Ōdee🖤

trying to make sense of my life at this point. kindness is accepted.

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

We are madness, and beauty, and our own redemption

[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%.

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

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[Morty @mortic0n]

@MibshaD Let’s be clear that every person who is anti-abortion supports it when it becomes an inconvenience to them personally.

[Voodou Rose @DarealDrosee]

It’s crazy how they’ll take your baby because you can’t afford it but pay somebody else to raise it? Why can’t you just help the fucking mom? Then fail the kids that really need to get took from their parents kid done died or got beaten half to death after 6 open cases but yet still with the sorry ass parents 🤮 I hate America

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

@hbfromkc_ @stelenalight @_benjvmins_ The systematic advantages that lightskin women gain just for being lightskin ; pertains to mainly entertainment & business deals . Watch some old reality shows you’ll see the parallels

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

@instagram babes the app is acting funky please help the video of my baby brother’s first steps are on that account🥺

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

Okay so is anyone else having trouble with instagram or is it just me?

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

I feel attacked 😭

[Lenny 🎓✨ @Lendryx_]

“I rejected you romantically… but hey! Be my friend, or you never liked me at all” is a lil crazy. 😭

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

@shannonsharpeee How about be grateful that THIS is what she got caught doing? Being a teenager wanting to hang with your boyfriend in a PUBLIC setting? Affection? Jesus Christ🙄

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

@LRIGW0C @ThisStoryStore I was just bout to say😭😭😭 she REALLY don’t have room to talk we ALL SAW how she gets down

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

@gilbirmingham This is a hate crime. Somebody call the people PLEASE. Anyone that falls under a non-white check box is in danger and we need to put a stop to it

[Kellan Hendry @Kellansworld]

She’s 100% right though. It’s not about Palestine vs Israel. Its not about taking both sides. It’s about the normal civilians on both sides being killed in barbaric ways. It’s about basic human rights. No one should be praising either side for what is happening right now. It’s just a truly horrific situation

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

@babyyfaceariii @HBCUfessions Nah this the best reveal idea and I’m using it when it’s time😭😭😭😭😭😭

[The Quiet Loud One @ZayStylin]

@HBCUfessions Yup. I'm out like Goku when it's time to raise his sons.

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

🫢 this didn’t age well AT ALL

[daisy @rea1b1atch]

@bgcteainsta WHAT HAPPENED LEX?!!!

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

@d4eshon @liyahhhdakahuna This just made me laugh so goddamn hard😭😭😭

[Ōdee🖤 @_outstandingme]

@KO_Fights_ Why was he telling him to get down like he was a cop? I need context this is wild