#barney the dinosaur agere

[agerev4mp]

puppet shows i loved when i was bodily little ^w^

[ramona-quinn]

📚 Interior of Baby Bop’s school 📚

[oh-bother-stickers]

[the-blanket-fort]

coloring pages! theme: tv shows! (part 3)

thank youu coloringpagesonly !

last part! I'm gonna do some of theez :3

[fangsnpaws]

barney the dinosaur stimboard ♢

div. ✩ sfw interactions only

🪻 ✩ 🦖 ✩ 🪁 | 🦖 ✩ 🪻 ✩ 🌱 | 🪁 ✩ 🌱 ✩ 🪻

[childrensward]

Barney & Friends lollipop rattle [🦖]

[tethysea]

[baby-bats-coffin]

Get you a caregiver who gets you the plushies you never got when you were an actual kid 🥹🩷 my Daddy got me this Franklin plush today. I love my Daddy so much. 🥹😭🩷

[nickysfacts]

He loves you

You love him

Your a happy family

With a great big hug

And a kiss from him to you

Won't you say you love him too?

💜🦖💜

[sweetpeauserboxes]

[id: a white userbox with a pastel purple border and pastel purple text that reads “this user loves barney”. on the left is an image of barny the dinosaur with yellow stars surrounding him. /end id]

[agerev4mp]

stimmy barney ...

(watermarked to my main!! dont worry. this isnt stolen)

[kidcorekk]

I had a weird dream about a Barney's episode I watched as a kid. Something to do with nap time and a bubble machine? Maybe mac and cheese was mentioned too. Does anyone remember this or am I going crazy.

[kidcore-nostalgia]

[boywithdragon]

[bearyteeeny]

Barney & Friends: Happy Birthday Barney

[savegraduation]

The eight stages of life

Today, I officially become middle-aged. At 10:45 p.m. Pacific Coast Time, I turn 40.

When I was little, I thought being 40, 70, even 100 would be fun. But when I was a teen-ager, the prospect of going from an edgy, rebellious lad to a middle-aged man who's supposed to settle down no longer seemed something to look forward to. I've been in the latter mindset ever since.

In 1964, Jack Weinberg said, "You can't trust anybody over 30". Weinberg, a late Silent born in 1940, is now 79. The Silent Generation (born 1925-1942) had their last members turn 30 on December 31, 1972. The first Silents turned 40 on January 1, 1965, and the last turned 40 on December 31, 1982. The first Baby Boomers (born 1943-1957) turned 40 on January 1, 1983; the first Jonesers (born 1958-1963) on January 1, 1998; the first Xers (born 1964-1978) soon afterwards on January 1, 2004; and the first Millennials (born 1979-2004) on January 1, 2019.

As Millennials begin to fill up the middle-aged bracket without giving up our pro-youth beliefs in our forties, the movement to lower the voting age will gain only more and more steam as the "You'll agree with me when you're older!" claims directed at Millennials by ageists when we were teen-agers become discredited. People often say, "Wait and see". The wait was more than twenty years in the making, but now we're seeing. I didn't stop supporting youth rights when I turned 21. I didn't stop supporting youth rights when I turned 25. I didn't stop supporting youth rights when I turned 30. I didn't stop supporting youth rights when I turned 35. And now it's my fortieth birthday, and I still support youth rights.

It seems that society, at least in the U.S., recognizes eight basic age brackets. It has its expectations and norms about each of these brackets, and once someone has a milestone birthday, she or he is expected to become a different person.

0-5: Early childhood. This is the earliest and most dependent of all the age brackets. Children under 6 are expected to be totally dependent on adults, and watched at all times. Now, even letting a 4- or 5-year-old play unsupervised in the back yard is considered too dangerous. These children are to be kept away not only from profanity and sexual themes in movies and on TV, but also from entertainment that is just too scary or "intense". One would believe that children this age are supposed to be watching Barney and Bear in the Big Blue House -- nothing with death, violence, nor even fear. Although these little ones are under complete control of their parents and denied so much as choice in what to eat for lunch, at least they are safe from compulsory schooling for the time being.

6-11: Elementary school years. Kids this age are still children, but not small children. It is at this point in life that children are forced to go to school and learn to sit still without fidgeting and do work presented as "boring" -- a kind of forced learning that takes all the fun out of learning. Children this age might have a choice in whether to wear their red polo shirt or their blue polo shirt to school if their school has no uniform policy, but their parents are ultimately the ones selecting what assortment of clothes they have in their wardrobe. Although children of this age often have their likes and dislikes in food respected, society still pushes their parents to be in complete control of these children's lives. They are forgiven for going weeks without bathing and for scatological humor; but they are expected not to swear in front of adults, and adults or even older teens are expected not to cuss in front of them. They are absolutely to be guarded from sex and pedophiles, and older people molesting these kids is seen as strictly off-limits. Majorities of middle-aged Americans believe elementary-school-age children should not be left home without a parent or baby-sitter.

12-15: Pubescence. Although society does definitely not see 12-to-15-year-olds as adults, it does recognize that they are going through puberty. As such, junior high schools incorporate sex education and teach 12- and 13-year-olds about the male and female reproductive systems, pregnancy, conception, and the different STD's and their symptoms; schools will also teach about avoiding pregnancy, even if it's just abstinence-only sex education. Society considers these kids too young to be having sex, or to see R-rated movies at the cinema without a parent, but at least it recognizes them as free to be exposed to educational sex talk, and recognizes that they will have crushes on hot boys or cute girls -- both their approximate age and older. 12-to-15-year-olds are often free to go to the mall without a parent and get into fashion and trendy bands. They are not, however, expected to "grow up" and "stop acting like kids". Your average Gen-X 50-year-old today would rather her/his 13-year-old daughter or son watch children's cartoons than vape, or even make a big decision about a medical procedure.

16-17: Semi-adulthood. This period is a jarring transition for teens. 16-year-olds are restricted by social norms that expect them to behave "like an adult", told by 45-year-olds that they are too old to watch Saturday morning cartoons, to tell or laugh at fart jokes, to sing "Miss Suzy Had a Steamboat". At the Oregon Library mentioned in this UPI article, "adulting classes" are offered for 16-to-25-year-olds. In the article "10 Things Your Teenager Isn't Telling You", Izzy says, "I can't stand it when my parents say, 'You're 17. Act like a grownup,' one day, and then turn around and say, 'You're not old enough to do that. You're only 17,' the next. Which is it? Make up your mind!" Middle-aged Americans expect 16-year-olds not to behave like children. But most of them do not believe 16-year-olds should have freedom from their parents or freedom to choose where to go to school. Society also believes that these girls and boys should definitely not be voting, drinking, smoking, vaping, toking, gambling, sexting, or signing contracts. Teens at this point of life are considered old enough to work, and often accused of being "lazy" if they don't have a job, and yet many employers see their young age as a liability and will pass over them. If a teen this age molests or rapes a child, she or he will be seen as a predator and a sicko. Someone who does something evil at this age is destined to be held to it for the rest of her/his life

18-24: Emerging adulthood. When an American turns 18, she or he not only finally gets to vote, but is told that it's her/his civic duty to get out and vote, or else she or he's "not a good American". Pollsters also start caring about what these girls and boys think once they're old enough to vote. Since the seventies, older Americans have been fine with emerging adults signing contracts, consenting to operations, leaving wills, and buying pornography, and also are fine with them either getting married or not getting married. Although most Americans do not believe parents have a right to be a dictator over an emerging adult, these same Americans often welcome parents in as "guidance" figures of a sort when a 20-year-old takes a DBT class or has psychotherapy. Emerging adults are also seen as to be helped with any decisions with alcohol or drugs, due to the outdated scientific belief that "the brain does not finish developing until age 25". Older people often see this age group as lacking in life experience, but are fine with them being idealistic. 18-to-24-year-olds are considered too old to date someone in the 12-15 range.

25-39: Young adulthood. To Boomers' eyes, these people have attained a sort of cultural adulthood that earlier age brackets have not. Society no longer thinks it weird if people are having children at this age, and many people actually pressure 25-to-39-year-olds to get married, to buy a house, to start popping out babies and thereby overpopulate the Earth. Young adults are forgiven by anti-idealism grumps for being idealistic at their age, and allowed the freedom to travel a lot before they have children. Yet they are not protected by age-discrimination legislation against being turned down from a job for being too young. Young adults are expected not to be dependent on their parents, and not to live at home (at least by WASP Americans); they are told they should be working as members of the same society that judges people so critically. 25-to-39-year-olds are considered too old to date someone in the 16-17 range.

40-64: Middle age. These people are considered grown women and grown men, no longer kids nor even young adults. They are expected to act "matore" . . . and also humorless, to be "responsible" parents who have settled down. They are told that everything should be about the children they ought to be raising, not about them, and as much are not given much free rein in traveling or extreme sports. Middle-aged people are expected to be practical rather than idealistic, and as a result 40-year-old Millennials are coming as a shock to the Old Guard. Middle-agers are at the same time free to make their own decisions and judged for choosing to live "too freely" or "too wildly". They are seen as at just the right age when no one should refuse to hire them because of their age, either for being too young or for being too old. They receive the least discrimination from the Establishment of any of the eight age brackets. 40-to-64-year-olds are considered too old to date someone in the 18-24 range.

65+: Old age. Seniors are subject to prejudice from mainstream middle-aged Americans, not for being too young, but for being "too old". Youth and middle-agers alike often view the elderly as "fossils" or "dinosaurs" whose experiences have become too long ago and far away to have remained relevant, and yet many others consider them to have supreme wisdom. Parents will often teach their children not to contradict their grandparents, because while they may no longer be adults at the top of the world, seniors are still adults. Many will go out of their way to help people in their seventies, eighties, or nineties cross the street. While seniors often live in retirement homes and no longer have to work, or are taken care of by their 40-year-old children and no longer have to work, most people consider them fit to vote, and people believe they should make personal decisions of their own accord. Sometimes, though, they get declared unfit to make their own medical decisions or other life decisions due to senescence, and are subject to a second nonage, wherein every aspect of their lives are dictated by other (younger!) people. When a senior's ability to take care or her- or himself lessens, she or he can be viewed as similar to a child, as in the Shel Silverstein poem "The Little Boy and the Old Man":

I hope for the day when human life extension technology comes and a fortysomething or even a centenarian can have the body and soul of a 25-year-old again, because the life expectancy is 1,000 years.