@luvblessingz A pediatric PT told me a lot of kids’ shows today are designed to keep children overstimulated with constant noise and fast scene changes. She specifically mentioned Cocomelon.
@luvblessingz They were supposed to be emotionally regulatory/teach emotional regulation, calming down nervous systems rather than amping them up, as well as educational.
We need to bring this genre back for the kids
@anishmoonka Once again back to Ronald Regan. This man really cut the social, self and economical development for multiple generations just so his buddies can keep their pockets full. What he had done to this country should be considered a war crime
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%.
No Goy should ever do business with this vicious Zionist jew that doxxed Austin Franco
His name is Gabe Einhorn and he runs VryfID
It’s time we started cancelling jews for supporting Israel and threatening Goy lives.
@David90shaw They did the same thing in Australia. It has nothing to do with protecting young people. It's only allowing young people to be exposed to Left Progressive ideology.
🚨 THE MASK HAS COMPLETELY SLIPPED.
Keir Starmer is banning social media for teenagers, but guess which app is magically exempt?
Bluesky. 🤡
They are blocking every platform that allows independent free speech, while leaving the ultimate left wing echo chamber wide open.
This was never about child safety. It is a highly coordinated plot to trap your kids in a digital bubble and brainwash them with pure establishment propaganda.
They want total control over what the next generation is allowed to think.
RT if you refuse to let the Labour elite indoctrinate our children! 🇬🇧🔥
@LaOximoron Joyera trabajadora como #ladyCJNG? No es mucha coincidencia que haya muchos líos de joyerías, narcos, judíos y lavado de dinero en México?? 🤨
When I was at Cornell university, it became VERY clear that most of the student body was Jewish
Easily 30-40% of the school is Jewish
Another 15-20% was Chinese (literally from China)
Both groups at Cornell were some of the most insufferable, hateful, and exclusionary people I have EVER met
I have no doubt that @AustinFranco123 here had the SAME experience
I don’t blame Austin for wanting to avoid them
The fact that it feels like half of the most powerful people on the PLANET are crashing out over a JOB INTERVIEW is crazy
What’s that old saying?
“Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable”