#harmful to children

[falseandrealultravival]

Picture books are harmful to children (Essay)

Lion waiting in Namibia

I hate children. Not only do males not take care of their children like tigers and lions, but I like the style of killing their children like lions. (This is called the Bruce phenomenon.) So even if I accidentally become a father, I won't be interested in children and won't be with them. Well, like the Japanese warlords, I'll leave the education of my children to the right person.

Now, let's talk about "picture books." Whenever a smart woman has a "moving experience," she usually says she wants to make it into a picture book. Children are childish and stupid, so they welcome picture books. It's the law of supply and acceptance.

However, the danger is that even if a picture book with few words and thin content does match a child's sensibilities, after the picture book experience, the child stops growing. Even if the sensibilities are satisfied, the picture book does not contain enough information to raise the child's intelligence. Both mother and child are satisfied with their child's childish existence. This is no good. Children should read books that will sharpen their intellect, even if it means stretching themselves a little. Meaningless picture books are harmful.

Rei Morishita

絵本は子どもに害がある（エッセイ）

ナミビアで待ち伏せするライオン

私は子どもが嫌いだ。虎やライオンのように、オスが子どもの面倒を見ないどころか、ライオンのように子殺しするスタイルが良い。（ブルース現象と言う。）だから私が間違って父親になることがあっても、子どもには興味ないし、付き合わない。まあ、日本の戦国武将のように子どもの教育を相応しい者に任せるだろう。

さて、ここで「絵本」の話になる。ちょっと気の利いた女性がなにかちょっとした「感動的な体験」をすると、だいたい絵本にすると言い出す。子どもは幼稚で馬鹿だから絵本を歓迎する。受容供給の法則だな。

だが、危険なことは、文字数が乏しく、内容が希薄な絵本が、確かに子どもの感性にマッチしたとして、絵本体験後、子どもは成長を止める。感性は満足しても、知性を底上げするほどの情報量が絵本にはないのだ。幼稚な存在のままこれで良いと母子ともに満足してしまう。これではだめだ。子どもには、すこし背伸びをさせても知性を磨く本を読ませるべきなのだ。無内容な書籍である絵本は有害だ。

森下礼

[miraclemaya]

for a site that is supposedly very queer, the idea that parents should monitor their children's internet access is strangely popular. id be dead if that happened to me, and im fairly sure that is the case for many, many others.

[maybmila]

Poor kid

[mollysunder]

There is a theory that the way children play serves as a means to simulate and prepare them for the tasks they'll take on as adults. So for all the narrative weight both Jinx and the story give the boxing machine at the arcade it would never have prepared her or the kids to take on Piltover.

What are the two things that Piltovans excel at over their Zaunite counterparts to keep the hierarchy? Weapons and technological development.

When you look at the way Piltovans invest in their children, they don't prioritize hand to hand/melee combat training. Piltovans focus on giving their children experiences in handling firearms, a pursuit that is both leisure sport for the wealthy and a key offense against dissenting Zaunites.

And from the show notes even Jayce, whose family occupies the upper middle class, was sent on educational excursions across Runeterra to explore the world and learn what it had to offer. Without Jayce's education abroad he would never have been inspired to pursue the concept hextech.

It's no wonder that the two figures that are set to be Piltover's biggest threats from Zaun are Jinx and Viktor, becasue they engaged in the same kinds of games and activities as their Piltovan counterparts.

Jinx didn't have an entire forest preserved to help her practice her sharpshooting like the high houses of Piltover, but she did excel in the few games at The Rift (the arcade) that built on her talents. She's the only Zaunite thus far who's long distance offensive is a strong counter to Piltover's forces.

Viktor couldn't travel the world like Jayce did, but for better or worse he managed to stumble into an opportunity to get real opportunity in research not offered to his peers through Singed. It was through that experience that Viktor knew to turn to Singed when he was at the end of his rope, and the consequences of that will be fully realized in season 2.

Ironically, the kind of skill the boxing game champions is only good for keeping other Zaunites in line. Vander's days of fighting Piltover were way behind him when we first met him, and Vi spends season 1 primarily fighting other Zaunites. It's no surprise the Zaunites who embody the old ideal of strength in Zaun that the game portrays, Vi and Vander, are largely at the mercy of Piltover and end up collaborating with them to avoid further harm.

Zaun's future as an independent city-state couldn't happen if they stuck to their old ideals. The people who stand a chance against Piltover are the ones that not only succeed but excel at playing Piltover's games against them.

[autisticrosewilson]

I'm actually not over the person last week who got in the notes of my "stopping the drug trade completely all at once would actually be very bad for addicts, so getting pissy at Jason is silly" post and said with their whole chest some variation of "Ah HA so he took drugs away from CHILDREN just admit you have a weird version of Jason in your head" like. I mean, I guess if you really want to, you could be mad that he didn't give children who were already addicted the proper support. And we can get into the difference between addiction in children vs. Adults and I can give you my real actual anecdotes about patterns I've noticed with these situations. But I am like 89% sure that you do not care about the reality of addiction or actual addicts. You just want to hate a fictional character. And like. Go ahead and do that, but it's really embarrassing for you to advertise your lack of knowledge so loudly.

[bruciemilf]

Dad! Harvey and baby Jason wip!!!

Don’t :) Upset :) the baby :) mkay?

[authorbettyadams]

“Hidden Fires”

Science Fantasy Novel

85K Words

When his sister finds herself stranded in a hostile city, Drake McCarty must leave the retaliative safety of his wilderness home to rescue her. The mysterious alien Bard accompanies him as whispers of ancient enemies drift down from the stars. Drake can feel his bond with this ancient warrior growing every hour, but will it be strong enough to withstand the revelations that await them in the crowded city, or will it shatter under Drakes own weakness.

Indiegogo: https://igg.me/at/HiddenFiresBook/x/20737048

#FoundFamily #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Aliens #NationalParks #Novel

[bethanydelleman]

Something I think about a lot is how in Frozen, Elsa and Anna's parents really wanted to do what was best for their daughters and they tried their hardest but they still got it terribly wrong. They tried to follow the expert advice and failed.

It makes me think of how all of our parents probably failed us in some way, more likely if you were neurodiverse or queer, and how I may be failing my own kids, but the intentions are entirely pure. The parents in Frozen wanted their kids to be safe and happy, they loved those girls to death, but they didn't know how to meet their needs effectively. The best advice at the time or maybe what they learned from their parents was dead wrong. And in Anna's case, it's more about how when one child takes up a lot of time and energy, another may be left neglected unintentionally. Parents with a high needs children and typical children cannot help this, a lot of them can't afford adequate help (in this case, they isolated Elsa for safety and Anne was forced to be isolated too).

The harm and pain matters, but I think the intention does too. If a parent did harm from a sincere wish to do good, it's very different from malicious abuse. Anna and Elsa's parents really wanted to do the right thing.

(I'm not saying anyone deserves to be forgiven, just that I feel a lot of pity for parents who try their very best but get it completely wrong. Also, that "wise" Troll gave super vague advice and I blame him primarily for how Elsa was raised)

[qoldenskies]

i just have beef with tales of the hidden city cause it's like ... would you rather have Second Hand Embarrassment The Episode, the episode that's about fucking Racial Profiling towards an already heavily adultified black-coded character, nuclear family propaganda that comes down to "well he made us so we should be GRATEFUL to him" (seriously what the hell even was that), or leo vibing for 11 minutes 😭😭😭😭

[luckybyler]

This was a reply to someone else, but I'm making this its own post because so many people are being so evil right now re: Noah Schnapp.

You can find other, longer explanations with history and all, but all the places I've seen more or less agree with this:

So you're all calling people to cancel Noah because he's in favor of a Jewish nation in what is today Israel. Which is a perfectly reasonable, decent and educated opinion to have, especially when you, to use a trendy term, "educate yourself" and find out why the state of Israel was created.

11000 dead Palestinians, half of them children

According to Hamas. Don't forget that, ever. They're the current, official government of Gaza, thus they're the ones who give numbers. This means that the real number could be 10, 1 million, anything in between. What I've read is that they probably give more of less accurate total numbers. What they fail to do, however, is distinguish between Hamas militants and civilians, and beteween civilians killed by IDF strikes, civilians killed by failed Hamas or Palestininan Islamic Jihad's rockets (which happens a lot), and Palestinians murdered by Hamas/PIJ (which also happens, a whole damn lot). They also don't specify how many civilians they have prevented or tried to prevent from evacuating or receiving aid.

11k dead people is a horrible number. Even 1 dead person is a horrible number. However, urban warfare in such a densely populated area is its own kind of hell, especially when the other side is fond of using civilians as human shields in every way possible. The fact that the number is 11k and not 50k, 100k, and so on, indicates that the IDF have indeed done a lot to minimize deaths. You don't genocide people by doing roof knocks, opening evacuation lines, dropping guided bombs, putting up an Iron Dome to deal with rockets while avoiding escalation, etc. simply because actual genocide, while a lot worse, is also cheaper, easier and faster than what they're doing. This is important because caling every act of war genocide dilutes the word, and there are actual genocides happening around the world. Also, there is a difference between striking military targets and causing civilian deaths as a side effect (what the IDF is doing) and planning and carrying out a massacre deliberately targeting civilians and inflicting as much pain and humilliation as possible on them. And there is a difference between doing so by breaking a ceasefire (which is what Hamas did), and defending your country because if you don't do that a terrorist group will anhilate you (which is what the IDF is doing).

Back to Noah. So far, these are the things that people have tried to cancel him for:

Traveling to Israel (a completely normal thing)

Having Israeli friends (another completely normal thing)

Condemning Hamas' horrible attack on October 7th (the decent thing to do)

Posting a statement saying he feels unsafe as a Jewish person in the US (which, given the rise of antisemitic acts in the world, including the US, including where he lives and where he studies, is a valid feeling to have)

Signing a letter, along with Shawn Levy, Brett Gelman, Ross Duffer and I think Cara Buono, asking Biden to press for the liberation of every hostage by Hamas. This especially shows the utter ignorance of the cancellers because, as it turns out, caring about every hostage implies a slowdown of IDF's actions (and, at the time, a delay of a ground invasion).

Supporting the existence and preservation of the state of Israel (once again, a completely normal thing). The fact that people are turning against him for these things says to me that the real reason you are all hating Noah is beacuse:

He's Jewish. Like, really really Jewish.

And the fact that this all comes from a place of antisemitism isn't hidden at all: I've seen y'all on here, on Twitter, Reddit, every other social media calling him slurs (such as "cunt"), censoring his name, pretending he's not part of the cast, asking the Duffers/Netflix to fire him, wishing him failure, doxxing him, calling on his classmates to physically assault him, etc. He doesn't need to educate himself: you guys are already teaching him a great lesson on why a Jewish state is necessary. If that's the treament he gets from his own "fans", what can he expect from the world at large?

[reonnex]

This scene with a funny text-post I found (edited the type of bird)

[sandersstudies]

Me: *to another team leader* Wow first day of camp is going great :) Kinsley cried every day but one last year and she hasn’t cried once today, even when she lost musical chairs :)

*World’s loudest crash in the next room, glass shattering, ten pairs of little Crocs springing down the hallway*

Me: … I shouldn’t have said anything.

[domina-honoribila]

My daughter cut her finger really badly and we're in the ER, please keep her in your prayers. She may have severed a tendon.

Her name is Maria.

Update: she needs surgery on Friday to repair the tendon. She's only 4.

Update Two: she will not need surgery! They think it will heal on its own. Thanks for the prayers!

[mha-quotes-and-such]

Midnight, texting: Did you know you left your car running on idle outside of UA?

Aizawa: Yeah my cat is in there. I couldnt bring her in but she needs the AC on and likes the radio playing

Midnight: Thats a terrible idea, I’m taking her out and staying with her

Midnight: …Are you aware Shinsou is also in the car?

Aizawa: Yes, leave him in there. Just crack the window he’ll be fine

[rottenraccoons]

Dearest rotten raccoons, the people must know for they are concerned (potential spoiler ahead) : about chapter 2 Keir's route end, you're not planning to break our hearts with the terrible loss and death of some lovely NPCs in chapter 3, you wouldn't dare ? Beside, will our vespersona be able to comfort the poor man after the accident ? Was it even an accident ?? (So many possibilities, so many questions, I'm hooked !!)

I mentioned this on the Discord so I feel comfortable saying this on Tumblr, too. When it comes to the survival of the side-characters in Chapter Three, I have promised not to kill Eve 😊

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

can we stop the trend of putting traumatized and mentally unstable characters into romantic relationships as their “happy endings”?