A Lot Of People Around Me Are Having Kids And Every Day It Becomes More Apparent That Hitting Your Children

A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

Israel just murdered another journalist's, Muhamoud Abu-Hasira's, whole family including his wife and children as punishment for showing what they're doing

The total number of journalists targeted and murdered is approaching 40 at this time (11/5/2023). If you count the total number of journalists or their families that have been murdered it's approaching 100. Multiple journalists have had their whole families wiped out and are still reporting and working to expose the genocide.

Keep talking, keep posting their work. They've been forced to sacrifice everything for every scrap of information hat makes it out of Palestine

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mychaoticstoughts

1 year ago

I am still alive, Gaza is no longer Gaza

The Washington Post published some of Palestinian Minister of Culture Atef Abu Saif's diary, covering the first three weeks of the war on Gaza. The anecdotes of life collapsing are stark and horrifying all at once.https://t.co/yUjEItvAUj pic.twitter.com/pAoBHko5Rb

— Mohammad Alsaafin (@malsaafin) November 6, 2023

Read this. Read it slowly.

I Am Still Alive, Gaza Is No Longer Gaza

Read it again.

And then again.

Don't you ever forget it.

Link without paywall

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mychaoticstoughts

11 months ago

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mychaoticstoughts

4 years ago

thinking that what happened “wasn’t bad enough” is a sign that it was.

your brain wouldn’t be trying to protect itself from the reality of what happened if what happened didn’t hurt you.

questioning if your trauma “counts” as trauma is a sign of trauma.

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mychaoticstoughts

11 months ago

Just looked at a blog where the header description said 'sometimes I reblog posts I like so I don't forget them'.

And I feel like that, right there, explains so much about how the site has changed in the last few months.

People now think reblogging is an unusual behaviour, rather than a default.

Tumblr newbies, please, for the love of baby Jesus, reblog the posts you like. That is the whole reason the site exists - for you to collect all your shiny fandom objects in a single space. Which you can organize to your heart's content. Or not organize at all, if that's your jam.

Our blogs are intended to be collections of posts, not collections of likes.

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mychaoticstoughts

1 year ago

What Save the Children means to say but is too terrified to is:

Due to ISRAEL's genocidal bombing, more than 10 PALESTINIAN children per day, on average, have lost one or both legs in Gaza. Name the crime. Shame the perpetrator. https://t.co/isbsn2dpO6

— BDS movement (@BDSmovement) January 8, 2024

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mychaoticstoughts

4 years ago

I dreamt I was making pancakes tonight*-* after a couple of frenetic and busy dreams, this came as a very pleasant surprise this morning, I love pancakes*-*

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Pancakes just a dream on pancakes a lovely dream

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mychaoticstoughts

10 months ago

Fun, someone said the words “prior authorizations” around me and now I’m pissed off at 730am on my day off. I go off on this rant all the time. ALL THE TIME.

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mychaoticstoughts

1 year ago

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mychaoticstoughts

1 year ago

I love being a nobody on here because I could make one of those ‘if this gets ‘x’ amount of notes I’ll go and actually work on my original works’ and it wouldn’t get near the goal

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