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[fuze * @fuzetone]

leaving things, people and situations in the past and accepting things for what they are is very freeing.

thankful for the wilderness

[fuze * @fuzetone]

masturbating to yourself is mental illness to the 3rd degree.

you need help. preferably professional

[fuze * @fuzetone]

I was disappointed that they gave us another guest episode today but honestly Ron Taylor was great. (pls no more guest episodes unless the guest is someone we all want tho)

[fuze * @fuzetone]

@alishathagoat you know ball 🤝

[fuze * @fuzetone]

how Kyle Dion was tryna walk in the studio

[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%.

[𝑁𝑎𝑑𝑖. @luvblessingz]

We didn’t realize it then, but kids’ shows used to be this calm on purpose.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

Don’t lose your creativity chasing financial stability.

[fuze * @fuzetone]

@mellymellz_____ “Give it to me baby!”

[♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘 @fw_naetoblaq]

Me going to bed knowing the Lord has kept me, and he will never leave me.

[27. @dimvji]

you just have to get really good at continuing

[fuze * @fuzetone]

we need a Checking In episode with @RayJ 🫡

[fuze * @fuzetone]

there’s times for working hard
there’s times for rest

[fuze * @fuzetone]

@Jay_Wats_ man like fuze don’t play Jay 🦾💯

[fuze * @fuzetone]

big body 🦾 ++

[fuze * @fuzetone]

can’t lie, this year has been a year of growth, uncertainty and feeling like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel but hope in the Lord and replacing lies with truth has kept me afloat.

I’m blessed beyond my own belief

[fuze * @fuzetone]

after hearing Mal say he’d be on Drake’s side if Jay and Drake went at it,

Firm Friends has a whole different meaning to me now *pause*

[Lammie_Art @Lammie_Art01]

I fell in love with this quote recently:
“An inch of movement is better than a mile of intentions”.

[fuze * @fuzetone]

@Heinzman41499 @five_tokyo @realDave1984 @sola_chad LOL my bad sir 🤝