Lexi

✨NC State Cheerleading Alum✨ Insta: itsLEXIspeaking 2018 NCA Natty Champ 💍❣️

[Lexi @ItsLEXIspeaking]

"Don't tell God how big your storm is, tell your storm how big your God is."

[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%.

[Lexi @ItsLEXIspeaking]

@SydneyMariej Puhhhhlease 😒💀💀💀

[Lexi @ItsLEXIspeaking]

@SydneyMariej LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sydney please 😂😭 I said it with a smile

[tido bling @tiido_bling]

remembering i made plans when i was feeling extroverted

[Lexi @ItsLEXIspeaking]

@SydneyMariej Oh brother 🙄😒 Get over it

[Lexi @ItsLEXIspeaking]

@SydneyMariej I got you foreverrrr 🤞🏾 locked in 4L 💓

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

Big shoutout to Frederick Douglass High’s Class of 2025 Valedictorian, Adonis McCray!

Leader of JROTC cadets, National Honors Society, & Student Athlete Ambassadors — also a standout in the classroom and in cross country, basketball, and track. Way to go!👏

🎥- donmccrary1_ /TT

[Ryan Clark @Realrclark25]

Bruh you know what it is with me and you! I saved you the entire season on MNF. I urged people to let you be you. No matter how corny, how bad a teammate you were I had your back. What did you do? Invite someone on your show you know I don’t fool with to ask questions about me, and then hit me weeks later to tell me you’re gonna challenge one of my takes! You’re a phony bro. One of the worst teammates I ever had both on the field and in TV. You gotta do what you gotta do.

I didn’t attack your wife. I spoke on what you do on social media and Tv. Like I said. I met your wife and she seemed like a lovely lady that was worth more than the color of her skin! You be good bruh.

[bri ˚꩜｡⋆₊⊹ @ufobri]

went through a pandemic and now a recession all before i hit my 30s

[Lexi @ItsLEXIspeaking]

When you leave a well oiled machine, you realize how great of a system it was 🫠

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Growing old together....they already won at life!

[☔ @Whotfismick]

Me

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

IKYFL

[Lexi @ItsLEXIspeaking]

Business ventures & making money gets me so excited ☺️🥳

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

RIP ❤️ Professor Kiah Duggins was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport. Professor Duggins was set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall. May her memory be a blessing.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

I don’t deny the power of my father’s most well-known speech, ‘I Have a Dream.’

However, its power and popularity (with focus on its conclusion) have been misused to weaken its clear messaging about ending racism, stopping police brutality, ensuring voting rights, and eradicating economic injustice.

Why didn’t Pastor Lorenzo Sewell pray these parts of the Dream during President Trump’s Inauguration?

Because the inconvenient truth (that disallows embracing the pipe dream that racism no longer exists in this country) is that Project 2025 and some of the plans that his voters encouraged POTUS to roll out on day one are reflective of an ‘America’ that denies the comprehensive King.

That’s why those who quote Daddy out of context and without the spirit of nonviolence don’t pray using my father’s ’The Other America,’ ‘The Three Evils of Society, ‘Beyond Vietnam’…or ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail.’

It’s simpler to distort the rousing conclusion of #IHaveADream and twist it to push a narrative that authentic, compassionate work to prevent and stop discrimination is actually discriminatory.

It is much harder to distort #LetterFromBirminghamJail’s call to conscience to #Christians and its powerfully relevant teaching on nonviolent direct action, injustice anywhere, devotion to order over justice, doing what’s right, and disobeying unjust laws.

Who can validate inhumane legislation by integrating prayers about civil disobedience and freedom being demanded by the oppressed, both topics covered in LFBJ?

We need to get Daddy’s Dream right, while also realizing that, in his other speeches, sermons, and writings, including LFBJ, he provides the love-centered strategy and courageous path for realizing his Dream.

And we haven’t collectively embraced that strategy or started on that path. In fact, several of the Executive Orders rescinded by President Trump this week blatantly disregard both the strategy and the path.

So keep praying…but don’t pray the Dream in pursuit of false peace, which cries for unity while decrying inclusive and equitable policies and practices.

Pray the Dream in tandem with work for true peace, which, as my father said, is the presence of justice.

#MLK #MLKDay #MissionPossibleMLK

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Most people are children in adult bodies.

Emotional immaturity is a silent epidemic.

How to know if someone is emotionally mature: