Molly✨Sue

That’s that thique

[Molly✨Sue @WrecklessL0ve]

Future @99JAMZ midday mixer.

[That's My Michelle @JamelleMyBelle]

Somebody said that World Cup is just the US having a giant sleepover with the cousins we never see because our parents hate each other. 😂

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

the way she laughed in her face like that will forever have me in tears i’m sorry LMFAOOO😭😭😭

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I had one rule this week: no one plays on Home Court until some old friends and I get some shots up.

Who’s got next? 🏀

[justasistertryingtotweet @Igottafigh64510]

I’m crying real tears😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[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%.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

When your government tells you; "we're all in the same boat!"

[Boluwatife @TEEPHTREND]

After giving birth, a woman's internal wounds take six months to heal, 12 months for physical recovery, two years for hormonal balance, and up to five years to rediscover her identity. Relationships frequently fail during this time due to a lack of understanding. Be kind and patient with new mothers; they are facing more challenges than it appears.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we never question why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.

[Molly✨Sue @WrecklessL0ve]

I cried so much during this last episode of #euphoria omg

[Lisa @lisathebeauty1]

The tongue really is powerful. Speak your blessings into existence, manifest, pray.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Juneteenth is coming

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Keke Palmer was caught OFF GUARD when she realized her son had climbed onto the kitchen counter by himself in the middle of an interview 😭👀

“How the hell did you get up there by yourself? He’s getting so big, it’s so hard to know how he’s able to do all this stuff.” 🤣

[☔ @Whotfismick]

when i'm having fun on a Sunday and it reaches 6-7pm

[Marie🧚 @glitchu__]

How it feels to type in ur email and password with a remote

[Mak @mak_aura]

When kids' entertainment was separate from adult entertainment >>>>>>

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 DAMN.

Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:

“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”

She was SIX.

And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.

Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.

Just because of the color of her skin.

A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Have you ever stopped to think about how everything used to be created to generate peace of mind and accept those waiting periods?

[Maryam @hell_line0]

if a doctor who graduated medical school says you need something, it should be illegal for someone sitting behind an insurance desk with absolutely zero medical training to deny you coverage...