Tanyani M

Strategic Brand Communications

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This 30 seconds of footage is doing more for that baby's brain than any flashcard, screen app, or "educational" toy on the market.

MIT has the brain scans to prove it.

Rachel Romeo's 2018 study put LENA recorders in 36 families' homes for a weekend and counted everything: total words, child-directed words, back-and-forth conversational turns. The kids were brought in for fMRI scans while they listened to stories. The ones with more conversational turns showed stronger activation in Broca's area, the brain's speech production center, with the effect holding after controlling for parent income, IQ, and total word count.

The active ingredient is the trading. The pauses are doing as much work as the words.

Watch what the dad is actually running:

Vocal turn-taking. The baby babbles, the dad pauses, the dad responds, the baby waits, the baby babbles again. This pattern emerges around 2-3 months and becomes the foundation of every conversation that human will have for the rest of their life.

Joint attention. They're locked onto each other's faces, reading expressions, syncing reactions. Joint attention shows up around 9 months and predicts language development and social cognition for years afterward. The absence of joint attention by 18 months is one of the earliest signals pediatricians screen for autism.

Coregulation. The baby can't self-soothe yet. Its nervous system is using the dad's calm, attentive state as a regulation template. Every time the baby gets excited and the dad meets the energy with engaged calm, the vagus nerve is learning what regulated arousal feels like.

The reverse case is in the literature. Edward Tronick's 1975 "still face" experiment had mothers interact normally with their babies, then go completely flat-faced and unresponsive for three minutes. The babies "rapidly sobered and grew wary," tried desperately to restart the loop, then withdrew with what Tronick called a "hopeless facial expression." It remains one of the most replicated findings in developmental psychology.

The face is the curriculum. The pauses are the lessons.

[Tanyani M @Ms_Daku]

@Gabzee_M Zulzi already does.

[ray @papito_ray]

No amount of potholes can make up for electing someone who think like this by the way.

[Mandy @_mandyhusk]

The Woolworths DASH app is the worst grocery app in SA. They must just shut it down, we’ll buy in store.

[Ndabzinto @OMG_ITS_NDABA]

Elon Musk who has never
Built a school in Africa
Built a university in Africa
Built a hospital in Africa
Built a library in Africa
Given an African a morsel of bread

Suddenly cares about poor black Africans. Don’t make me laugh

[Deeqa 🇸🇴 @Deee_luul]

Elon maybe you should respect South Africa’s laws and acknowledge what its people went through because of colonialism. As someone born there, you should be more empathetic and understand the country’s history better, instead of trying to bend the country’s laws to fit your own interests!

[ABC News @ABC]

JUST IN: The Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role goes to Michael B. Jordan for “Sinners.” #Oscars

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

The fact that so many people don’t know what this is proves Apple really hides their best features 😭

For anyone wondering, it’s Apple’s motion sickness feature — the dots move with the car so you don’t get sick while looking at your phone

[res 🇿🇦 @msresii]

does anyone understand how much of a golden tweet this is😭😭

[Tanyani M @Ms_Daku]

@lunanqiwa @hi_ayanda @Crocs Those look deliciously comfy.

[Tanyani M @Ms_Daku]

Hi @WOOLWORTHS_SA It’s incredibly frustrating that you increase the price for delivery but your app experience just keeps getting worse. I feel like half my life is wasted just waiting for your app to open or accept payment or something else that’s wrong that day.

[Tanyani M @Ms_Daku]

@MorolongZA Yep. Spent R3.5k on it, saved millions.

[JB 🐻✨🍉 @JBfromDC89]

please let this exact scene be playing out in real life

[Tanyani M @Ms_Daku]

Thank you so much 🥰🙌🏾

[Greybeard @Episode88]

@Ms_Daku Happy birthday to you Tanya. Love and blessings always 🫂 ❤️

[Tanyani M @Ms_Daku]

@Episode88 Happy Birthday Ntate wa Remo 🎈 Hope you have a blessed day akere 🍰

[I am Chege @_James041]

Let me jog your mind kidogo. When we were kids, we watched a film called Gods must be crazy. In this film, the bushmen(the san) are seen chewing a succulent plant called hoodia to quench thirst and hunger. This plant is what the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of South Africa has been using to make slimming pills, the ones people are swallowing all over the world. In 2003, the bushmen petitioned CSIR, mtu aliwachanua, and they won the petition in the grounds that they are the inhabitants of the forest this tree is made. On 28th March 2023, they signed a benefit-sharing agreement in the Northern Cape, in terms of which the community was to receive between R8-million and R12-million from the sales of slimming pills. I read about it in campus. The concept behind calling herbalists witches was to keep Africans from herbal drugs so that the resources could be exploited for pharmaceutical companies.

[Nomandla Bobo @nomandlabobo]

Black consumers need to understand our buying power. When we spend intentionally, we influence markets, shape brands, create jobs, and build wealth within our communities. Our money has power and where we choose to spend it matters.

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[Apple TV @AppleTV]

Indulge in some Palm Royale this holiday break.

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