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gertieparr

tiinamenzel

soundsofmyuniverse

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Who’s that hiding under the sheets?

awed-frog

This is, like, the opposite of a horror movie.

choliemonster

@lifethroughfingertips @antigoneblue

hobs-birb

https://shareblue.com/roy-moore-recently-argued-that-women-arent-morally-suited-for-public-office/#.Wh9qzuPKzTI.twitter

entropvy

baby: *incomprehensible babbling*

me: WHAT!? really??? no way :0

thelibrarina

This is actually really good for babies’ brain development. You’re laying the groundwork for conversation, teaching them through example that people take turns talking and listening.

Did you know that babies from affluent families hear an average of thirty MILLION more words before age 5 than babies in families below the poverty line? For context, Les Miserables is about 650,000 words and it looks like this:

So it’s like reading this book 46 times.* And that’s not the total number of spoken words, that’s the GAP between affluent and poor babies. And these are the years in which the brain undergoes the most development. It’s mind-boggling.

So what I’m saying is: keep doing the thing. Do it to all babies, all the time. Narrate your day. Ask them for opinions. (“Should we buy the large bag of potatoes or the small bag?” “Gaabooglagje.” “Yes, just as I thought.”) Point out colors and shapes and letters. Let them scribble outside the lines and treat their babble like talk. Sing them nursery rhymes and Raffi songs and songs from the radio. All of these things are going to build their brains to prepare them for kindergarten and beyond.

*Please do not read Les Mis 46 times to an infant. They don’t even care about the Parisian sewer system.

yillenhaals

error202

I loved his sister lol

egberts

also part of growing up is realizing that the embarrassing music you liked in your early teen years still goes hard as hell

6lacksoul

strayhopes

It’s been said before but if public libraries weren’t a fact of society and were proposed today they would be roundly rejected as pie in the sky communism

kbrock9146

“FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE???????? FREE BOOKS?!?!?!?!?!?! For….. POOR people????? That’s socialism!!!!! You’re a communist!!!!!! How DARE you suggest that we supply reading material to the POORS. I mean, are we even sure that they can read?? And how would we know that they would bring the books back? They would probably sell them to get drugs. Those people…. always trying to get drugs from the inner city. That’s what these libraries are, I tell you: a way for the poors to get drugs. They always use these ENTITLEMENTS and we, the rich people, are left holding the bag. I won’t stand for it. I won’t let these people read free books. A line has to be drawn somewhere.”

exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti

Malcolm X on "Progress"

twixnmix

Preach! He deserves a federal holiday. RIP brother Malcolm

twixnmix

“They won’t even admit the knife is there.”

just-shower-thoughts

Contractions function almost identically to the full two-word phrase, but are only appropriate in some places in a sentence. It’s one of the weird quirks of this language we’ve.