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Second order impact is that this is what the women are taught. Devastating to them. How can they follow such a broken person that can never be fixed. The whole idea of biblical submission has to be completely reinterpreted. The men turn to servant leadership to seek to fix the issue and soon become slaves to a destructive marriage. It's real bad, this is becoming the default.

🧵My Latest: A generation of evangelical boys was taught to see themselves primarily as dangerous, broken, lustful, weak, and perpetually failing. Then we wonder why so many disappear into porn, gaming, passivity, and quiet despair. This essay hit a nerve.

I like what you are doing, but generally confused. My kids did not want to do swim team this summer. Took 3 weeks till they began to actually enjoy it. It was a much needed skill for future activities we plan to do. Many such examples where the skill of pushing through adversity, especially if it is internal is needed.

@ashorts52 Not sure I believe in discipline. I think people just do what they want to do and call it discipline.

If you have to push your kids to do something, you might as well not. People win at what they're naturally drawn to anyway.

@NoahRevoy Our culture say to let our emotions lead. It's much more a default with women than men which is what I think you are getting at. Emotions are much easier to twist and direct by the enemy, and cannot be allowed to lead.

There are a handful of women that I know who understand men well, can think rationally, and have the self-awareness to know where their own biases and limits are. These women can give a man good advice. They are very rare, though. You would think these would be women who had really good fathers, and sometimes that is true and sometimes it is not. You would think these would be women who had a really good husband or a lot of brothers growing up, and none of those seem to fit a consistent pattern. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I am thinking about it right now, and the only common thread is that they have a large amount of self-awareness from the outset. I think once that happens, once they understand themselves and their own nature, they can begin to understand the nature of men. Until a woman has done that, until she has looked within herself, seen what there is to see, and accepted it, she will never really understand men. And vice versa when it comes to men understanding women.

@b_bmarlin @AutismCapital not necessarily. Fallen angels could have come from many different ranks.

@AutismCapital That is an angel. One of the good guys actually. Don’t remember off hand if it is a throne or domination. But definitely a good angel. Check it out in a book called The Bible.

Found on page 42 of the files. What is it?

Check it out, its in the bible. Wheels within wheels. In Ezekiel 1:15-21 (ESV): "Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl. And the four had the same likeness, their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel. When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went. And their rims were tall and awesome, and the rims of all four were full of eyes all around

@WHTBOYRICKY @AutismCapital What kind of angles? Right angles? Acute angles? Obtuse angles?

Perfect questions. Been married for 15 years now. One thing that our culture has done is ask men to focus on the person they need to lead a family. No issues there. However, being in church all my life, I was not asked or taught to measure what a godly wife would look like. It's a strange thing. Being a good Christian is not the same as being a good wife. Different roles. One general, one specific. Not a perfect analogy, but 1 Tim makes these parallels. If a boss who is leading a company isn't enforcing what his employees are supposed to do and in fact doesn't know what his employees are supposed to do, he's failed as a boss. A man is to lead his home which means he needs to be an expert in what it means to be a man but also what it means to be a woman as God has designed. The feminization of the church has led us indirectly to have men only consider what it means to lead well. There are parallel paths. Just look at the books, they always split with one dedicated to men and one to woman.

Imagine you are dating someone you find very attractive. You get along well with them, they like you as much as you like them, and there are no major personality problems. At that point, all you really have left to vet is whether they are responsible enough to make a good marriage partner and parent for your future children. So how would you vet them? What would you look for? What would you do?

@HannahWardEdu Nice, how did I miss this. To be effective in AI you need to learn to be a composer meaning knowing all the musicians and their parts. Education then is to teach our children both all the parts but also the questions to bring them together.

@ashorts52 x.com/HannahWardEdu/…

I once again offer y'all the stack: 1800s style learning from birth - 14. Dual enrollment + trade skills from 14-18 (skip high school entirely). Focus on computer science/AI + a trade that scales with those tools. congratulations - you're in the 0.001% of capable people at 18

In some cases, limited community, one or two kids. I have 5 kids and great community. It begins to break down as it stresses the family. That said, my boys will be 6'-7" or taller. There comes a point as a father where I want to provide the best opportunity for them. The question is at what cost and it's not a financial question.

Travel sports: - guaranteed family time every weekend - tour the entire country, see the sights - kids gain athletic skills and priceless memories - chance at scholarships/NIL money - kids stay out of trouble - make friends with people in town This is supposed to be “bad”?

@SimpleCRE Amazing! Needs a higher roof for basketball though. I need to put together some plans for this. Any idea where to start!

I usually don't like outbuildings to homes (prefer everything under one roof), but this is pretty sweet. 5K+ sf with gym, pickleball, basketball, golf simulator, sauna, workshop, multiple TV setups, kitchen and bathroom. I could spend some time in this one.

@HippyMomPhD Synthesis and Beast academy?

We use an online adaptive math program to learn math at a fast pace Then I use a puzzle/game based math curriculum for practice, fun, & joy The online program teaches really well, but doesn't showcase the beauty of math. The game-based one showcases the fun of math, but is a poor teacher Using both feels like a life hack -- and one we've been searching for a long time! This might seem like "too much" but the online program is so efficient you can do it 2-3 days a week - leaving the rest of the time for joyful work There are many paths to joy + rigor in math -- find yours♥️

@cboyack @join_praxis My oldest is 12 with siblings behind him. How do we prepare them for a school like this?

The @join_praxis participants are six months in and out-performing four-year grads in the same roles. The market already ran the experiment. The results are in.

Electrical engineer at Tesla but I couldn't stand electrical engineering in college, majored in something else. I learned to learn which opened the door to whichever direction I needed to go. Learning is about seeing the world through different lenses, math definitely being one of them. My Mom was an art teacher and taught me to see beauty in everything, especially in mistakes. Learning is also then seeing solutions using the world around you, not content.

If my child knows math but hates it. Have I Failed? You might be thinking: Why does it matter? Who cares if my kids hate one measly subject? But if a child decides, “I’m not a math person,” they close doors they haven’t even tried to open. I want my children to see the world as open in every direction. Not all paths will call them, but it’s my job to give them 360 degrees of possibility. My husband is a data scientist. As a child, he would have told you he didn’t like math. If his parents said, You don’t have to learn this, the career he has come to love -- that supports our family -- would have been cut off from him. So yes -- it matters if kids hate math. But sometimes this feels like an uphill battle. Math is both the easiest subject to make fun with games and the hardest to turn into something deep and rigorous without tears. So how do we change children’s relationship with math? We reframe it. Math isn’t testing us. WE are testing math. I know. I know -- easier said than done. It won’t be good enough to tell kids these ideas, we must demonstrate them through story and action. Today, let’s consider five reframes that will change how your child (and probably you, too) see math. tinyurl.com/7k6t5apm

@MB_Trening @TheShawnHendrix @Tesla @elonmusk Hmm, think I found a solution. Oldest son is 12. Enroll them in a rally car racing class at 16. Then they'll know the limit of physics and how vehicles respond.

We are what we practice. Most modern car system cause complete detachment from the experience and reality of vehicular travel. Meaning ... There is always physics involved. Mass, traction, weight transfer, etc. New cars seem to break those rules, but it's not true, they are just remove the human machine connection. That is why mums drive their heavy SUVs like Miatas, treating them the same. They are not. That is not safety. People lose their feeling of control and accountability. Systems make us dumb. Obviously, it's not important for most people as they treat cars as commodity, a utility, just as means of transport. But being a good driver, responsible and safe driver means, knowing the limits and system make cars almost limitless.

I’m thinking of getting my son a @Tesla for his first car do you think this is a good idea? If so, what’s the best bang for my buck for a Tesla? @elonmusk My farm is off grid when it comes to Electric. I generates more energy during the day than I can use. charging it is free

@MB_Trening @TheShawnHendrix @Tesla @elonmusk Underrated comment. We train our kids for adulthood, we don't dumb it down for it to be easy. That said, in 10 years self driving will be close to 50% of miles driven. Still worth the awareness though of what a vehicle feels like to not be able to take it for granted.

@TheShawnHendrix @Tesla @elonmusk Motor skills, spacial awareness, multitasking are the reasons not to get Tesla as a first car, but something simple, analog and manual instead.

@ounceofprevent1 @Cernovich Almost kind of like thumb pulling. Interesting!

@ashorts52 @Cernovich IBCLC was also a cranial sacral therapist and had a lot of occupational therapy training. Somehow through gentle manual manipulation with her finger in my son’s mouth, she was able to open up his palate. She said it was a skill that was once common among traditional midwives.

Palate expanders should be common knowledge. So many people who could improve their faces, but for kids, breathing and development. Explains so much.

@ounceofprevent1 @Cernovich As in like muscle work or palate massage?

@Cernovich Actually, palate can be manually expanded in the first few months. My son had a high narrow palate due to birth trauma. IBCLC manually repositioned the bones over about six appointments between 6-12 weeks. Now five, my son has the most perfectly wide bone structure.

@JeffreyBiles You should totally make it look like this. My kids would be all about it. That said, they also don't know how to find this map. Knowing which lessons are tied to the knowledge bubbles would be awesome

Two "world maps" Two great adventures

@congressdj @Hertz @Tesla Not going to happen. They are not qualified to solve the charging issues and manage them well. A time may come but I haven't seen it being in that part of the industry

.@Hertz did Teslas wrong and ultimately reduced its fleet to almost zero in 2024. Since then, global @Tesla ownership is up 68%. I think it’s time for another rental company to pick up Teslas and market them with FSD. Tesla owners who travel would likely be loyal to any brand that reliably rents them. @nationalcares @budget @Avis who is up for it?