Go, Frenchie!

Watching Olympics women's weightlifting 🏋️‍♀️

What a perfect example to show the importance of watching female sports. The direct impact it has on your self esteem and the confidence it instills in young girls around you ❤️

I just made a 6 year old girl really mad at me in the mall and it was actually a heartbreaking experience

Because I was picking up more moisturiser, and this clearly really young girl and her mother came in to shop skin products, and her mother picked up a combined kit and was like “This is the one you want? Okay I guess” and I took a peak and gently butted in and told her mother I thought that was a really bad idea because she looked super young and those products had a bunch of actives

This little girl was glaring at me like I kicked her puppy while I chatted to her mother, who seemed really embarrassed she didn’t know that, asked some questions, and told me her daughter was 6, obsessed with skincare, said all the other girls at school had similar products, and always watched YouTube videos + Tiktoks about these things.

I told her pretty bluntly it’s a bad idea for young people to use most of these actives/products, gave her some keywords to search online so she’d have a better idea about what to look up and learn more, and suggested maybe they could work on instead building a routine with washing faces with water, a little dab of a very neutral moisturiser and some sunscreen every day (let’s be clear - this little girl does not need a skincare routine, but it’s a compromise without completely shitting on her and helps routine building in life anyway)

I told this kid she was really pretty and she didn’t need anything, and I’m sorry I ruined her fun but I didn’t want her to burn her face with something like retinol or salicylic acid. She was not impressed.

Please chat with the young people in your life about these things, get some rudimentary knowledge if they’re asking for products like this, and please be careful!

A lot of ingredients that children or young teenagers might pick up (due to frequent and heavy branding) that you should keep an eye out for are on this list under either actives, anti-ageing or brightening:

What's crazy to me is that this is a fad. Children weren't using this skincare shit 5-10 years ago. And if you've ever frequented skincare subreddits, forums, or youtube videos, you KNOW these products are fads because of the people who will post about past fads that damaged their skin. St. Ives apricot scrub, biore pore strips, even cerave has had a minor fall from grace. I remember the days of St. Ives scrub followed by Queen Helene's minty mud mask was like the height of skincare pampering. Overuse led to skin damage, skin sensitization, and broken capillaries that these women are now covering with daily makeup.

And those past fads were NOT actives (these chemicals attack the attachments between your cells and cause the top layer of skin to slough off) or anti-aging (retinols get converted to retionoids which make skin thinner and more susceptible to sun damage) or brightening (these acids are skin irritants that can cause sensitization and chemical burns if used incorrect e.g.: if used by a SIX YEAR OLD).

Drunk Elephant and skincare brands marketing online directly to children are behaving so unethically I can't imagine why there's no regulations about this whatsoever. Except, I guess, it's little girls being impacted by this.

What a great lad!!

I can tell this lad has fantastic parents

He’s got those moves down smooth. Either lots of practice or he’s got amazing physical coordination.

Boy with cat, 1949. Source.

This says something about human nature, but what

The delight in the unexpected

A love for the absurd, too!

The joy of potato, also.

idk what it is about kids these days that makes them so funny but in any case my friend just told us about how her younger sister babysits for a 7 and 9 yr old and one day they said they wanted to play “bus drivers” and they made wheels and everything but then the game was just being bus drivers at a union meeting discussing their problems

Creepiest monster thing alive: moves like that

this little girl: 😊☺️😄😄☺️😊🤩

This is so cute omg my heart is going vrooom vroroooooom

Conservatives: 12 year olds are too young to know that they're gay

Also conservatives: they are old enough to give birth

Thinking about this conversation from Discord

Now see, this really pisses me off (the “kids are resilient” thing, not your response to it) because there has been study after study about what actually happens!!!

If the kid receives support during/after the traumatic event, they get stronger.

If the kid does not receive support during/after the traumatic event, they get fucked up.

True resilience in kids has ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS been the result of the support they receive.