#childhood
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I don’t even remember what i ate this morning but I’ll always remember the tricks and cheats of The Sims 3
Magic alone won’t make your star rise at Hogwarts … it also helps to be a push girl! Born into a Muggle family, Hermione Granger entered Hogwarts with every disadvantage. But, she quickly rose to the head of the class. While her boy friends were out playing with their magic wands, she mastered the art of the spell. Hermione quickly proved you can become anyone you want to be, no matter where your origins lie. Even, perhaps, the next Minister of Magic?
Tell your friend she’s got a little Hermione in her. Reblog now to give her a little push.
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“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” — J.K. Rowling
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In the last few weeks I have tried to do the things I used to love when I was younger - I painted with watercolors, I take photos, I try to read more. But most of all I try to see the beauty in everyday stuff and get exited about the little things. I remembered how much I used to like pumpkins and somehow it’s coming back to me this year
what did you used to be exited about?
#childhood#pumpkin#fall#herbst#autumn#Reebok#sneakers#outdoors#halloween#lagom#lifestyle#memories#pumpkins#hellofall#harrypotter#potterhead (hier: Würzburg)
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Childish Fantasy Dream
Ya know what sucks? College. I wanna die. Hope you like the aesthetic tho, I used it to procrastinate.
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4 years old with a z on his shirt
Bywearethebrowns
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child attempting to make a snow angel
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Grinning beautiful girl in her day of the dead Halloween make up
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Will You?
Carrie Fountain
When, at the end, the children wanted
to add glitter to their valentines, I said no.
I said nope, no, no glitter, and then,
when they started to fuss, I found myself
saying something my brother’s football coach
used to bark from the sidelines when one
of his players showed signs of being
human:oh come on now, suck it up.
That’s what I said to my children.
Suck what up? my daughter asked,
and, because she is so young, I told her
I didn’t know and never mind, and she took
that for an answer. My children are so young
when I turn off the radio as the news turns
to counting the dead or naming the act,
they aren’t even suspicious. My children
are so young they cannot imagine a world
like the one they live in. Their God is still
a real God, a whole God, a God made wholly
of actions. And I think they think I work
for that God. And I know they will someday soon
see everything and they will know about
everything and they will no longer take
never mind for an answer. The valentines
would’ve been better with glitter, and my son
hurt himself on an envelope, and then, much
later, when we were eating dinner, my daughter
realized she’d forgotten one of the three
Henrys in her class. How can there be three Henrys
in one class? I said, and she said, Because there are.
And so, before bed we took everything out
again—paper and pens and stamps and scissors—
and she sat at the table with her freshly washed hair
parted smartly down the middle and wrote
WILL YOU BE MINE, HENRY T.? and she did it
so carefully, I could hardly stand to watch.
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Also: Good Bones, Maggie Smith
Today in:
2021: After Graduate School, Valencia Robin
2020:in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say, Danez Smith
2019:from The Invention of Streetlights
2018:Returning, Tami Haaland
2017:An Ordinary Composure, James L. White
2016:Verge, Mark Doty
2015:Reasons to Survive November, Tony Hoagland
2014:Unhappy Hour, Richard Siken
2013:Just Once, Anne Sexton
2012:Talk, Noelle Kocot
2011:Why They Went, Elizabeth Bradfield
2010:Anxiety, Frank O’Hara
2009:The Continuous Life, Mark Strand
2008:An old story, Bob Hicok
2007:you can’t be a star in the sky without holy fire, Frank X. Gaspar
2006:For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu, A.M. Klein
2005:Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem, Bob Hicok
Okay but how is this our problem? What’s the context?
Thank you, like what does this have to do with me? I’m supposed to be considerate of what here, a lack of socialization?
Understand that this is a public health issue. Understand that it’s society’s job to step in when parents fail. Every time something is supposed to be “their parents’ job,” these kids don’t get it.
Understand that kids like this miss a critical early learning period for social connections and are going to be playing catch-up for the rest of their lives.
Understand that this is overwhelmingly caused by poverty, crime, racism, mental health problems, poor housing, mass incarceration, bad work conditions, and the breakdown of the extended family. A lot of parents would be better if all their time, attention, coping and physical presence weren’t eaten up by trying to do too much with too few resources.
Understand that this is why we need strong public schools, free after-school programs, early mental health intervention, Home Ec in highschools. It’s why we need a higher minimum wage and cheaper housing. It’s why we need laws that make sense when it comes to who to throw in jail and who to set free.
Understand that a neglectful or abusive childhood is linked to later health problems like heart disease, diabetes, weight problems, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. It’s also a leading cause of mental health issues and addiction. We have to accept that people who have these problems weren’t in control of the circumstances that made them vulnerable, and they can’t be shamed or punished into no longer having them.
And yeah, we need to give adults with neglectful childhoods more understanding, more acceptance, more time, and more resources to make up for what they missed out on.
One thing this looks like in practice is destigmatizing adults learning “basic” tasks for the first time. Dismissing people who never learned how to cook or clean as “lazy manbabies” doesn’t actually help them start learning those things!
Yeah, I started cooking at a “late” age because my parents never taught me. When asked why they didn’t, their response? “Oh, well you never seemed interested.”
No shit?! I was a kid? Of course I wasn’t interested!! I wasn’t interested in any “adult” task! But cooking is an essential fucking skill for survival! It’s not like picking between piano lessons or karate or whatever, I NEED TO COOK FOOD TO LIVE
And my parents were great parents! They didnt neglect or abuse me or anything, they just like…did not think that one through
i don’t know how to tell you that you should care about other people
Same with teaching how to write an envelope, hownto pay taxes, basic car maintenance, writing a check
I frequently have to google these “basic” skills because my parents couldn’t be assed to sit down and teach me despite having adhd
This makes me feel safe I grew up in poverty with parents who were either fighting over finances, busy all time with work , strict that I couldn’t be myself, didn’t want me going anywhere outside that I was used to staying indoors and not learning how to socialize, and always expecting me to know something when I was never taught to begin with. So, to have spaces where adults can grow with calm guidance is amazing. I’m still trying to learn how to care for my inner & outer needs and recompensate everything I never got to do as a kid. My parents were both emotionally unavailable, so I had to learn to handle emotions on my own .
This whole post is a blessing in disguise. It’s a safe space and a call to action.
Often times we’re taught to ridicule others or put them down because we may know more than they so about a thing or two… but that’s more harmful than it could ever be helpful.
No one is saying you have to lay your life down on the line to teach every person you encounter, but there is a lesson in compassion that needs to be acknowledged and accepted.
Age doesn’t magically equate to maturity and having access/privilege to certain skills doesn’t make you better than anyone else.
Be a resource, not a reason for remorse
It’s also not saying that any individual person has to break any specific personal boundary or be personally obligated to put up with any harmful behavior or set of behaviors
Itis saying that we can give people a little extra space and time and compassion if we are able to and so inclined, and this can be expanded on with the imo very true assertion that while there is no individual obligation there is a shared social responsibility because humans matter and humans depend on one another
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