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The smartest and richest people are trying home school co-ops, and are going to church. The "network" of rich kids at private school is druggies and Marxist LARP'ers. Sending a kid to those "elite prep schools" means you don't love them. The kids internalize it. Messes them up.

Saying miscarriage treatment is the same as an abortion is like saying cremating someone is the same of burning someone alive. Stop the lies.

@Architectolder What a dream it would be to live in a place like this 🤩

Victorian architecture should always be available. Unique and beautiful architecture

Your brain is built to forget almost everything that happens to you. It makes one exception, and you're looking at it. Carole Peterson at Memorial University has spent over 25 years studying our earliest memories. She found that the first one most adults can recall comes from age 2.5, not 3.5 as the old textbooks said. The early memories that survive share three things: a strong feeling, a new experience, and a physical sensation. A wave, a dad's grip, and the weird feeling of riding a board check every box. The mechanism lives in the amygdala. It's the brain's emotion sensor, sitting right next to the hippocampus, the part that files memories. When something big happens, the amygdala triggers a flood of stress hormones like cortisol. That's the signal to the hippocampus to file this one extra deep. James McGaugh at UC Irvine spent his career showing this works for happy moments too. The amygdala fires for pleasure the same way it fires for fear. What matters is how loud the feeling is. Dads play a particular role here. Daniel Paquette, a developmental psychologist in Montreal, has spent 20 years researching what he calls the "activation relationship." Moms tend to be the safe base kids come back to. Dads tend to be the door to the outside world. They push kids into new and slightly scary situations, and stand right there as the safety net. Kids who grow up with this kind of dad end up more confident, less anxious, and more comfortable around strangers. A 2017 review pulled together 16 studies covering 1,521 father-child pairs. Quality rough-and-tumble play, which means the wrestling and tossing and chasing kind, was linked to lower aggression, better emotion regulation, and stronger self-control. In rats, baby animals that don't get to play-fight grow up with an under-developed prefrontal cortex, which handles planning and impulse control. Christina Bethell's 2019 study in JAMA Pediatrics took the long view. Her team at Johns Hopkins surveyed 6,188 Wisconsin adults about their positive childhood experiences. Adults reporting six or seven of those had 72 percent lower odds of adult depression than those reporting zero to two. The effect held even for people with serious childhood trauma. Good moments keep paying out for decades. The original tweet is right. The moments that burn in are the ones with big feelings, new physical sensations, and an adult who is the bridge between safe and scary. Twenty years from now, the grip is what he'll remember.

Thomas Massie just got immunity for glyphosphate manufacturers removed from the farm bill but you'll still say he sucks because Trump told you so.

Here is the single most effective way to convert your loved ones to Catholicism. It's not arguing. It's not apologetics. It's not even fasting. St. Monica used it to convert St. Augustine. Almost no Catholic prays this way today. Here's what she did. Her son was a complete mess. Stealing. Lying. Living with a girlfriend. Mocking the faith his mother had poured into him for years. So Monica did what any desperate Catholic mother would do. She went to the holiest bishop she knew — St. Ambrose — fell at his feet, and begged him through her tears: "Please. Speak to my son. Convert him. Save him." His response shocked her. Three words. "Leave him alone." What kind of bishop says that to a weeping mother? But before Monica could protest, Ambrose said the sentence that would change her entire life: "Go your way, and God bless you. For it is not possible that the son of these tears should perish." She left filled with peace instead of despair. And her son? He became St. Augustine — one of the greatest saints, theologians, and Doctors the Church has ever known. So what did Ambrose know that Monica didn't? He knew the one principle that turns ordinary prayers into invincible ones. And almost nobody prays this way. Here's how most Catholics pray: "God, if you just convert my brother, I'll be happy." "God, if you just bring my husband back to Mass, everything will be okay." "God, if you just do this one thing..." Read those again and notice what's actually happening. We're not surrendering our will to God. We're trying to bend God's will to ours. Not the other way around. We're treating the Almighty like a vending machine — the right combination of prayers, fasts, and good works, and out pops the conversion we want. That's not prayer. That's negotiation. And St. James calls it out by name: "You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions." — James 4:3 Here's the part most Catholics never grasp: God controls not just what happens — but how it happens. Maybe He's already ordained your family member's conversion. But maybe He's ordained that he'll convert only through your prayers, your suffering, your surrender. And as long as you're white-knuckling it — trying to be the engine behind her conversion — you're getting in the way of the very thing you're begging God for. So what's the answer? Surrender. Stop trying to sell your family the faith. Stop shoving apologetics in their face. Stop trying to prove you're happier than them. Pray the way Abraham prayed. Remember what God asked of him in Genesis 22? To take Isaac — his only son, the son of the promise, the son he loved more than his own life — and lay him on the altar as a sacrifice. And Abraham obeyed. He raised the knife, fully surrendered. And the moment he did, God stayed his hand and gave him back his son — and made him father of nations. Because Abraham was willing to lose what he loved most, he received more than he ever dared ask for. That is exactly how to pray for your loved ones. Not: "God, you have to do this." But: "Jesus, you want this person's conversion even more than I do. Not my will, but thine be done. On your time. In your way. And if it's only through my suffering — so be it." When you can pray like that, your prayers become unstoppable. One of the Eastern Church Fathers put it this way: "He who obeys God — God obeys him." Read that one more time. The Monica who clenched her fists and demanded action got nothing for years. The Monica who finally surrendered her son to God with open hands got St. Augustine. She got the Confessions. She got a Doctor of the Church. She got to spend eternity with the very son she once feared she'd lost forever. If you have someone you're praying back to the faith — a spouse, a child, a parent, a sibling — hear this: Stop fighting, start surrendering. Open your hands. Let God be God. Send this to a friend who needs to hear it.

The most dangerous pandemic of this century may not be a virus. It is the “One Child Pandemic.” One child carrying the pressure of two parents, four grandparents, and an entire bloodline’s expectations. One child growing up in silent homes instead of noisy childhoods. No sibling fights. No shared secrets. No built-in best friend for life. Just screens, perfection pressure, loneliness, and emotional isolation dressed up as “modern comfort.” Earlier generations grew up with less money but more people. Today’s generation grows up with more gadgets but fewer human bonds. A single child becomes the family’s hope, retirement plan, emotional support system, and legacy all at once. And when that child breaks mentally, the whole house collapses quietly. Human beings were never designed to grow up emotionally alone. A society survives not only on economy and technology. It survives on cousins, siblings, chaos at dinner tables, shared responsibilities, and people who stay after the parents are gone. The real tragedy is not declining birth rates. It is declining human connection. We are slowly creating generations who know how to use every device… but do not know how to share grief, tolerate differences, protect relationships, or carry family together. A crowded house was never poverty. Sometimes, it was civilization itself.

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward. Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space. That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons. So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public. The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it. The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open. The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility. That is the trade. A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation. This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question. The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults. It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation. The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

@RRR0BYN How is watching tv while working while pumping locked in? Can’t imagine any of those things are done with any level of actual engagement.

Call me crazy but this is the opposite of locked in. Locked in would be walking in on your wife and she’s just breastfeeding your baby.

@FoundationDads It’s like my SIL who said she didn’t need more kids cause her child would have cousins. I said except what if everyone thinks like you? The only way to have a big extended family is if someone actually has multiple children.

Everything a childless couple depends on is provided entirely by other people's children: - The nurses who will bathe them when they can't bathe themselves - The workers who stock the shelves at their grocery store - The taxpayers funding their Social Security checks - The mechanics keeping their cars running - The entrepreneurs building the apps they waste time on - The doctors who will diagnose their diseases - Someone who literally just shows up when they call 911 But sure, children are "not for them."

@LargeFamDad Last time we traveled we did two rooms with two queen beds each. But you have one more kid. Pack and play? 🤭 The only other way is Airbnb.

POV: searching for travel lodging as a large family. Hotel rooms won't work. Hotel suites won't work. Need a full kitchen. Need a highchair. Need a washer & dryer. Need a crib or pack-n-play. Minimum 4 beds, 2 bathrooms.

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere." Farmer: "Where did they get it?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere." Activist: "From... eating?" Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it." Activist: "The soil?" Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from." Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere." Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

There is only one thing you need to know about @RepThomasMassie campaign and it’s not even that he’s the best congressman in the country with a voting record second to none. It’s that the Israel lobby is attempting to unseat a congressman for the crime of exposing them and their disastrous war. No self respecting nation can allow that to happen. Don’t believe the bs last minute accusations and betting market shifts. These are obvious signs of a concerted effort. Just double down, send him money if you can, call whoever you know in his district, share his videos or posts. We need to win this one.

@GChristiemd I shared a post about children being blessings and how I would have liked to have even more. Someone commented, not everyone can afford to have an so many! How quickly people forget abundance has never been the norm and yet big families were. I wouldn’t trade my siblings for $

According to most people commenting on the demographic apocalypse, this kind of generous fertility is only possible for the ultra rich. I'm going to guess this couple was not skiing in Colorado during spring break, or sending their children to expensive soccer camps. Raising children is as costly as you make it. Better to have more children who share and make do, than one or two rolling in material goods. Oh, faithful permanent marriage is of course necessary.

Underrated green flags in women: -Is grateful & sees magic everywhere -Respects men & the men in her life feel safe with her -Takes good care of her physical appearance but isn’t vain -Is feminine & sensual but not for the male gaze -Is deeply emotional but never lets her emotions excuse bad behavior just bc “she’s a girl” -Doesn’t gossip -Supports other women & is intentional about her circle -Knows her worth but doesn’t compare herself with other women to elevate herself -Is capable but allows others to take care of her -Isn’t controlling -Is kind & polite to service staff and elders -You can have (deep) conversations with her about anything & everything -Doesn’t need to fit in with this world & only needs God’s validation -Prays for others more than she prays for herself -Loves hard & selflessly but guards her heart

Every fiber of the human body says to "RUN," in such a life-threatening situation. Few things will trigger the "fight or flight" instinct than an out-of-control fire. Society MUST NOT take for granted the actions of an officer who potentially sacrifices himself to save others. It's bravery enough for our fire fighters to enter a burning building, but they at least usually have survival equipment and specific training. In this video, the officer shown is a true HERO.

"We'll proceed with Digital ID." I guess you might as well dress like a complete douche bag if you're gonna tell people that.