This is all I want 😌

Whoever did this ….. you deserve to retire from this alone 10/10

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%.

White people bringing disease & unseasoned food to the rest of the globe

Nickelodeon really had 5 Percenter R&B playing on their network lmao

Princess Treatment only please ‼️‼️

I love that so many Knicks legends will be considered champions bc they are currently on Knicks corporate payroll 💙🧡💙🧡💙

He lowkey has Obama's level of charisma (something i thought we'd never see again)

She dressing like a toddler

Doing this with your best friends on both stages is something out of a Disney Channel Original Movie

Bitch. Alicia got her voice back???? Nah there really gotta be something magical happening in NYC right now. This is crazy.

Five days until Juneteenth 🙌🏾

You can’t tell me I didn’t play for the Knicks!

He deserves all of this praiseeee

Them nipples and areola's 😋😋😋😋😋😋

They so pretty 🤩 tell me I’m lying 🥺

This is literally the plot line of Madagascar but the Knicks won this time