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[doma.ts @lugudugu]

My almost 4 year old daughter: Mamma, when I grow up I will be a Ma’am (teacher).

Me: Do you know Mamma was a Ma’am long time back.

Her twin brother (thinking deeply and almost teary eyed): Don’t be a Ma’am. I will miss you. I only have 1 Mamma.
🥺🥺🥺

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My 3 year old daughter on a Sunday morning: Mamma, I want to call —— to my home. But I will not kiss. I will show all my dinosaurs 🦕

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@SweetTexanRose Nothing funny here…the kids could have gotten seriously injured.

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@_TruthZone_ YES

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@irajdeepdatta Hahah how did u make this?

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Parents 🧵

1. Adorable and heartwarming

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@tweet_himanshu0 That’s mamas black honey 😀

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@Sattu94967722 WTF

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@AppleSupport @Apple Apple Watch sucks in reading stairs climbed!

[musk /Insights/new/ report 🚨🗞️🚀 @musk_c0mmentary]

Here is a wonderful little story

A young cashier told an older woman that she should bring her grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized, "We didn't have this green thing back in my day."

The young clerk said, "Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She gave him a firm stare and a hard grin and said “Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, and beer bottles. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over. They were recycled.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, which we reused for numerous things. We walked upstairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power did dry our clothes back in our day. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. The TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.

When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded-up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades with a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

Back then, people took a bus and kids rode their bikes instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles in space to find the nearest burger joint.

But the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing.”

The cashier stood there still and quiet as the old lady found her wallet to pay. Then lady turned to leave but stepped back and turned toward the cashier. She said “You have a world of knowledge in that little device in your hand. Pity you just use it to gossip, take pictures, and waste time. It would do you good to search a bit of history before you embarrass yourself like this again.

Forward this to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

How to make paper roses.

[bread @pizzapurist]

I’ve noticed it’s harder for me to talk about my feelings in my mother tongue & I struggle really hard to articulate my emotions because these are things I learnt from shows, books & online and not home, so I lack the vocab for it sometimes.

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@shareenpathak Yes

[Greg Murphy 🤓 @TheGregMurphy]

This Christmas ad for a pub in Enniskillen is better than anything John Lewis has ever put out

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@DanWuori Let the poor child cry if she is hurting…there is no need to regulate each and everything.

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@NetflixIndia pleeeaaase get more seasons of Trash Truck! This twin toddler momma has watched ALL the episodes of the 2 seasons for the zillionth time 🤪😅

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@AdityaRajKaul Who cares who is right or wrong or oppressor or the oppressed…people who commit such unspeakable acts and those who justify it should rot and burn slowly in hell.

[Harrison Schenck @FractionalList]

Amazing image below

A core parenting belief of mine:

One of the most important things we can do for our kids is help them learn the power of their imaginations

But you have to contend with the constant onslaught of overstimulating screens

Here's 2 ways we beat screens:

First: reading, every day, no exceptions

In addition to the obvious benefits of being a strong reader, stories in books help open up the imagination and broaden our kids' worlds.

They expand their ideas of what's possible. My advice is start the reading habit as early as possible, and let your kids see you reading as often as you can

Second: audio stories

As an alternative to screens, we listen to audio stories (I even create one for 3-8 year olds that I'll link in a follow-up post). We listen to them together with our oldest son. You can SEE him engaging with the audio in a way he never does with screens. You can see his brain working. You can see him filling in the blanks in his mind.

Whereas if he was just watching a screen, there are no blanks to fill in. No imagining, no envisioning. Just consuming.

"Imagination rules the world"

- Napoleon Bonaparte

This quote is more powerful than people realize

It's impossible to build anything if you can't first imagine it

Everything ever created by man first existed in someone's imagination

Imagination is a muscle. And too much screen time just atrophies it.

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@ianmiles What the hell is wrong with this Grandma…this is so heartbreaking and serious. I little girl needs to be rescued asap.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Fire crew spot this little man waving and take a minute to give him a Firefighter's helmet..

The smile says it all.. 😊