@FreddyLA7@katesbooksnooks Drive through Lancaster (heart of Amish country) and stop in Hershey PA. Spend a day at Hershey Park or at least their chocolate factory. Reese’s are peak American cuisine. 🤌🏻
New UK screen time rules just dropped — and they’re stricter than most parents expected.
From 27 March 2026, England says: zero solo screens for under-2s (except quick video calls with family), and max one hour a day for 2–5 year olds — no screens at meals or the hour before bed. Co-view everything, stick to slow-paced content, and ditch fast social-media clips and AI toys completely.
The science is sobering: toddlers’ brains process info up to 10 times slower than adults. Fast-paced screens push them into fight-or-flight mode — racing heart, surging energy — while they’re sitting still. Researchers at the University of East London say this mismatch can wire kids for more tantrums and emotional struggles later. Using screens to calm meltdowns? It often backfires long-term.
As a parent, it’s brutal — we all know that explosion the second you take the tablet away.
But this feels like evidence finally catching up with what our gut has been telling us.
How are you handling screens with little ones — strict limits, co-viewing, or mostly winging it?
Important context for the TikTok ban: the app’s adoption wasn’t a viral phenomenon and was driven by an unprecedented amount of user acquisition spending. TikTok was Snap’s largest advertising client in 2018 (I’ve heard the same is true for Facebook / Meta), and ByteDance was spending as much as $3MM / day in ads in the US alone that year, with $1BN in total spend.
FRIDAY SNOW!
Yesterday I had 1"-3" for most with a zone that could see 3+. I still think most inland see on average 3", with some 4". The area of 4"+ needs watching, not all in this zone see over 4, but only where the trough sets up. Accumulations will be slow to grow all day
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4. The Scale of Pharma Marketing
According to Kantar data -- Pharma ads are the news’ biggest customers:
1. CBS - 4/5 of their biggest advertisers are pharmaceuticals
2. ABC - Biggest advertiser is pharmaceutical
3. MSNBC - Biggest advertiser is pharmaceutical