I am disgustingly unwell-read. What books should I read?

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%.

my favorite corner at home

tarefas repetitivas costumam gerar distração, por isso que nesses casos deve ter um protocolo de segurança reforçado, tem por exemplo uma técnica japonesa chamada yoshi no qual você aponta e fala em voz alta todas as etapas antes de executar uma ação

The irony here is that the victim appears to be wielding a video recorder in her right hand and might also be focused on content

💔 Prayers up for Chimamanda Adichie, Ivara Esege, and their families at this devastating time.

returning to work after 1 week leave

Marlon & Shawn Wayans reveal that out of ALL the iconic scenes in Scary Movie, this is the one that had them breaking character the most 😭💀👀

real.

oh shit, so the makers of Scary Movie that were hired to make another Scary Movie made another Scary Movie? MASSIVE dissapointment!

guilty 😂

Do you people say this about Hollywood movies?

Season 2 was certainly worth it👏🏾

Happy birthday to the talented African super star, Ayra Starr 💜🎂

I love when black people are portrayed as gentle and dreamers instead of sapphires and pimps. Makes me so happy

It’s been 1 month since the children and teachers have been kidnapped in Oyo.