Delectable Darlooney

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[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

♥️😭🥹

[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%.

[☔ @Whotfismick]

me realizing i am handling a situation better than my old self would have

[𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐢✰ @_timiszn]

I know people talk shit behind my back.
I'm not stupid, i just don't care.

[Delectable Darlooney @__KoriMo]

I met a black cowboy 🫣🫠😫😍

[Miss Moon 🌙 @NoMoSUCKERsh_t]

see back in the OG twitter days we interacted w each other. niggas to cool na lol

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Billionares are so weırd. what are you saving up for?? helł??

[Softboy☄️ @softboywin]

I got laid off yesterday from a job I really liked, for people I really liked. Just a reminder that you’re disposable as soon as they decide you are. Stop working late. Stop reading emails after hours. Stop working on weekends. A job is income to live your life, not your life.

[𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲'𝐨𝐟'𝐆𝐨𝐝💦 @Champagnediet1]

I regret to inform you that true intimacy is built over time and through the repair of conflict

[Creole_Pisces🫶🏼 ♓️ @creole_pisces22]

Some of y’all wouldn’t understand!!

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

My greatest disappointment as an adult was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

[☔ @Whotfismick]

when people think you're ignoring them but life got you like this:

[kat @yslnadi]

when you finally understand that it didn't work because you would have hated that life

[yanna @sheinhamoodz]

me in public regretting coming out

[Delectable Darlooney @__KoriMo]

I tip ANYBODY who does a service for me. It’s a symbol of gratitude for your time. Also I’m a service industry worker and I knowwwww how this shit is. I will never not tip. Even if the service is bad, I’ll give much less than I would if the service was good. But I’ll never not

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Ladies… do you tip your hairstylist?

[Jessy_szn💕 @Astro_jessie]

Me sensing an opportunity to randomly sing a song mid conversation based off words you said

[Delectable Darlooney @__KoriMo]

Easy money