a series of deliquescence, sugared tongues and tactile sensation

lil thought wombs and emotional flesh wounds

[helianthus-annuus777]

[whiskersofthenight]

Bad behaviour is the consequence of hurt: the one who shouts did not feel heard, the one who mocks was once humiliated, the constant cynic had hope snatched from them.

This is not an alternative to responsibility, it is just a knowledge that acting badly must be a response to a wound, and never an initial ambition.

[millennialmontessorian]

Ms. Anne Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller, was a great admirer of Maria Montessori.

In 1915, she gave a speech discussing her views on the then current educational system, which she thought was failing children. Crazily and sadly, 100 years later that system hasn’t changed much.

But luckily for us, women like Ms. Sullivan and Helen Keller — and Dr. Maria Montessori, “that wonderful woman” who “systematized these ideas of education” — left for us their wisdom and spirit, found in their great words and deeds.

Throughout her talk, Ms. Sullivan offered glimpses of just how radical and uplifting her (and Dr. Montessori’s) educational approach is, noting that “what [Helen Keller] has accomplished without sight and hearing suggests the forces that lie dormant in every human being.”

Let us awaken those forces — both in our children and in ourselves — and reap the rewards today.

[themontessoriacademyofarlington]

Infant - Group Meal Time

We often eat snacks and lunch in small or whole group settings. Our older infants show mastery of drinking out of open cups while the younger infants are exploring the use of a cup and watching their peers as role models. The children are given plates, cups, and silverware at each meal. They are not forced to use the silverware, just given the opportunity to use these tools and associate them with eating. We recommend real foods for lunch like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and various sources of protein like eggs or meat. We also encourage baby led weaning where the child is introduced large soft foods like avocado slices, bananas, and cooked sweet potato that they can grasp and practice chewing and swallowing at a young age, beginning at 6 months. 

[parentingblog]

“You cannot raise your children the way your parents raised you, because your parents raised you for a world that no longer exists.”

-Anonymous

[owlmylove]

can we like…. talk about what a healthy relationship with technology looks like? not just for us, but for future generations: its super easy for us to accept tech unquestioningly bc many millennials and gen-Zers grew up alongside the growth of tech, and had a naturally evolving level of exposure to it. but what about the 5 year olds with tablets? the 8 year olds with perfectly curated instagrams?? i’m as obsessed with my phone as the rest of us, but can we please stop simply bemoaning how none of us read as much as we were kids and start exploring how all these screens might be affecting the kids growing up right now?

[owlmylove]

i work in customer service and please know that i am not baby-boomer aggrandizing when i say i have seen so many children, literally toddlers, dead-silent and completely, utterly absorbed in tablets bigger than their heads. i’ve seen a shitton of pre-pubescent girls posing for pictures together, planning their angles and backgrounds, and checking what shots their mom took bc they’re worried “they might look fat.” like. i’m talking 7 year olds. this isn’t meant to be some holier than thou bullshit, this is me being legitimately terrified about a problem i really haven’t seen any of us discuss or even acknowledge

[natura-non-facit-saltuss]

In one of my psychology classes the teacher told us about a study that showed that toddlers nowadays have a hard time learning how to write and do fine motor things because of the skip the stage of learning with their hands and all they do is swipe and click.

[owlmylove]

oh!! my god!!! that is an incredibly literal/physical symptom of these newfound techno-reliances we’ve formed. a professor of mine referred to it as our “tech fetishization,” this expectation that all updated forms of tech are innately and unquestionably good things. we see technology as an amorphous, abstract concept vs. a substantive influence in our mental, emotional, and physical states but holy shit it really, really is

[mixingpumpkins]

@ y’all in the notes completely missing the point and thinking this is about millennials turning into the ‘Thomas Edison was a witch!’ or ‘kids these days!’ crowd…

Look, I fucking love technology. I love what the advancements in my lifetime have been able to make possible. The sheer amount of information and communication and creative tools available is incredible, and I often wonder how different my life would be now if I’d grown up with all these things available and accessible. (How many more things would I know how to do? How much more music could I have written? How much more art could I have produced? Could I have started my own businesses sooner? How many more people from how many more places would I know?)

But the things in the above posts are problems. I see plenty of bitching now about the effects that ‘TV / video game babysitting’ had on you - you think handing a 2-year-old a tablet to shut them up isn’t just another incarnation of the same thing? 

We bitch about how fucked up algorithms are all over the internet, and you don’t think kids having nearly unmonitored access is a problem? You don’t see a potential for how this could be fucking someone up? Open a YouTube page as a new user (with zero history, cookies, etc.), click on an innocuous video, and let autoplay run for a bit. It gets weird real fast. (Even with filters.)

As difficult as ‘don’t worry about looking like the people in the magazines, they don’t look like that either’ was for us, you don’t think there’s a potential for more damage with social media etc. now? Everybody has access to filters and photoshop etc. The whole ‘influencer’ thing is that ‘anybody can be a star, you can make yourself, you don’t have to wait for a studio etc. to discover you.’ Seven-year-olds obsessing whether they look fat or if their instagrams can compete with some random person who’s edited the shit out of their photos (and they’re not a movie star, just a random person, so it must be real!) is messed up. 

Kids coming into schools with lower vocabulary levels because they haven’t heard as many words from people by a certain age - because it’s easier to sit them in front of a pretty, addicting game to keep them occupied and behaving than spend the time interacting with them person-to-person - is messed up.

There are so many amazing tools we have now that are awesome for helping kids learn and grow. (I would have killed to be able to have ‘how to’ videos on YouTube when I was a kid - there were so many things I wanted to learn that if my parents didn’t know or the school / library didn’t have resources on, I was SOL.) But I’d love to see actual conversations about the problems growing up with tech is causing - without it devolving into the usual thinkpieces and comments that do just break it down as ‘tech is bad!’ or ‘tech is fine, ya loser dinosaurs!’ There’s absolutely a healthy balance here somewhere. I just don’t think people are all that invested in finding it. 

[sableaire]

This is an absolutely vital conversation to have, and it often gets shut down as a “fear of progress.” No, we need to acknowledge that technology evolves exponentially faster than our biology, and we need to examine what that means and what kind of repercussions that might have on our future generations.

[preschooldr0pout]

[quotestuff]

““The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.””

— Maria Montessori

[radicalanarchism]

“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.”

— Maria Montessori

[lamignonette]

Frances Butler: Quilted Coat, 1969–1970; fabric, dye. (Hippie Modernism/BAMPFA)

[inthemarginalized]

“The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.”

—

Agatha Christie  (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976) was a crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. 

[jai-by-joshua]

Valentino S/S 2019 Haute Couture ft Makeup by Pat McGrath 

[redlipstickresurrected]

Snail Scott (American, b. Edwardsville, IL, USA) - Ghost Construct from the Armature series, 2012  Sculptures: Wood, Ceramics

[redlipstickresurrected]

Magdalena Morey (Polish, b. 1974, Lublin, Poland, based Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain) - Serenity III, 2018 Paintings: Acrylics, Watercolor, Pastels, Gold Leaf on Canvas

[diffiddent]

[rubyetc]

millenial dillemma 

dilemillenial, or a less bad portmanteau 

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.”

— Philip Arnold