glumshoe:

tiredxwitch:

markingatlightspeed:

raincloudsandsunbeams:

maxanaxam:

tinyqueenusagi-chan:

glumshoe:

The other day I watched a little boy get knocked to the ground by an older kid who was running by. He burst into tears as his mother hurried over.

“Here’s a bandaid for ya,” I said, producing one from my vest pocket.

“Oh, he’s not bleeding, thank you though!”

I lowered my voice and leaned in. “Kids think bandaids are health magic,” I said. “Ask him where it hurts and exploit that placebo effect.”

She did just that, and instantly the kid stopped crying and thanked her. “I’ll have to remember that,” she said.

Children: #HACKED

Also if you have a crying kid give them a cup of water. You can’t cry and drink at the same time and it gives them a chance to calm down.

Tell them their going to run out of tears so they drink the water.

My mom does this at her preschool after awhile the other children start offering the crying child little cups of water.

Stuff like this is also a great test to see if the kid is actually seriously injured! Because with how much some kids cry over tiny bumps and scrapes, it can be hard to tell. But if you slap a Band-Aid on it or give them a cup of water or a piece of candy and they stop crying, they’re fine. If they keep crying despite whatever little placebo or distraction you’ve given them, you might wanna look a little closer at that injury or seek medical attention.

With my two’s class we ask them “more hurt or more scary?” It takes a bit of practice but after a few times they can answer without more prompting. More scary gets a hug and more hurt gets a look over.

That last one is so important because it validates the child’s feelings and tells them it’s okay to have these feelings and lets them learn how to deal with them, rather than just distracting them from them. I also helps teach the child to both communicate their feelings more readily and communicate when they’re hurt more clearly. All really important skills for a child to develop young.

Oh cool so you basically told his mom you know how to handle her upset child better than she does. That’s cool that’s cool- definitely not the worst most annoying mansplainy shit I’ve ever heard.

if explaining why I give kids at my workplace bandaids when they’re not bleeding is the “worst most annoying mansplainy shit you’ve ever heard” I envy you, ‘cause my coworker is currently in the middle of an unprompted 15 minute lecture to me about how it’s dangerous to walk around alone at night in big cities and my ears are starting to bleed

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valtsv:

hero: IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO???

villain: *choking back tears* uh, yeah, i’m actually trying really hard here man

hero: *now looking uncomfortable* oh

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scoutsmoocrew:

scoutsmoocrew:

Chemistry is only interesting when you’re feeding cows sunflower seeds and oats to make their milk and meat taste like raspberries

“CSIRO scientists found that if you supplement the feed of cows with oat and sunflower seeds simultaneously, you get an interesting surprise – via a two-step pathway. First, the oats stimulate the growth of certain bacteria in one of the cows’ stomachs.

Second, these bacteria move on to the sunflower seeds. They convert the oil in the sunflower seeds into a chemical called gamma-dodec-cis-6-enolactone – which tastes just like raspberries. In fact, this chemical is so pervasive that it gives a raspberry flavour to both the cows’ milk and their meat!”

x

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youtubersarelife23:

GO YOU TUBERS GO!

THIS IS HOW YA CHANGE THE FUCKING WORLD!

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a-blank-space:

From the bottom of my heart I hope 2020 is a better mental health year for everyone

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why-am-i-even-on-here:

venus-worshipper:

yo does anyone else feel CONSTANTLY guilty? like you’ve always done something wrong but you don’t know what it is?

Yes, and I’ve spoken to my therapist about it, who offered an explanation:

She says that people who from a young age were made to feel like they kept doing things wrong - people who’s parents had impossibly high standards for them, people who were bullied, people who have special needs, people who didn’t develop crushes on the “right” people, people who didn’t act like the “right” gender - basically ended up being made to feel guilty so much that guilt became their default response to everything. Guilt became the emotional response to anything which the person didn’t already have a set emotion for.

People for whom guilt is the default emotional response are also more likely to have low self-esteem, doubt their own experiences, and experience impostor syndrome. So, watch out for that too guys

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greenteainthedark:

• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Is The Lightning Bolt
  
• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Is Grover
  
• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Am I
  
• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Is Daedalus
  
• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Is Luke

• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Is My Boyfriend (part 1)
  
• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Is My Boyfried (part 2)
  
• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Is My Mother
  
• Annabeth Chase and Where The Fuck Is The Exit
  
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