1. Our skeletons are wet.
2. your nose is ALWAYS in your line of sight, but your brain ignores it
3. When you receive a donated kidney, they don’t take out the bad one. They just add the good one in.
4. Your immune system doesn't know you have eyes. Otherwise, it would attack them and make you blind. injuring one eye can introduce eye bits to the bloodstream and basically give your immune system the knowledge of having eyes. then it might decide it really fucking hates that and attack your non-injured eye.
5. The quality of the male sperm is responsible for morning sickness, preeclampsia, baby’s gender and almost every single pregnancy related issue.
6. You breathe through one nostril at a time. Don’t believe me? Put your finger below your nose and try.
7. The brain itself has no nerve endings, so it can’t feel pain. That’s why patients can be wide awake during brain surgery and made to perform certain actions.
8. That ringing in silence isn’t silence
When everything is quiet and you hear a faint ringing?
That’s your brain listening to its own nervous system.
You are hearing yourself functioning.
9. You will never experience your own death.
You only experience approaching it… Then nothing.
Everyone else gets closure, stories, funerals, and memories.
You don’t.
You never know you’ve become a memory.
From your perspective, the story just stops mid-sentence.
Your child is watching you.
They’re watching you when you’re on your phone. When you raise your voice. When you argue with your spouse. When you drag silence for days. When you snap at someone. When you say one thing and do another.
And the part most parents don’t realise is that children are not learning from what you say. They’re learning from what you live.
You want your child to be respectful, but you talk to people with disgust.
You want your child to manage emotions, but every small issue turns into a shout-fest in the house.
You want your child to be off the phone and read, but the only thing they ever see you do in your free time is scroll.
Then one day, that same child starts doing the things you’ve been doing. And you get angry.
You ask “Where did this one come from?”
It came from you.
Most parents want their children to be better, but they don’t think the change should start with them.
They want to mould their child into someone different, but they’re not becoming that person first.
And if you don’t change it early, the results don’t stay small.
The shouting becomes aggression. The phone habits become addiction.
Then you’re fighting a grown child who was simply copying you the whole time.
So if you’re serious about raising a better child, you have parent yourself first.
Here are three things you can start doing today:
First, audit your own life. Imagine there’s a camera recording your entire day. Imagine sitting down in the evening to watch a replay of how you spoke, how you handled conflict, how much time you spent on your phone, how present you were with your child. Would you be proud of what you see? Would you want your child to copy it? If the answer is no, then something has to change.
Secondly, use the 5 second rule. Every time you feel like shouting or snapping, pause for 5 seconds. Just stop. Breathe. Respond slower than you normally would. That alone can shift what your child absorbs from you.
Last but not the least, replace one mindless habit with presence. If you’re always on your phone, choose one block of time every day to put it down and be present. It could be 30 minutes after dinner or one hour before bed.
Let your child see that focus is possible.
That’s how you start.
Because whether you accept it or not, you are their first and loudest teacher.
Hope this helps.