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eroscestlavie

She’s pissed we haven’t turned on Supernatural yet (it is her favorite show)

eroscestlavie

We turned it on

vanilla-bean-buttercream

On my hands and knees begging adults to allow children to engage in risk play.

And by risk play I don't mean handing them a gun and playing Russian Roulette.

I mean like climbing trees, getting so sick spinning on the swing they throw up, balancing on the curb, sitting in the mud, walking on slippery surfaces, building half ass ramps to ride their bike over, standing on rocks, or anything that involves a smidgen of confidence and out of the box thinking that could result in injury.

Obviously like watch your kids and such, but when we talk about the fun of being an 80s or 90s kid, it's not just talking about CDs and Walkmans or not having iPads. It's about how kids today were robbed of critical learning and experience skills we were allowed to have.

Playgrounds disappearing, helicopter parents, and sue culture really destroyed a child's development in the United States, and I think it's about time we as adults recognize that, because the kids sure have.

just7frogsinapeoplesuit

You know what happens to kids who don't get to take reasonable risks? They never learn how to gauge safety or control their bodies in risky situations.

A kid who never climbs a tree becomes an adult who falls off a ladder because they don't intuitively know to keep 3 points of contact when climbing.

A kid who never skins their knees launching off a swingset becomes an adult who shatters an arm because they never learned how to break a fall.

Kids who are allowed to take risks become safer adults.

just7frogsinapeoplesuit

This crossed my dash again, so here's a more thorough list of things risk play is necessary for:

- Developing pain tolerance & an understanding of which types/intensities of pain are "okay" and which need immediate medical attention

- Calibrating the inner ear (sense of balance) and learning how the body reacts to experiencing different things, essential to learning to control the body in unexpected situations

- Developing reflexes and subconscious safety instincts (e.g. protectively throwing up your hands when an object flies toward your face)

- Normalizing getting hurt so the first reaction to an injury is just to treat it (and not to have a fearful emotional meltdown)

- Learning how to treat and heal from injuries (beginnings of self-care)

- Developing appropriate levels of fear around various activities, desensitizing fear around doing harmless things and establishing a fear response for actions that caused an injury. This is key to properly gauging risk in new situations.

- Building confidence, independence, curiosity, problem-solving skills, and acceptance of failure

Additionally, the reason it's so essential to mess around and get hurt as a kid is not just because it's a critical developmental stage, but also because kids' bodies are growing and naturally resistant to major injuries. A 3rd grader can get launched off a bike onto the pavement and only sustain a few scrapes and bruises that will heal in a few days, while someone who's 30 would likely pull or sprain something (or worse) and take weeks to heal.

If you are someone who grew up not being allowed to take risks it is likely you have a low pain tolerance, fear surrounding physical activities, slow reflexes, and poor judgment. The good thing is that it's never too late to learn! Our brains are very malleable, so if you missed out on this stuff as a kid now is the time to go climb a tree, go on a hike with unstable footing, or join a casual sports team. Just start small and work your way up, since your body won't be as resilient as it was when you were 9 :)

#and it's fun #and can also help with emotional regulation

mato-ciqana-deux

The famous Falkirk Wheel, which links the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.

thatdarnyeti

Holy Frijoles!

elodieunderglass

I would love to take a narrowboat through this, but possibly not one I was living on. Someone else’s boat. A rental.

jackironsides

I have been to the Falkirk Wheel! I made sure to go when my dad was visiting, bc I'm a nerd about the canals and he's a civil engineer, so I knew he'd get a kick out of it.

It's really easy to take a trip on the Wheel. There's a boat that's attached to the visitor centre: you see it enter the lower chamber during the video. They take you up to the top, and then a little while later take you back down again.

All the fun of using the most outlandish lock out there, but without having to worry about damaging the lock or your boat by navigating it yourself. (As Elodie no doubt knows, narrowboats are made of steel, and much harder to damage than e.g. your average fibreglass boat. There's still ways, though.)

deanwasalwaysbi

This is the perfect moment for Vine to do the funniest thing possible

thickness-protection-program

Tragic. Tumblr user made a good point but was unnecessarily condescending about it. Will not be reblogging

thickness-protection-program

"you're a monster if you can't reblog." Well rawr girl rawr 🧟‍♂️

mesimees

AM radio is like literal magic. There is music all around us that we can't hear, and to hear it you just have to tap a crystal (diode) to the earth and listen to it with another magic rock (magnet) and a tin can. You dont even need electricity to make it work because this music around us is literally all the power you need. Oh and at night when the sun has set, the light of the day gets replaced by MORE music because the signals can travel further at night. This is magic. If you even care.

sven-a-la-mode

just found out that eu means extended universe and does NOT mean that europe had a different star wars canon than everyone else

kaijuno

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

omtai

How do they choose which sand to be the glass and which sand to be the sand in an hourglass... Imagine you and your best friend were two grains of sand and you had to be in the hourglass and your bestie had to be the glass. Ur together but youve never been more apart. A Sick and twisted practice hourglassery is...

omtai

This was me off 1 chocolate croissant

fatherwildlife

crunchygranoladyke

i know i've said this before but i'm going to say it again because the more i work with geriatric women the stronger i feel about the fact that the only anti-aging that women in their 20s/30s should be obsessed with is building strong bones and muscle mass. that's like the most important thing you can you can do right now to lay a good foundation for healthy aging. you can botox the shit out of your face but that's not going to do anything to save you from dying prematurely from a fatal hip fracture that you can't bounce back from because you didn't do anything to prevent yourself from becoming frail and breakable. like i know that sounds harsh but that is reality for a lot of older women and i don't want that to be you.

golvio

Also, strengthen your back (especially your lower back) and your knees to prevent chronic pain from muscle weakness in those areas, and regularly practice getting up off the floor from a lying position.

sorrelchestnut

Someone told me once that the biggest predictor for healthy aging (absent other internal factors, like cancer or heart disease) was the ability to get up without using your hands. Ever since I've practiced to the point that I can get from full prone on the floor to standing without having to push myself up off the floor, and I make sure to do it several times a day. It's amazing how much more confident I feel about my body and what I can do with it when I have that baseline to fall back on.

kristinagehrmann

All of this!

I started resistance training at 29, not to get jacked (which I'm not, by the way, because I never tried to bulk - it's actually quite difficult), but to stay stronk so I can draw. And it's working! Also, my lower back was hurting because of underdeveloped muscles. Strength training completely fixed that. I will yell about this to everyone who wants to hear it (or not, sorrynotsorry)

Also, if you hate exercise you might appreciate that strength training has lower barriers to entry. With proper instruction, you can't hurt yourself, and unlike with intense cardio you're not getting super sweaty and out of breath.

mobgoblin

Queued right up for it

marzipanandminutiae

I saw someone online saying that they were just leaning close to each other to hear their conversation over the music

and like

I don't know about you but I definitely always put my hand on a friend's thigh when we talk to each other in a loud space. and she wraps her hand around my arm. that's the best way to hear someone over music. it's Necessary. duh

gulistan-blog

㋡🥀

colors of the sky.

stitchthisfiona

He sits on my lap while I spin, he does the little jiggle

maxterian

azzandra

In Romanian the verb "a toarce" means both "to purr" and "to spin wool".

sandmandaddy69

girlballs-archive

how the hell is hiding in my bathroom going to keep the driveway clear

girlballs-archive

shinraalpha

i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

elodieunderglass

The mileage on this one is totally normal Elrond. Hey speaking of can I park him here for a while

the-birth-of-art

h/t to @namasteinside for the lol

zinjanthropusboisei

In "Unfinished Tales" there's a section where the Fellowship gets Gandalf to tell his side of the story about how he recommended Bilbo to Thorin's company and this is literally how it went down: