Author: hearseeno
Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel
White Evangelical Christians opposed desegregation tooth and nail. Where pressed, they made cheap, cosmetic compromises, like Billy Graham’s concession to allow black worshipers at his crusades. Graham never made any difficult statements on race, never appeared on stage with his “black friend” Martin Luther King after 1957, and he never marched with King. When King delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech,” Graham responded with this passive-aggressive gem of Southern theology, “Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.” For white Southern evangelicals, justice and compassion belong only to the dead.
Forbes took it down. Heres a repost
“What today we call “evangelical Christianity,” is the product of centuries of conditioning, in which religious practices were adapted to nurture a slave economy. The calloused insensitivity of modern white evangelicals was shaped by the economic and cultural priorities that forged their theology over centuries.“
Oh golly, if Forbes, Jeffress, et al., don’t want this post making the rounds, I hope I don’t accidentally reblog it.
Morgan’s Story: A Camelot Macaw With a Foot Deformity
So, I just spent an hour watching parrot training. Not what I was expecting to do with my morning.
This is a story of the rehabilitation of Morgan, a hybrid Camelot Macaw with a foot deformity. She had developed some behavior problems going from home to home without an owner who knew how to respond appropriately to her needs.
These videos are by Jamie, an animal trainer, who took on Morgan’s rehab. What’s I found compelling is how much the training is about communication, reading body language, taking things from the animal’s perspective, giving the animal choices, and respecting her choices. So I just let autoplay take me from day one to several weeks out. If you watch all the way to the end, it becomes very apparent that the key to helping Morgan trust her abilities was putting your trust in her abilities and that not trusting them and attempting to compensate too much for her foot deformity was the core cause of all of her difficulties to begin with.
Karin Pfeiff Boschek on Instagram: “Happy Pi Day!
ADHD Kids Can Be Still – If They’re Not Straining Their Brains
How’s this for exasperating: Your ADHD child fidgets and squirms
his way through school and homework, but seems laser-focused and
motionless sitting in front of the TV watching an action thriller.Well, fret not, because new research shows lack of motivation or
boredom with school isn’t to blame for the differing behavior. It turns
out that symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder such as
fidgeting, foot-tapping and chair-swiveling are triggered by cognitively
demanding tasks – like school and homework. But movies and video games
don’t typically require brain strain, so the excessive movement doesn’t
manifest.“When a parent or a teacher sees a child who can sit perfectly still
in one condition and yet over here they’re all over the place, the first
thing they say is, ‘Well, they could sit still if they wanted to,’”
said Mark Rapport,
director of the Children’s Learning Clinic at the University of Central
Florida. “But kids with ADHD only need to move when they are accessing
their brain’s executive functions. That movement helps them maintain
alertness.”Scientists once thought that ADHD symptoms were always present. But
previous research from Rapport, who has been studying ADHD for more than
36 years, has shown the fidgeting was most often present when children
were using their brains’ executive functions, particularly “working
memory.” That’s the system we use for temporarily storing and managing
information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as
learning, reasoning and comprehension.As recently published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology,
Professor Rapport’s senior doctoral student Sarah Orban and research
team tested 62 boys ages 8 to 12. Of those, 32 had ADHD. Thirty did not
have ADHD and acted as a control group.During separate sessions, the children watched two short videos, each
about 10 minutes long. One was a scene from “Star Wars Episode I – The
Phantom Menace” in which a young Anakin Skywalker competes in a dramatic
pod-race. The other was an instructional video featuring an instructor
verbally and visually presenting multistep solutions to addition,
subtraction and multiplication problems.While watching, the participants were observed by a researcher,
recorded and outfitted with wearable actigraphs that tracked their
slightest movements. The children with ADHD were largely motionless
while watching the Start Wars clip, but during the math video they
swiveled in their chairs, frequently changed positions and tapped their
feet.That may not seem surprising. After all, weren’t the children
absorbed by the sci-fi movie and bored by the math lesson? Not so,
Rapport said.“That’s just using the outcome to explain the cause,” he said. “We
have shown that what’s really going on is that it depends on the
cognitive demands of the task. With the action movie, there’s no
thinking involved – you’re just viewing it, using your senses. You don’t
have to hold anything in your brain and analyze it. With the math
video, they are using their working memory, and in that condition
movement helps them to be more focused.”The takeaway: Parents and teachers of children with ADHD should avoid
labeling them as unmotivated slackers when they’re working on tasks
that require working memory and cognitive processing, researchers said.The study builds on Rapport’s earlier research, including a 2015 study that found that children with ADHD must be allowed to squirm to learn.
why Michael doesn’t read as a “parent” to me
(bc it was asked and there are reasons, they exist)
(also please note the “to me” part. this is not some call-out post for those who might have a different interpretation, it is just me explaining mine)
I also have never seen him as a parent, partly because I see him as a demonic Disney heroine.
No, for real. He’s always been different from all the other demons. He tries to fit in, but something inside him keeps telling him there must be more than this provincial life. He knows his home world is stagnating, but nobody will let him sail beyond the reef. He wants to be part of Eleanor’s world. When will the mirror reflect who he really is inside? Not till he either gets out of the bad place or wins enough battles and overcomes enough obstacles to convince people at home that their way of life needs to change.
Only, as the OP explains, he’s crap at all of that because he’s done nothing but torture assholes while working for assholes for all eternity. So he needs a lot more help from his sidekicks than Ariel, Moana, Mulan, and Belle did.
Hearseeno 