Jessica

You know my name, not my story.

[Dad Diet @Daddiettogo]

#Carnivore

[Dad Diet @Daddiettogo]

Intermittent fasting (IF) is a powerful tool to help busy dad’s fuel their body, and prepare it for the future. Here’s why you need to start fasting today! #fasting #diet #healthy #family #HealthAwareness

[Dad Diet @Daddiettogo]

#sleep #health

[Jessica @pbjd2021]

@Daddiettogo 10 minutes before bed….ask for an arm scratch.

[Nick Adams @NickAdamsinUSA]

Carrie Underwood puts Taylor Swift to shame!

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

What kind of tissue is removed in an abortion?

"Fetal tissue.”

Of a what?

"A fetus.”

And what is a fetus?

"It could grow into a live birth.”

Is a fetus alive?

"Not necessarily.”

If it's dead, why do you need an abortion?

[Mandy @MarindaVannoy1]

TikTok has been banned because of a threat to national security yet our borders are wide open and our country is being invaded. Make it make sense.

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

It’s the open call for cheating that really puts me over the edge.
It never took days to count votes. Covid was the excuse in 2020. Now they are attempting to normalize waiting to see how many votes they need to make up the difference.

[CCG BRYSON @BrysonGray]

The Bible.

[March for Life @March_for_Life]

A guide to women's rights:

Step 1 ... Let them be born!

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Joe Rogan, the largest podcaster in the world and life-long Liberal, went from going out of his way to not platform Trump to endorsing him in one election cycle.

Democrats need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves why this is.

[March for Life @March_for_Life]

A baby's body isn't the same as its mother's body

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

.@joerogan: “It’s just amazing how many people on the Diddy party list are supporting Kamala.”

@elonmusk: “J Lo was his ex-girlfriend and now warning people against Trump. How many people did she warn against Diddy?”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Vote to preserve democracy!

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

The CDC Doesn’t Want You to Hear This Conversation

KENNEDY: “The cost of autism is now a trillion dollars a year. My generation, I’m 70, you’re 60.”

BECK: “I didn’t know anybody with autism.”

KENNEDY: “No, we knew nobody when we were a kid.”

BECK: “I didn’t know anybody with peanut allergies.”

KENNEDY: “No. I had eleven siblings [and] 70 cousins — nobody with a peanut allergy. Why do five of my seven kids have allergies? The autism rate in my generation today, right now, 2024, One in 10,000 70-year-old men have autism. In my kid’s generation, it’s One in every 34 kids. One in every 22 boys, according to CDC. Nobody’s talking about this? These are bankrupting our country. It’s a trillion dollars a year just for autism... Nobody’s talking about why is this happening?”

[Carissa @njoyzgrl81]

Good morning.

Shared from a friend...couldn’t be more true

DAVE RAMSEY...

“This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, lives are never going to be the same.

I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone.
You can't justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind.

We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.

Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.

People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.

Universities that advocate equality, discriminate against Asian-Americans in favor of African-Americans.

Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.

Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.

People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.

After legislating gender, if a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.

It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquiries about it.

People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.

Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.

Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcomed.

$5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.

If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.

And, pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"!

Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it is racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.

We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.

Wake up America. The great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water and sinking fast.”

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

I don't lock my doors at night because I hate the people outside. I lock them because I love the people inside.

If our "leaders" exercised that philosophy toward our nation, we wouldn't be in the horrible shape we're currently in.

[March for Life @March_for_Life]

So, it's a baby when people talk about IVF, but a fetus when they mention abortion.

Changing up the name doesn't alter the fact that we're talking about children.

[Jason Helmes @anymanfitness]

Just finished this book - Bad Therapy by @AbigailShrier

This is one of the most eye-opening books I've ever read. It's a must read for any parent, any teacher, and should be required reading for any school administrator as well.

The book dives into trying to figure out why kids are having so many mental health problems, when there are so many resources devoted to improving mental health outcomes.

Anxiety, depression, suicide, etc are all higher than they've ever been with kids, even though their lives are arguably better than ever before. It just doesn't make sense.

A few key takeaways from the book:

A constant attention on how kids are "feeling" or "thinking" is causing negative outcomes.

Constantly ruminating on your emotions and how you feel negatively impacts your mental health. If all you do is focus on your emotions, you are destined to be anxious or depressed.

We incessantly ask kids how they're feeling, if they're happy, how their mental health is, etc, and this is creating kids who think they're fragile instead of resilient.

Trying to solve every problem for kids has caused a generation who can't do anything for themselves.

We (Gen X) were told to "suck it up" or "you'll live" or "rub some dirt on it" all the time. Many of us came to the conclusion this is "bad parenting" because our feelings were neglected, and we vowed not to do this to our own children.

Because of that, kids immediately over-dramatize everything that happens to them, making mountains out of molehills, and thinking the world must revolve around their emotions and feelings.

You develop confidence and strong mental health by doing things, not by thinking or via therapy.

You can't think your way out of anxiety. You don't gain confidence by analysis of your thoughts or mental health issues.

You gain confidence and eliminate anxiety by doing gradually more difficult tasks, excelling at them, and realizing you are a competent, capable person.

The non-stop attention therapy gives to these small, common emotions we all feel blows them out of proportion to their seriousness (not talking about genuine disorders here, just normal anxieties that millions of people go to therapy to try to avoid).

One of the best ways to decrease your happiness is to chase it.

Our society constantly tells kids they should be "happy" and asks them if they are.

Happiness isn't a state you should be in 24/7. That's not realistic. Joy and bliss aren't permanent states - they are fleeting.

Contentment, stillness, and being even-keeled are much better goals to aim for mentally.

The happiest, most well adjusted kids come from families with loving parents that have strict rules for the household.

This one really set off the confirmation bias in me... I feel really blessed we have 2 well adjusted middle school kids who do great in school, are very respectful and well mannered, and we barely even need to parent them.

But for years, we were very strict with them. Bedtimes, family rules, how we do things, etc. The in-laws and lots of friends thought we were totalitarian.

In reality, we just had high standards. And it's really paying off right now. I found it really interesting that strict rules equals happy kids. Makes sense, though, as kids need to know what their boundaries are.

Constantly surveying school-age kids about their mental health causes more issues than it solves.

Mental health resources is big money. Districts need to validate all the resources allocated towards mental health, and they often do that via surveys.

Asking kids non-stop questions like:

- Have you thought about self harm?
- Have you thought about suicide?
- Have you been so anxious you can't get out of bed?

Etc, etc puts into their heads the idea that themselves, or many of their peers are broken and cannot function properly in the real world.

It normalizes situations that would be incredibly rare at any other time in history.

There's a lot of other takeaways, too, but I'll stop there.

It's a fantastic book. Go pick it up and read it. This isn't an affiliate thing or a promotion thing at all. I just really enjoyed it, and it will further shape the way I parent moving forward.