Omar Abdulaziz

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.'

In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents.

James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's.

In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure.

Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat.

Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first.

The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@MarioNawfal Haven't we all established he's an AI account/person not even being run from Iran?

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@JamesWathland Groin surgery is coming bro.

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Tioté stepping out on the pitch at St. James' Park once again 🥹

Your dad would be so proud of you, Rafael 🖤🤍

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@OfficialFPL I've seen bank loans with less terms and conditions

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

I for one welcome the honesty. It allows the rest of the world to react accordingly

[England @England]

Class, @anthonygordon. 👏

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@TheMasterBucks @Socceroos From a fellow Newcastle fan and a Bahraini sorry Jake, that was a proper smash and grab by our boys.

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

THIS VIDEO IS THE REASON WHY THEY REMOVED BASSEM YOUSSEF’S ACCOUNT https://t.co/7MT8EJxJHd

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

Belal Muhammad gets emotional speaking about a two-year-old child from Gaza whom he helped bring over to America after his house was struck by a tank shell, killing his mother and fracturing his right leg 😢

🎥 @ufc #UFC304 #UFC #MMA

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Unless they’re Palestinian children, then it’s open season and you’ll provide the weapons.

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@Lowkey0nline Years of Hollywood and media portraying the death and destruction of people in the middle east as something that just happens casually made a lot of people in the west see them as lesser people.

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@FabrizioRomano @David_Ornstein Any idea on the fee involved?

[Pelham @Resist_05]

“The goal is to use Israel to wash money out of the US and Europe taxpayers through Ukraine/Israel and back into the hands of of a transnational elite (BlackRock). The goal is an endless war, not a successful war”…

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Greg, u exude Courage and decency 👏

What a speech!

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@EmmanuelMacron A good start will be for french companies to stop supplying a genocide.

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@FabrizioRomano This man is one of the biggest failure stories in football, they shouldn't even be in this stage had it not been to a dodgy decision against Newcastle in the group stages.

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@Nufc2Everything Shouldn't it be the other way around?

[Omar Abdulaziz @omarrasheed]

@NUFC We gave him premier league minutes and then loaned him to the scottish third division? What will he gain?