[agirlwithachakram]

Actually the portrait of Charles is red to represent enthusiasm, energy, determination, passion, strength, leadership, and love. It doesn't matter that it looks like he's walking through fountains of blood spilled by the British empire! Some of you people need to learn color theory

[erebus0dora]

i was WAITING for this post

[talysalankil]

tumblr coming across the painting:

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

I think part of the reason so many women have PPA and PPD in astronomical numbers now is because trying to care for a baby is about 8 million times more complicated than it ever used to be and all parenting advice comes not from a place of common sense with balanced risk assessment, but from a place of pure fear and trying to live with zero risk, which is impossible

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

They fear if they don’t have the chest clip just right every time they enter the car, the baby will get in a crash and die and it’ll be their fault. They lay their baby down in the swing and are greeted with a giant warning label that if you don’t lay the baby with precision perfect technique, the baby will probably die and it will be the mothers fault, not the manufacturers. They lay their baby on their back but the baby doesn’t sleep, but if she dares do what is necessary for the baby’s rest and let him sleep for a few hours on his stomach during the day, surely the baby will die and it will be her fault.

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

I will probably lose many of you when I say this, which is what makes it a truly unpopular opinion, but the modern obsession with car seats is a prime example of fear based rhetoric btw

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

No, really. The advice and standard practices aren’t “here’s what will work and how to live practically”

The advice is “here’s all the ways your baby could potentially die” and for some reason we think this is healthy?

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

“Here’s all the ways a baby could possible die — including unlikely freak accidents — and let’s make all of our decisions based on this fear and paranoia”

We used to call this mental illness. Now we call it standard parenting advice.

[gentle-traditionalism]

A lot of (not all) the “safe sleep” practices are a prime example of fear-based parenting causing actual harm. Some people will not allow anything in their baby’s rock-hard crib - not even a sleep sack - and then won’t let the room itself be warm in winter because it ‘might cause suffocation’. Ma’am, the reason your baby isn’t dying in his sleep isn’t because he’s really that safe, it’s because he’s so uncomfortable that he’s not sleeping. You can’t die in your sleep if you don’t sleep. And then mom and dad don’t sleep either, and nobody seems to address how dangerous that can be. Severe sleep deprivation can cause psychosis and a variety of health issues.

And now it seems that it’s become common for mothers to continue this practice even when their child is no longer an infant? I saw one woman on tiktok doing all the “safe sleep” practices with her three-year-old, and I see plenty of children at the daycare I work at not even being allowed a blanket at two. We follow all the safe sleep practices as we’re required to, but the fear surrounding it drives me batty.

[photografya-deactivated20230917]

[contagiousgrace]

hard to leave Tumblr for any period of time because someone could drop a vital piece of personal lore that's essential to unlocking whatever they are vaguely posting about for the next several months/years

[kirbybaker-the-alch]

I think all computers should have cd slots and all phones should have headphone ports send tumble

[windsdaughter]

this is called instinct injury.. instead of being held up and comforted by other sovereign mothers, having the deep inner knowing that your body is made for pregnancy & birth and all the mysteries it encompasses, women go into pregnancy anxious, lacking knowledge & confidence, and seeking the approval of mommy or daddy obstetrician/midwife for every moment. its collective bodily insecurity.. i'm so uninterested in mainstream mommy content

[tuxankhamun]

it should be illegal to call things wool or cotton or what have you if they contain more than 0% synthetic fibres

[tuxankhamun]

i hate when you're looking for something so you search for like "wool trousers" and you find dozens of results and every single one of them is like "85% wool, 15% polyester" you have no right putting wool in that product name sir

[engulfes]

Taking a walk because it feels good going to bed on time because it feels good waking up earlier because it feels good eating enough fruit because it feels good doing a workout because it feels good cooking myself a nice meal because it feels good staying in contact with friends because it feels good… sometimes joy is work but it’s always worth it

[kaijuno]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

It’s all starting to make sense

[hopefulmillennial]

Ohhh

[lanndscape]

[gentle-traditionalism]

I think the 1950s trad gals might have finally gotten to me.

[rylandgraces]

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers 2002, dir. Peter Jackson

[unaliveish]

pavel nechaev

[gentle-traditionalism]

I feel incredibly silly asking this, but could you all please pray that I’ll meet somebody at a Christian young adults’ event tomorrow? My brother met his girlfriend (potential soon-to-be fiancée) at this event, and claims that there are a number of good men there as well.

[cottaqecore]

jess keogh

[dress-this-way]

~ Eight Biblical Tests for Decision Making ~

[hopefulmillennial]

These are really good. I’ve gone and made big choices without thinking this way and boy, that could have gone better.

[populusfennicapatriam]

Two Sami boys lured a salmon from Tenojoki river. Utsjoki, Finland. (Antti Hämäläinen)