stronger. Your capacity to receive expands. There is abundance awaiting you on the other side of redirection. Lean into the pivot and trust the unfolding.