#Empower Kids

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[tomorrowlandacademy]

Fostering independence in children during their years of preschool in El Monte, California, is crucial for building self-confidence and autonomy.

[aaa-battery-not-rechargeable]

i met a queer high schooler today, at my job

throughout the interaction i had with them, i watched them become more relaxed and open, simply seeing me as a queer adult doing my job

i sort of feel like i served as an example for that student, of a queer person existing successfully in society.

i could pick up on their habits mannerisms and fashion, and related my own experiences to that. they were visibly disabled, so i wanted to ease their mind about accessibility concerns in the building, so i mentioned my heart condition and trouble with walking up stairs. they were immediately more comfortable. we used the elevator

i complimented their nonbinary pride flag bracelet, and pushed my hair aside so they could see my name badge with my pronouns, and they smiled.

it's so freeing to be seen without the expectation for any explanation, and i know that so i wanted to give them that peace of mind. i wanted to show them that the world outside of high school is survivable. hope is not crushed, i am here, i am visibly queer, and so it is possible for them too.

[kindlespark]

porter watching the bad kids in the final battle like goddamn i groomed the wrong kids. these guys have so much rage in them and they aren't even shatterstar'd

[tempoaryblogformightyjensblog]

I need all newcomer FNAF fans to understand that William is not a normal child killer. Not in the sense that he has some great depth, but rather he is fixated on killing/hurting children to a weird degree. There is no normal degree, but he somehow found a weird degree.

I made a post about this a couple years back, and I did get the facts slightly off, so I will give an updated take. Ahem

He did not just kill 5 children at Freddy's, when Freddy's opened 2 years later he got a fake identity to kill 5 kids again. He used his apparently very wealthy company and his insane level of technological genius to build several highly advanced machines that function like they are from the 22nd century, have stuff like 'voice mimic lure' and many other advancements, and he used these godly accomplishments to kidnap and kill more children. He discovered Scarecrow-esqe hallucinogenic gas and used this for, you guessed it, torturing kids in his underground lab. They had like a whole fake house down there with a bed and a dinner table and everything bro was intricate.

After he became undead, he went to a fake pizza place he knew was a trap juuust so he could see if there were any actual kids here to kill.

So film fans if you are asking yourself if William is just a normal child killer, the answer is no. It is more that he is on some sort of crusade upon children everywhere and dedicates his entire existence to killing or hurting more kids. It's his goal in life, it drives him. He would invent time travel but only if every time the device was used to travel in time, it kicked an orphan in the balls.

[ducktracy]

i am very averse to "look at how much this thing sucks. let me shove said sucky thing in your face and laugh at how it sucks and cultivate an environment of suckiness" posting but the reaction to this i'm having is so severe and making my head explode that i have to share it. likewise because it doubles as an excuse to post a Good Thing alongside with it.

i just stumbled upon the Alvin's Harmonica segment from The Alvin Show and I LOVE ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT IT'S SO CUTE AND CHARMING. i like that Alvin tortures Dave even in his subconscious like some sort of horrible inverse of Jiminy Cricket. love the layout work and everything about this is extremely charming

and so now, having instilled that Goodness into your brains, i now ask you to look at this instead which got recommended to me. WHAT DID THEY DOOOOOOOOOOO TO THEMMMMMMMMMMMMM. THIS IS MAKING MY SKIN CRAWL. WHY DO THEY SOUND LIKE THAT. WHY ARE SIMON AND THEODORE MAD, IN THE ORIGINAL THEY ARE GLEEFULLY COMPLACENT IN ALVIN'S ANTICS AS THEY SHOULD BE. AH!!!!!! AND THE RAPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously making my skin crawl i'm going to sob

i. oh my goodness. for the record i am not Genuinely outraged at this Good Chipmunk Erasure because that would be even more stupid than the above clip. but this just elicited such a violently bewildered and shocked reaction out of me and appeals perfectly to my cartoon masochism in that i absolutely eat up stuff that makes me go "WTF" that i had to share. this is making me hyper from how. whatever this is. i hate it and its existence is so funny to me #NOTMYALVIN

[anexistingexistence]

[Based on my empowered people can have unempowered children post.]

Shifter Honey who grew up in a small pack in Dahlia.

Shifter Honey whose one parent was the alpha of their pack while the other had a successful career in the department.

Shifter Honey whose pack had the highest expectations for them.

Shifter Honey who was taken to the doctor every month after their 13th birthday because they didn't have an aura yet.

Shifter Honey who was kicked out of their pack because they weren't a shifter at the age of seventeen.

Empowered born Honey who has no magic.

Empowered born Honey who resents magic and the magical world for all it's worth.

Empowered born Honey who throws themself into the most traumatizing, hurtful shit they can think of in hopes that they are just latent.

Empowered born Honey who runs into Darlin' at a club one fateful night, who proceeds to become one of their closest friends.

Empowered born Honey, who got invited to attend Shaw pack meetings by Darlin'.

Empowered born Honey, the first unempowered member of the Shaw pack.

Empowered born Honey, who will legally never be allowed to tell Guy about magic because they don't have any.

[officialdump]

What would we need to do if we had a small shifter currently huddled up in the radio room with no details other then hes a shifter, hes scared to go home, he has most likely been living outside for a long time, and he doesnt seem to want any help?

This seems like a department issue… do you handle empoweeed children well fair?

- 🧸🖍️ ( @damn-daycare-news )

short answer, yes

long answer, still yes, but the system is kinda shit and only work for a big handful of kids

it works for a lot, but not for all

and judging by the detail for this little man, I don't think he'll do very hunky-dory there

I mean, if he doesn't end up having any proper home, u could always send him my way 😃 I DON'T MEAN THAT IN A WEIRD CREEPY GUY WAY, I'm just really great with kids and wouldn't mind having to take one under my wing if he's too much for u👍

[your-queer-dad]

Hey kiddos! I'm so happy people are reaching out and sending an ask- hearing from you all is so sweet and I'm always here to help out! My inbox is open night and day so feel free to reach out, no matter the reason or question. I'm here for everyone.

I love you, I'm proud of you, take care of yourselves and I'm always hear to listen

- dad x

[mishkakagehishka]

I think "whatever a woman chooses to do is feminist on account of the fact that she's a woman" did awful things for the movement. I really do.

[hmsharmony]

There were several changes I disliked because it robbed us of the fun from the books, but literally beside myself they took away Percy giving his mother Medusa’s head so she could decide whether to use it against Gabe.

[karate4youthcdc]

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[wonder-worker]

“…The Anglo-Saxon era is often thought of as having been a golden age for women. Since the late eighteenth century, it has been a commonplace that women in England had better rights before the Norman Conquest than they did afterwards, and were held in higher esteem by society. Before 1066, said one eminent historian in the mid-twentieth century, men and women enjoyed ‘a rough and ready partnership’. As so often with golden ages, however, this picture rests on a selective reading of very limited and debatable evidence. One of its principal props is an account of German women written by the Roman historian Tacitus towards the end of the first century AD. These women, claimed Tacitus, were virtuous, frugal and chaste, and supported their sons and husbands by encouraging them to acts of valour. But this was simply a Roman praising ‘barbarian’ society in order to criticize his own. German women were portrayed as laudable because, unlike their Roman counterparts, they did not conduct adulterous affairs or waste their time at baths and theatres. The reality, unfortunately, seems to be that the status of women in first-century Germany and Anglo-Saxon England was no better than it was in later centuries.”

-Marc Morris, "Anglo-Saxons: The History of the Beginnings of England, 400-1066” / Pauline Stafford, "Women and the Norman Conquest"

Anglo-Saxon England has thus been a Golden Age variously of women's domestication, women's legal emancipation, women's education and women's sexual liberation. The length of a tradition which has changed so fundamentally over time is no guarantee of its veracity. A cursory view of a range of evidence from either side of the 1066 divide casts immediate doubt on the idea of a brutal Norman ending of the Golden Age. The raw statistics of Domesday, for example, suggest a different picture of England on the eve of the Norman arrival. No more than five per cent of the total hidage of land recorded was in the hands of women in 1066. Of that five per cent, 80-85% was in the hands of only eight women, almost all of them members of the families of the great earls, particularly of earl Godwine, or of the royal family. By the tenth and eleventh centuries women other than the queen are virtually absent from the witness lists of the royal charters, and thus apparently from the political significance such witness lists record.”

[aaa-battery-not-rechargeable]

got a comment the other day on my post about empowering queer kids that said something along the lines of 'come near my kids, you're getting shot on sight'

at first i thought it was solidarity, like 'wooo protect queer kids, I'll shoot if you dont'

apparently not, since the account was extremely,,, yikes. i cannot even remember the @ haha i just blocked them

but like.... is it so hard to let kids be? let them learn about queer subject matter without saying they have to be queer. it's alienating to NOT let them learn about queer matters. if the kids say they're queer, no matter if it's a temporary label for them or not, believe and support them.

it's more damaging to kids to regulate who they are in the strict ways of 'christian values' and 'kid appropriate' (as if someone being queer isn't suitable for kids to see), than any queer person minding their business and explaining their life and identity (especially when asked and willing to do so by a curious child!) will do.

so to that commenter.... come near MY kids, you're getting shot. on sight. :)

[inamindfarfaraway]

You know Andrea Davenport's intense hatred of her name being mispronounced? It's a particular, notable quirk of her character. This small error brings out the absolute worst in her; in her introductory episode she's much crueller and more of an active bully, enforcing the total social exclusion of Molly, instead of simply self-absorbed and insensitive but ultimately good at heart as she has been since, all because Molly accidentally says her name wrong more than once in their first meeting.

Why? The correct pronunciation of Andrea in her case is the less common one (and therefore seems posher), and less intuitive based on the spelling. It's quite reasonable that someone would say the other pronunciation more than once out of instinct. She can surely intellectually understand that. So why is this such a big issue for her?

Well, a lot of her bad behaviour can be explained by her parents' behaviour. Her father can be selfish and greedy in regards to his business, and while Andrea is spoiled materially and financially, both her parents routinely ignore and emotionally neglect her to pay more attention to their work, social media and image. When she focuses excessively on herself and her reputation, she's directly imitating her two first and most influential role models. Maybe if she makes the family and their brand look good enough, she'll be good enough for them to give her their time. Maybe if she's exactly like them, they'll be more interested in her. They're always interested in themselves, after all.

What if her parents are so neglectful that they can, at least on occasion, accidentally get their own daughter's name wrong?

Imagine an episode about Andrea where Molly is either observing her without her knowledge like in "The Don't-Gooder", or hanging out with her in a normal way, since she is her "best friend" now in Andrea's own words. Andrea is talking to her parents, who are looking at their phones and only half-listening.

Then her mother or father distractedly mispronounces her name, or even calls her a different name like Annie or something. Molly gasps, bracing for how badly Andrea will react. Her parent doing it is far more insulting than a stranger doing it!

But Andrea barely reacts at all. She's stung, dejected, but not angry. Resigned. She doesn't even bring it up. Like this is frequent enough that she doesn't think that her literal parents remembering how to say the name they chose for her or even the name itself would be a guarantee.

She doesn't have much power over her parents. Not the kind that will sway them to meet her basic emotional needs. But as she learned early on in life, thanks to her wealth, beauty and charisma she can exert power over her peers, and later the general public and her fanbase. So she is going to make damn well sure that everyone else refers to her correctly. And if they don't, she'll subject them to the most painful, degrading treatment she can conceive of: being ignored.

Her name thing set the whole plot of the second episode into motion. Can you imagine, after how firmly it was established, the impact on Molly and the audience of Maxwell Davenport saying, "That's nice, Angela" and Andrea's only response being reserved, familiar hurt?

@fallen-gravity

[samantabrzozowska]

"You are pure, the love of God

makes pure each one of us."

~ Sam