it was so crazy being friends with boys growing up and watching them reinvent their entire personality when middle school/high school hit and turn into an evil person
Hot take but I think psychiatrists should order a full hormone panel before diagnosing mental health conditions and putting people on psych meds after one session.
Brush your child's teeth. Clean your child's ears. Bathe your child. Moisturize your child's skin. Do your child’s hair. Dress your child neatly in clean clothes. Read to your child. Feed your child nutritious meals. Take your child to their appointments. Take your child outside. Stay involved in your child’s education. Put your children FIRST. A lot of people always claim to want kids but can’t even keep up with the basic bare minimum it takes to care for a child(ren).
There is someone sleeping under me on the other side of the earth They are tossing and turning and I find it very disruptive like a pea under many mattresses
For thousands of years, babies slept with their mothers. When they cried, they were attended to. Then two men came along: Dr. Holt and John B. Watson. They said babies should be trained. That babies had to fit the assembly line schedules of their parents. "Newborns must cry to expand their lungs," they claimed. "Simply let them cry it out." And that's how the "cry it out" sleep training method was born. Watson treated babies like experiments. "Never hug or kiss your child," he wrote. "Shake hands with them in the morning." After all, mothers needed rest, to attend to their husbands and households. Watson had four children. Three attempted suicide. One succeeded. And we still follow it today. Because once you convince a mother to ignore her baby's cries, you've broken something primal.
The cultural consciousness would improve if we stopped saying "pregnant" and went back to saying "with child". We need to retrain the collective subconscious through discourse that it is actually a child, your child, not a clinical condition.
for centuries literature was obsessed with loves that consumed people whole. now everyone wants healthy relationships. whatever happened to devotion, obsession, possessiveness, the desire to devour someone’s body and soul? what the hell is all this healing shit anyway
I'm having the most peaceful crash out of my life right now... like I'm going insane, but also just chilling and vibing. I'm stressed about a bunch of stuff, but at the same time I'm not. Idk how to explain it.
Want to know what your toddler actually needs from you?
- A voice that means something
- Consequences that arrive immediately
- Commands that are always enforced
- A father whose discipline doesn't depend on his feelings (anger, impatience)
- A mom who doesn't ask a one-year-old to manage the mom's emotions. ("How do you think that makes mommy feel????")
- Parents who literally just follow through on what they say
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
“Public opinion is gradually being shaped and conditioned by polarizing media narratives, which are often amplified by algorithms that prioritize conflict and confrontation.” -Pope Leo
The pope just exposed the entire grifting social media influencer class