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I had nightmares last night that were so vivid and pervasive and downright theatrical that I can only describe it as my brain attacking me (as any time I relaxed even a bit, the images immediately came back) and so tonight I can’t go to sleep because it’s legit too scary. I can’t do that again...
So it’s 349am and now I’m hungry and already dreading tomorrow and, even worse, tomorrow night.
kids also just want to feel understood. whenever a kid’s scared of something, I think it’s our instinct as adults to tell them it’s not scary, there’s no reason to be scared, etc. but to a scared child, that reassurance means nothing. they’re scared, so telling them that’s the incorrect feeling doesn’t really accomplish anything.
instead, I often find success telling them “this scares me too, and this is how I handle feeling scared,” and then I give them some mental tools.
It works ALMOST every time. Example: when a kid’s afraid of bugs, I say “ew me too! They’re sort of creepy! What scares you the most?” Then when they tell me (the legs, the eyes, etc.), I tell them a cool fact, or I try to make the feature seem funny.
It doesn’t have to be true. I’m not actually afraid of bugs. The point is validating the emotion while teaching the child that it’s possible to exist and get on with things even while feeling the unpleasant emotion.
I’ve found some kids even have a natural want to comfort others, which can work too. During a thunderstorm, I can say “you’re afraid of thunder? Me too! Will you hold my hand? I think that will make me feel better. What will make you feel better? What about watching a movie?” Then I tell them how much better I feel being together watching our movie, and I thank them for being brave!
I think kids get a lot out of just feeling like we’re in this together. When the assumption is that adults know and can control everything but for some reason refuse to acknowledge and destroy things that scare them, the world must be so confusing. I’m not a psychologist or anything. I’ve just spent a lot of time working with children, and I get a lot of mileage out of basically just letting a kid know that grown ups feel and experience the same things they do, and that we can navigate it together.
JUST some thoughts.
It’s simple, but it’s because as adults, as people when we are afraid we don’t want to be told “That’s not scary.” What we need to hear is “You’re not alone. We will face it together.”
I'd be a much better parent if I read this at least once a day. Probably more like once an hour...
I had a very strange dream about my eye, an eye dr, and a bad eye disease that was going to leave me unable to drive a car. In the dream, I asked my husband if it was real or a dream and he told me it was real.
However, based on the fact that Joe Biden was involved in my visit to the eye dr, I feel pretty confident that it was, truly, a dream - but I’m still scared to touch my eye right now...
Benji, Beagle (5 m/o), Union Square, New York, NY • “Squirrel obsessed.”
This is the most beagle thing I’ve ever seen...
Posted at 3:05am...
Grant K. Gibson, an interior designer in San Francisco, doesn’t own a vacation rental, but for the past three summers he has rented a cottage in Castine, Me. He brings his own vases, candles, sheets, pillows, tablecloths, plates, silverware, paper lanterns and other accessories to make it feel more like home. (To cut down on luggage, he has many of the items shipped to the house.) As soon as he arrives, he takes down the owner’s curtains, rearranges the furniture and hides any ugly rental décor in the spare bedroom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/realestate/creating-a-standout-vacation-rental.html
I’m sorry - what? It took us the better part of 8 years to have functional window coverings on all of the windows in our apartment and this guy changes them out in a VACATION RENTAL???
A friend from college was recently attacked and basically had his lower jaw destroyed. He has surgery scheduled for next week, but he doesn’t have insurance and has been unemployed due to COVID. The discounted cost of the surgery is $31,000+.
If you have a few extra dollars this week, he has a gofundme set up.
First and foremost thank you for your time reading this. My name is Erik Bentle… Erik Bentley needs your support for Erik Bentley's Jaw Reco
I'm a skeptic at heart but today I feel like trusting people and if I'm wrong, so be it. If you feel like joining me in having some faith in people and donating $ to someone you don't know, well, you know what to do...
they do this so that they can prove people use the library, figure out what books are popular so they can make sure to get more like it or further entries in a series, and to figure out what times the library is more buisy while ive never killed a person in a library (yet) i do sometimes unshelve additional books to boost the statistics thus resulting in increased funding for the library, however small
This certainly takes the stress away of trying to figure out where to put a book back
YES!
Not only do people often put the book back in the wrong spot, but knowing that the book was looked at is important. Our circulation system has a category called “in house check-in” that we use to check in the books that we find on tables and other “put back” bins.
it’s especially useful in the children’s area when parents will read a bunch of books to their kid while in the library but then don’t check any out to take home
Wow...
How did the 100-year-old Maryland Baptist Aged Home in West Baltimore get to mid-June with no coronavirus infections of its residents or its staff? It took the threat seriously from the start: When he heard President Trump say in February that U.S. cases would soon be "close to zero," the Rev. Derrick DeWitt, the nursing home's director, knew it was time to act.
I love this but am also shocked that it’s such a small story, and that it was/is still not being held up as a model. What happened here was amazing.
They’ve literally done everything that has ever been recommended during this pandemic, and beyond. The dedication and thoughtfulness by everyone involved is obvious and amazing, and makes me embarrassed how my employer and others have handled things.
They did it before it was even recommended!
DeWitt and his staff did all this before seeing directives from government agencies. “We didn’t wait for guidance from the Centers for Disease Control or from the Maryland Department of Health or from Baltimore City,” he says. “We did what we thought was prudent at the very beginning of the pandemic.”
Imagine if the entire country's directives had been put out by this guy. Imagine how different things might look...
One of the more interesting aspects for us of all this is doing laundry. We live in a high rise with a communal laundry room in the basement.
It seems to us that people who don’t live in apartments with communal laundry rooms are baffled by how much effort is involved in all of this. (And I fully recognize we’re luckier than people in apartments *without* laundry who still need to go to laundromats.)
To minimize contact with others, we’ve been holding out longer in between trips downstairs and doing it late at night. As a result, I finished tonight’s laundry at 12:50am.
This is what’s involved in doing laundry for us:
Wash hands.
Put on mask and shoes.
Ride elevator to basement.
Put laundry in washers.
Ride elevator back upstairs.
Remove shoes in hall, step inside.
Carry shoes in, spray with Lysol.
Remove mask.
Wash hands.
(Wait 40 minutes.)
Wash hands.
Put on mask and shoes.
Ride elevator to basement.
Move laundry from washers to dryers.
Ride elevator back upstairs.
Remove shoes in hall, step inside.
Carry shoes in, spray with Lysol.
Remove mask.
Wash hands.
(Wait 60 minutes.)
Wash hands.
Put on mask and shoes.
Ride elevator to basement.
Remove clean laundry from dryers.
Ride elevator back upstairs.
Remove shoes in hall, step inside.
Carry shoes in, spray with Lysol.
Remove mask.
Wash hands.
Collapse.
Reblogging this because I can’t stop thinking about it. This whole thing is really bringing to light how insane living in a city like NY really is...
Fellow NYC residents... Mount Sinai has started a survey to track for COVID-19 clusters to see when and how they spread. There’s an initial short survey and then a quick daily check-in around symptoms, etc. It’s quick and easy, and it seems like it could be helpful.
If you live in NYC, text “COVID” to 64722 to get started.
Here’s a link as well: https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2020/mount-sinai-launches-covid19-app-to-track-spread-of-virus-across-new-york-city-pr
Mount Sinai Launches COVID-19 App to Track Spread of Virus Across New York City | Mount Sinai - New York
(I read the privacy policy and it seems not too bad. They reserve the right to hold your data forever, and they do ask for your name and DOB, but they’re anonymizing it all. They also reserve the right to share the survey results with the federal HHS Department and other agencies, but the data shared will also be anonymized.)
Just realized I can dye my hair crazy colors during quarantine because no work and no guilt re: my current dye job because it’s going to be ages before I get back to a salon.
I’m thinking purple.
Quarantine is looking up.
Artist Fong Qi Wei continues to create time slice photos of picturesque locations using a fascinating reinterpretation of landscape photography.
cool…
Reblogging for myself. Sorry if you’ve seen it 100 times...
plague inc. easy mode be like
I mean, thoughts and prayers have solved our gun issues so it stands to reason it would solve coronavirus too...
Tbh, I hadn’t really gotten behind any of the dem candidates because I honestly didn’t want to have a vested interest at this point because #votebluenomatterwho (and the real hero, the person who manages Bloomberg’s Twitter account, isn’t running) but I definitely shed a few tears reading Warren’s farewell... because this shit is frustrating...
Now we just hope Joe picks a killer running mate (so that they can take over in 4 years) and can bring it home.
So many lives literally depend on it.
y'all.
you really do have to vote blue no matter who.
bc RBG deserves to retire.
She turns 87 next week and she's had cancer four times, twice in the last year.
Liberals already lost their chances at taking the Supreme Court for a generation in 2016. The current makeup is 5-4 for conservatives, which means sometimes liberals can eek out a win, like the case that preserved the Affordable Care Act.
If Trump gets to replace Ginsburg with a conservative who will be on the Court for forty years, with a 6-3 majority, it would be devasting.
You're not just voting for a President for the next four years. You're voting for Justices (and lower court judges) for the next forty.
