Janet McMahen

🇨🇦Mom, wife, psychotherapist. In that order. Opinionated. BLM. Every child matters. She/her

[Michelle 🇺🇸🦅 @Michell71078349]

Bravo my fellow Americans

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Professors are leaving the United States.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Under Trump, America has become a giant man-baby seeking constant emotional affirmation from everybody

This is some seriously soft shit right here, and everyone reading this knows it, including Trump voters

Geopolitics is a rough business, and this *begging for thanks* ain't it

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

America is a TV show, bub. That's all that's left.

[Dean from Winnipeg @Dean_Winnipeg]

Instead of a “carbon tax” election we can have a “security clearance” election.

Won’t that be fun, Pierre?

[Dow @mark_dow]

Harris rn killing a baby in his 78th year

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

Read the article if you can. I still have a bad taste in my mouth.

So our government is going to look at "regulating the regulators" by legislation.

Let me comment a bit on the MD aspect of this. I am not speaking for the CPSA - but I have sat on their council. /1

[Tarik Endale | ታሪክ እንዳለ @Tarik_Endale]

American Psychological Association (@APA) Statement Calling for an Immediate, Permanent, and Comprehensive Ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza Conflict
https://t.co/TxzTQVjgIC

[Trey Petty @Lotp3]

Not a Drag Queen.

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

[Parachutes For Pets @ParachutesP]

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[Janet McMahen @ShrinkRap66]

@washingtonpost The

[Janet McMahen @ShrinkRap66]

@mavisclare @fitterhappierAJ 💯 need more DA. 👏 Metaphors We Live By 👏

[Rakhi Pancholi @pancholi_rakhi]

Today an Alberta lawyer argued that requiring lawyers to take an indigenous cultural course was the same as forcing indigenous children into residential schools and I’ve never heard a more powerful argument for requiring lawyers to take an indigenous cultural course. #ableg

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

Makes me want to dance!

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

A SWAT team was called to Heights High School in Houston Texas today, which went classroom to classroom to search for a potential shooter. But please tell me more about how masks, real history, and books about a kid with two dads are traumatizing our kids.

[Janet McMahen @ShrinkRap66]

@FionaMattatall I have a blurry back bumper of the bus as it pulled away