Nothing in my own parenting journey has radicalized me as much as the potty training subreddit. It is absolutely chock-FILLED with posts every day from parents who are like: "help! my kid is four and still not potty trained! i've tried nothing and i'm all out of ideas"
Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
The most manipulative but effective thing I’ve ever done in my life was when I read an article about how children moderate their behavior to protect their self-identity, so if a child believes he’s smart, for example, he’ll intentionally study and try to do well to protect his image of himself.
Anyway, I would pull kids aside with behavioral issues at church and tell them, “David (obviously fake name), you’re such a kind person and such a good listener. I can see that in you. Thank you for always listening.” “Little Annie, thank you for taking such good care of the babies around you. You’re going to be such a good big sister. Can you be in charge of watching Sally?”
They would ALWAYS behave afterward. ALWAYS. Worked like a charm. Morally questionable because it wasn’t initially true, but I kind of willed it into existence. Tbf, I did think that they had that in them or I wouldn’t have tried.
Will publish longitudinal results of this method once my kid is old enough to report back.
“I would rather not work with Jews. I find them neurotic and vindictive”
“Vindictive?! How dare you accuse me of being vindictive! I’m going to ruin your life!!”
Every. Single. Time.
> be 24yo Cornell kid
> some guy hounds you for 3 interviews you finally say nah I’m good
> later find out the guy, @EinhornGabe, is Jewish
> tell him your experiences with jews haven’t been great
> guy immediately doxxes you, leaks your full name and email has your personal life investigated all over one comment
> tags Bill Ackman drags in Palantir co-founder hands the whole thing to the media
> jew York Post runs a full article “antisemitic college kid refuses to work for jews”
> pure victimhood porn
> proven right in minutes
> all this because a goy said no thanks to working for jews
> the pattern recognizes itself
> the goyim know
The enduring irony is that we were never judging them for “the color of their skin”, it wouldn’t even occur to Whites to do that. For nons, however, the color of OUR skin is liable to spawn a lifelong, insatiable envy
Is it still antisemitic to say the jеws control the news, even after witnessing the jеws turn a single job refusal from one 19 yearold college student, into a global headline?
Like what the fuck is this?
So weird that after jews got involved with politics in Europe they began having millions of Muslims flood in and tens of thousands of church fires over the years.
Now the same exact thing is happening in Japan.
That's just a paranoid conspiracy though
If I was a black person, I’d be really alarmed at the incredibly rapid rate at which my people are burning through massive amounts of political and social goodwill
So a pregnant woman was abducted and raped while her husband went up the road to find a gas station to fix their broken down car. She was only able to give a description of her attacker so the police had nothing to go on, no suspects to arrest.
Mack and four of his buddies were driving home from a bar that night, they came across the car Mack got out and saw a woman asleep in the back. He got into his car and suggested they go back and rape her. This is according to his own friends all black. They said wtf are you talking about that’s crazy please take us home and Mack drove his friends home. We know this story because one of the friend’s father was a pastor. His father said they have to tell the police this story.
So the police on the instance of both his friend and a black pastor arrested Mack. He was placed in a line-up and the victim identified him as her attacker.
The rape of a pregnant woman at gun point was too much for the town to bear.
Whats funny about Hinduism…
Everyone has doubts of faith. Atheists, Christians etc. but nobody, and mean NOBODY has ever gone
“Hey I think the Hindus may be right on this”
Because their monkey blue 20 headed elephant God with poop throwing festival is so laughable.
Do you know a single non Indian who has converted to Hinduism? Exactly.