We need a general tweet of the day thread
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Evening television consisted of In Living Color, Family Matters, The Cosby Show, Fresh Prince, Martin, Living Single, Roc, etc.
Free pub
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Also Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods were basically NIKE wage slaves. Oprah Winfrey was another underappreciated black TV artist who was retired with nothing to speak off from her TV show.
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Slavery got so bad in the NBA that they call the owners of the teams “governors” now to hide this blatant racism.
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New Trump ad!
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Willie Horton.
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Exactly, go full ass Lee Atwater on the dems. Only if you want to lose, do you worry about Snow's sensibilities.
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Focus on car seats until kids are in high school and no blacktop on the playground and no children without a Karen watching them play. Open borders, fentanyl, grooming and no reading and writing have worked out so well.
I have been working, on and off, on a memoir about what it was like to grow up in a small town in South Dakota in the 1950s and early 60s. Looking back, kids in that time and place enjoyed an astonishing degree of freedom. Kids played, almost always without parents having anything to do with it. In some ways, you could say our parents were strict. On the other hand, they rarely had any idea what we were doing. As long as we were home for dinner at six, we were good.
Those days are gone. And yet, despite the hothouse environments in which children are raised nowadays, they aren’t safe at all. On the contrary: a great many of them can’t cope. I ran across this podcast by Bari Weiss: “Why the Kids Aren’t Alright.”
American kids are the freest, most privileged kids in all of history. They are also the saddest, most anxious, depressed, and medicated generation on record. Nearly a third of teen girls say they have seriously considered suicide. For boys, that number is an alarming 14 percent.
What’s even stranger is that all of these worsening mental health outcomes for kids have coincided with a generation of parents hyper-fixated on the mental health and well-being of their children.
Take, for example, the biggest parenting trend today: “gentle parenting.” Parents today are told to understand their kids’ feelings instead of punishing them when they act out. This emphasis on the importance of feelings is not just a parenting trend—it’s become an educational tool as well. “Social-emotional learning” has become a pillar in public schools across America, from kindergarten to high school. And maybe most significantly, therapy for children has been normalized. In fact, there are more kids in therapy today than ever before.
On the surface, all of these parenting and educational developments seem positive. We are told that parents and educators today are more understanding, more accepting, more empathetic, and more compassionate than ever before—which, in turn, makes wonderful children.
But is that really the case? Are all of these changes—the cultural rethink, the advent of therapy culture, of gentle parenting, of teaching kids about social-emotional learning—actually making our kids better?
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I fell off the bars in 2nd grade and broke my arm. I got back in line. The teacher dragged me off the field. I get it set and a cast and my parents shrugged and I went back to the playground
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I was very strictly raised, couldn't go see James Bond Goldfinger, but I was on my own at age 9 and would take my three year old little brother to the local school and he would play by himself on the playground while I played workup baseball. As the post said, my parents had no idea of where I was at until I came home for dinner. Today, the kids would be hauled off to be "safe" in foster care.
