[oldmanpeace]

[classycookiexo]

[chicks]

[classycookiexo]

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

You're in the audience of a Wendy Williams show

Your picture appears on the big screen

Wendy says "Look at this person. Do you think they look nice?"

Scattered applause, yours is the loudest

After 30 seconds of awkward silence, Wendy says "This afternoon they were trampled to death in a studio audience."

The fire alarm goes off

[femininitemagazine]

[devils-queen]

✞ 666 ✞

[thehmn]

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.

[objectlessondujour]

The psych nerds found out ages ago that punishments that make the child think for a few minutes (about one minute or year of age until they're tweens) is much more helpful to develope social intelligence and understanding than punishments which prevents thinking, like the ones that involve pain. In fact, corporal punishment encouraged lying, extreme reactions, violent outbursts, go figure, they don't trust you.

[bogleech]

This is all really fucking serious and important and I'm mainly reblogging for that, because this correct mentality needs to be spread around more, but I'm also reblogging because I absolutely lost it at the child who dreads having to wear the normal blue hat of shame.

[aconissa]

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

[happyheidi]

look at these little darlings !!

bopeep_valaisblacknose

[siksikkesin]

[xvqtyx]

[cyberxbattalion]

[whoisomni-deactivated20150307]

[mayothompson]

hey man can my inner child get a bump too

[ilikeit-art]

[skaiandestiny]

[pyjama-llama]

The mechanics behind it are pretty simple too:

The white-hot liquid glass is hot enough to light the branch on fire.

While the branch is catching on fire, the liquid glass coats it completely, trapping the plant matter away from oxygen, and it can't continue burning without oxygen.

That's how you catch the branch in the state of "plant catching on fire", without advancing to the "plant burnt" state.

[kenjus-benjus-jedi-wayseeker]

The physics and artistry of this are fascinating but I love how they have to cut the molten glass with shears like it’s unruly fondue

[classycookiexo]