Nu Pho

I’m chilling

[Christianity @Christians_era]

Thank God

[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%.

[Glen Willis @willis_glen]

Happy for Tiago

These are the worst uniforms in the history of the franchise

[E @E_3O5_]

Say lamelo took his nickname to me in real life

[shunnii🫦 @ashantisearra]

sometimes we have to thank god for what he didn’t allow to go our way

[BHENtel @TheBHentel]

Always role players w/ elite sons never superstars

[Nu Pho @Greezball08]

@BigOxBob 😂😂😂😂

[Leon @MindMatterMoney]

Young men,

[Andy Wang🕊 @andysvibe]

You attract money when you get your vibration on money right

[Taytalktome. @talktometay]

This mf would have went platinum in the hood back in the day 😭😭😭✊🏽

[AJ @Ajmetax]

Bro to Bro: don’t do life without God

[Praise @tufpraise]

It's always the people you most expect

[🍊Elgin Barrett Eugene Smith lll🍊 @Southside_Gunn]

The Knicks had a Puerto Rican, a Filipino, and a Dominican win an NBA Championship.

That’s the most New York thing ever

[KAT @reallKAT]

never neglect the urge to pray, you’re about to change your life

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

I would forever retweet a black family till it’s my turn.

[R(R) @real1800splurge]

somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop. its very important that you see that journey through

[Mightykeef @MightyKeef]

If this were black people, there would be tweets all over this site about how violent black people are, and how they cant be in society, followed by an Elon musk "Yup" retweet.

[Praise @tufpraise]

Unmatched resilience and bravery. The best of humanity.

[buzor 🌴 @buzormemes]

i will get that car. i will get the house. i will get the life i want.

[Andy Wang🕊 @andysvibe]

If you do money affirmations every day and you release your negative thoughts on money then your financial circumstances will rapidly improve.