the only bad part about going to the zoo is hearing adult men confidently tell their kids or gfs objectively incorrect information about the animals we’re looking at and having to remain silent. do u know the restraint it takes to say nothing when a grown adult man tells someone “falcons are in the same family as eagles” next to me? no babygirl. no.
fyi falcons are not closely related to other birds of prey (hawks/eagles/buzzards). falcons are actually parrots that minmaxed for a glass cannon dps build.
One of the surest arguments that capitalism is an unsustainable nightmare that destroys innovation is the way it’s made it impossible to create an effective education system. We’ve made it financially impossible for most people to let their kids succeed academically.
Illinois just passed a law making it mandatory that all kindergarten is now a full-day program. Most already are. This is being hailed as a huge win for low income working families, and it is… But it’s a huge loss for kids. Full day kindergarten means no naps. We have strong evidence that most children still need daily naps at age 5. “But they can stay awake just fine!” you may think, but it’s not about that. Sleep is the time when our brains convert short term memory to long term memory, and kids 5 and under have reduced short term memory capacity. If they don’t get a midday nap, anything they learn in the morning can be lost. Naps are critical for learning.
In fact, most kids are done napping earlier than that, either in preschool or daycare, because it’s incredibly difficult for childcare programs to get a bunch of ambulatory, verbal kids to nap all together in one space. It’s too noisy, too disruptive. The bedding takes up too much space. So they don’t do naps, and their 3 and 4 year olds lose their morning learning. Half of their days. Because their parents have to work all day. Because their schools can’t afford adequate napping space and their parents can’t afford schools that can.
We know that early childhood education is one of the most important indicators of long-term academic success. Kids that can’t nap will learn less in preschool and kindergarten and start first grade behind where they should be. That deficit will follow them, compounded by the other structural issues of capitalism and its effects on our schools and will create less effective workers for the capitalist machine. And so the machine breaks down because we couldn’t adapt it to the schedules of 5-year-old brains.
Hey, @the-rain-on-your-dandelions, has anyone told you that you’re a genius? That’s an incredible system. I wish I had a friend group that could function for!
I could see this working for dinners, too
it’s like the Mom Friend Anxiety Hack, but for chores.
this is how a society is supposed to function. this is the norm we’ve all forgotten
