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@end3of6days9 During a summer football practice my sweet nephew asked me if I would buy new cleats for a teammate who wore a size 17! He would always call & say Auntie I have a proposition for you. I have the opportunity to do something very charitable but I need your help. I always said yes!
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👟 "When your children want to be good people, please allow them to be good people."
This aunt shares how her nephew Kobe gave his brand new Nikes (the ones bought just two weeks earlier) to his classmate Chris. Chris’s shoes were literally glued together and falling apart, and he was skipping gym class so no one would make fun of him. Kobe even asked his aunt to secretly buy him replacements so his mom wouldn’t find out.
Not only did she buy Kobe new Nikes and J’s… she also bought two pairs for Chris. ❤️
Have you ever seen a child show this kind of quiet kindness, or have one of your own do something like this?
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@atrupar That’s funny. Chip didn’t have a problem with the redistricting in Texas. Weird how they only complain when it’s not in their favor.
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@atrupar @chiproytx I don’t recall Chip the dick saying the Texas Supreme Court should strike down the gerrymandering there.
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@atrupar But Chip Roy's ass didn't have sh't to say when Trump started all this right here in Texas. Trump started this sh't and we Dems are going to finish it. Blue Tsunami incoming 🌊🌊🌊

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude. While at Harvard Law School, she served as a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Donald Trump is a fucking idiot.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump refers to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as "that new, Low IQ person"
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@FightStorage School lunches should be free!
If we can spend 60 billion on a reckless war to appease an insane madman's ego, we can spend 1 billion for school lunches!
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The Meghan Markle Effect Lights Up Australian Fashion — Again trib.al/ufjUpAj
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“It was a case of lightning striking twice for the Australian fashion industry when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex touched down for their whistle stop tour last week” .IKTR
#theMeghaneffect
No one is doing it like her.
This is why ugly hoes hate her, they can’t relate.
WWD@wwd
The Meghan Markle Effect Lights Up Australian Fashion — Again trib.al/ufjUpAj
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@DavidJHarrisJr If convicted? What about all the other crimes members have committed?
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@SussexHenryVIII This is another reason why Meghan had to go. Kate was threatened by her, and so was William.
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@YourAnonNews I hate to say this, but I think you may be right...
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@atrupar The Useful Idiot didn't know it was Fake News because it was generated by AI. 🤣🤣
GIF
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@river8052 Yes I know, I used the term that the intrinsic motivation crowd uses.
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My mother-in-law bribed my son to get good grades.
She promised him, without asking me, $1000 for every A he brings home on his report card at the end of the semester.
I was mortified.
This went against every parenting instinct I had. Everyone knows you cannot pay a kid to learn. You will ruin his relationship with school! You will teach him that effort is transactional! I almost called her out and told her to walk it back.
I decided not to say anything. And I'm glad I didn't, because I would have been wrong.
My son is thirteen and severely dyslexic.
School has always been harder for him than it is for the kids around him, and he knows it. He watches other kids read things once and get it. He watches them finish assignments in half the time it takes him.
Intrinsic motivation for a kid who struggles and knows he should not be struggling is literally impossible. School is a daily reminder that he is different.
You can't fall in love with the process of learning when the process humiliates you. I have witnessed his struggle with confidence firsthand. The people who tell dyslexic kids to find their passion for learning have never watched a dyslexic kid try to fit themselves into the narrow box of our education system.
But when she made the offer, I saw the gears start turning. $1000 is an absurd amount of money for a kid his age. He's been spending the money in his head ever since.
And then I watched him do something I have never been able to get him to do, despite trying everything in my power. He started trying. He started turning in his assignments on time. He did the damn work.
Then one day, he burst through the door after school, his hands doing the little flappy thing that he does when he's excited.
"Dad! I got two As!"
I burst into tears on the spot. In all of his years, he's never gotten an A on a report card.
His grandmother's ridiculous bribe did more for him than years of every parenting strategy I've tried. She bribed him into discovering that he was capable.
He learned, on his own, that he can actually do the work.
And the reason he learned is that the incentive structure was strong enough for him to actually decide to push himself.
This is where the intrinsic motivation thing breaks down.
Every single adult who clutches their pearls when it comes to bribing their kids gets up every morning and goes to a job they would not do for free.
I love my chosen vocation. Writing, speaking, and coaching are expressions of my highest values and align deeply with my sense of purpose.
And I would not work all day, every day doing this work unless I was getting paid handsomely for it, and anyone who claims otherwise about their own work is lying to themselves.
When you say, "I'd do it for free," what you mean is that you'd do the fun parts of the job when you felt like it. Nobody would do the real version of their job for free.
My son is more honest about his motivations than most of the adults who will read this. He was offered a clean deal. Do the work, get the money. He took the deal.
In doing so, he found something worth more than the money: the feeling of having done something he didn't believe he could do.
I'll chalk that up as a win.
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