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@BilliamFour @rystrave Do you understand what a burrito is?

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I agree. People don’t realize how truly horrific these conditions are or that brain tumors can be so similar to Alzheimer’s. My mother died of brain cancer and the only way to come close describing it to people is by likening it to Alzheimer’s since more people have had experience with that. Just truly living nightmare scenarios.

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@docksOFFICIAL @ArielleKruse1 @kingandbeggar I have both and I still prefer my Hydro Flask. I think Owalla’s design is really clever but HF keeps my water colder longer, is less likely to leak, and it stands up to the dishwasher better 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@lichentilter @BananoJrMHM Cinco de Mayo is ONLY celebrated by American culture lmao

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@GematriatheWise @allie__voss Maria crew

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@12PursueTruth @SketchesbyBoze Totally. And simply instilling a love for reading is much more important for the long run.

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@jeff_byrd @SketchesbyBoze Yeah, I’m thinking child development experts might have a different interpretation of “developmentally inappropriate” than the rest of us do. Or maybe it was just poor wording 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I’m saying multiple Eastern and Northern European countries don’t start structured, formal academic learning until around age 7, coinciding with the start of primary school. Before that, the focus is on play-based learning. There is a focus on pre-literacy skills, but again, under the play-based learning umbrella. I’m sure there are kids who are outliers, but it’s just not the focus of their education system before age 7.

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@SketchesbyBoze Also, isn’t this in line with what a lot of child-development experts have been preaching for a long time? And an approach that for decades has been the standard in several Northern and Eastern European countries (Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark)?

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I’m a little torn here. Admittedly, I haven’t read the article, but are they really saying kids shouldn’t read by that age? Or that you just don’t need to go out of your way to teach it at home at that age? Yes, early literacy is great and all, but I’ve always been under the impression that only as long as it’s child-led, and that what is most important when it comes to developing literacy skills and a lifelong love of reading is simply growing up in a home where books and reading play a major role in daily family life.

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@EmsterJean @ikissjaekook They’re not. And they’re like a million calories, which I find very odd given the clientele.

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The Stranger. Albert Camus.

[Thorfinn🕊️ @DavidKairoT]

some of the greatest opening lines in literature

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@MrsGoresDiary I think it’s more about less (or no) phones/tablets. Too much TV is bad if it’s constantly replacing other activities but it’s not nearly as detrimental as personal devices are. This is the part that so many people don’t get. There is a HUGE difference between the two.

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I’m so sorry for your loss and that you dealt with this truly awful condition. Only those of us who have lived through it understand how absolutely horrendous it is. A true living nightmare. My mom died 4 years ago of a grade 4 diffuse midline glioma. She lived almost 7 years from diagnosis, which I’ve read makes her one of less than 1% of people with a similar diagnosis. And I have so many mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I am grateful we got so many more years with her and that she got to meet her two grandchildren (my first was 7 months old when she was diagnosed) but on the other…those were the hardest years of our lives. Watching her ever-so-slowly lose every single one of her abilities and memories was nothing short of gut-wrenching. She lived over 7 months completely dependent on us for every single one of her needs, slowly entering into a coma-like stage in the last couple months of her life. I can think of few worse ways to go, and I know an argument can be made for it being the worst. It also seems to so often take the most beautiful of souls.

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@jatinprajapat29 @OcramsReyzor

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@risegrinddaily9 @OcramsReyzor Yes, it is

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@amdeming @jatinprajapat29 @OcramsReyzor And a Beyoncé song

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@mugIerette

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@bryan_johnson Girls.

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@erichustls Ready