Joni LaCentra

Christian, love Dogs and Horses and I have both.

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@ACTBrigitte Crass generalizations (e.g. about how you, an amazing "psychic" know how all NFL players feel about our country) are neither sound logic nor proof of an argument. Just goes to show how easy it is to believe your own hyperbole. Too bad so many US citizens can't think critically.

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@Mark10Barnes @Riley_Gaines_ OMG. A coach is supposed to be trusted personnel. Coaches should never use the locker room while players are changing to dress and/or to shower. The issue is that any boy/man can claim to be trans & automatically have more rights & protections than girls who then become less than

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@ACTBrigitte How fragile you must be to let others dictate what you enjoy

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@gillradcliffe @mwill68321 @JoeyMannarinoUS Yes, because surgical teams never wear masks in surgery (sarcasm). As a medic, I wore PPE if protocols required them. Masks reduce the range airborne droplets containing virus travel. You should see the amount of spittle collected on the customer side of my plexiglass barrier.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

"They're all about persevering and keeping a good attitude, and that's what I'm about."

Caleb Foarde, who has been diagnosed with cancer multiple times, had a wish to spend a day with the @BuffaloBills. A wish that the team turned into reality 🙌 @MakeAWish

[TheBlaze @theblaze]

Rep. Wesley Hunt:

"I can assure you that my four year old and my two year old daughters will not change in front of biological men. This is ridiculous."

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@MonicaCrowley My Uncle died in an irrigation ditch. Children drown in bathtubs. IDK what happened at the Obama estate. It isn't the level of water; it is the amount of water in your lungs. Drowning: death caused by suffocation when water or other liquid fills the lungs.

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@RyanAFournier It's outrageous that Generals didn't step up & threaten to retire/insist withdrawal was covered by security. This withdrawal was initiated by then President Trump sitting down & promising Taliban a date of withdrawal. I am not Republican or Democrat, I am for truth.

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@TomiLahren If you don't understand, I served my country and defended it so people had the right to choose to stand (or not), during the anthem or salute the flag (or not) when it passes by, then maybe you don't understand what freedom is about. Not all who served are able to stand, btw.

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@gtconway3d Wouldn't fight for his country, Trump got medical exemptions from military service. This just proves he is delusional as well as narcissistic.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Joy Reid admits she only got into Harvard because of affirmative action, just for anyone who didn’t already know

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@OliLondonTV It's devastating that people died in this manner, and it's a tragic loss for this woman. Compassion costs nothing. I can't imagine all the people commenting below were in the room when the decision was made about who was going, so there must be a lot of mind readers out there.

[Independent Women's Voice @IWV]

It's not transphobic to say that men and women are biologically different!

"My problem is the NCAA. My problem is the Biden administration pushing a rewrite of #TitleIX. That is my problem. That's why I'm here." @Riley_Gaines_
@PeteLeeColorado
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[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@RepMattGaetz You aren't really comparing politics to what Jesus did for every soul? I think you should be more afraid of offending God than you are desperate to make other politicians look bad.

[Angel @AngelStudiosInc]

Tickets on sale now! 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 begins in theaters July 4th. Based on the true story of a former US government agent who quits his job to devote his life to rescuing children.

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@franturo @ShannonSharpe It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven...but with God, all things are possible. If you pray for God to change a rich man's heart, imagine all the lives of poor people he could change. Prayer is free, costs only time.

[Taylor Silverman @tmsilverman]

My speech today at the Capitol.

[Jake Coyne @TheStatSquatch]

Jamal Murray & Nikola Jokic tonight:

66 PTS, 31 REB, 20 AST

No duo since the 1976 merger has combined for those numbers in a Finals game - the only TRIO of players to combine for those marks in the Finals since 1976 was M. Jordan/S. Pippen/H. Grant in Game 2 of the ‘93 Finals.

[Joni LaCentra @jlacentra]

@gtconway3d Anyone who doesn't realize Trump has an infatuation with Dictators is sticking their heads in the sand. Couple that with his "I do what I want" business ethics (or lack thereof). What could go wrong?