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strong stoic man with sad past: *adopts child*

me every single time:

how universal of an experience is having the giving tree read to you as a small child and being distraught even tho the teacher seemed to think it was a nice story. also is this a gendered phenomenon. do girlchildren know on some level that they’re the tree not the little boy

Children designated as “gifted and talented” frequently melt down because of this story.  Boys and girls both. I’ve heard many G&T educators say they don’t bring The Giving Tree or The Rainbow Fish into their classrooms at all because of it.

Wow, what is it about gifted and talented kids that makes those stories hit them so hard?

Because those stories are innately about what to do with gifts and talents, and in the case of those particular books, children often interpret them as “give up all sense of self and bodily autonomy, and carve yourself to pieces to make other people like you.”

Here’s my friend unpacking The Rainbow Fish on the topic.

^ That last comment really succinctly illustrates 90% of my mental health issues.

Yesterday, I was in yet another deep spiral of self loathing, and the CORE of it stems from this very fucking message. If I’m not saying ‘yes’ to everyone, I’m selfish and mean. No one will love me if I say ‘no’.  If I’m not valuable to others, I’m worthless.  If I’m better than others at something, I can’t be proud of it, it would be rude.  Give give give give give.  I cannot make demands of others without feeling guilty.  I can’t speak my mind against others.  I freeze up.  I tumble into depression and dark thoughts to the point where I cannot function. I have the worst form of imposter syndrome: Am I a nice person?  I can’t be. A nice person would just suck it up and keep going.  Stop complaining.  This anger that you feel?  It’s wrong.  You have to forgive and shut up.  Their feelings mean more important than your own.  They said something terrible, it’s not their fault.  It can’t be.  They are stressed.  If you stand up for yourself you are just ignoring their pain.  You need to be the bigger person, even if it’s killing you.

The tree gives so much it destroys itself, and we as kids are taught that self-destructive behavior that solely benefits others is not just admirable–it’s correct.

ASOIAF AU ♕ After marrying King Joffrey Baratheon and becoming the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, Sansa Stark, woefully unhappy, finds solace and joy in her close relationship with the King’s sister, Myrcella.

reblog with a book that you think has one of the worst movie adaptations

my self control is dead

*white parent voice* i cant believe kanye and kim named their baby North West!! thats ridiculous!! oh no, its almost 4:30, i need to pick up my kids Mackaylikiah and Ashleighyie from their water polo practice!

I always reblog this post so fucking fast every time it comes on my dash my phone shuts down the tumblr app and reboots

McKarty 64 is my favorite Mario Kart game.

My favorite part is that the blog post the photo was taken from detailed this mother’s decision-making process and chose this name because her husband saw it on a road sign on the way home

She named her daughter after a road sign

a road sign

there was a girl at my school called “zona” cause he parents went on holiday to spain and saw it and thought it was a nice name. IT LITERALLY MEANS ZONE

“47 month old”

this is my four year old rayman origins

“Who’s doing your surgery?”

“Dr. Rayman Origins.”

THE APP REBOOTED FOR ME!!

i met a kid once whose name was “Ryce” and his mum said it was pronounced “Reese”

the best part is she was originally going to spell it “Rice”

My auntie knows a family who decided to name their daughter Owen, but they spelled it “Oin” and they made her middle name the first sound that her big sister made which happened to be “Oogok”. her name is literally “Oin Oogok Puscus”

Oin Oogok Puscus is my favorite dwarf from the Hobbit

Yo I work at a rec center in a rich neighborhood and these are some real names of white children:

Salter Tryge (pronounced Trig) Loots Pocket Aughyst (pronounced August) Taileigh Lotiss Leviathin (yes spelled like that) Bacchus Daniyal (a girl, pronounced like Daniel)

All real

This shit is hilarious

@kaiiwooo

I can’t

47 month old.

Nayvie….. Bish whet????

this is from my kid’s valentine’s list this year like this corny fake unique name thing is no joke yall this is all of the boy names 

47 month old.

I refuse to go on knowing someone named their child “Salter” I’m so done ✌🏿️

Treyton lls, I’m dying…

I know a person from college who’s name is literally “Smile”, l can’t even explain how ridiculous that is…

47 month old

47 month old

Damn suburban moms love to put unnecessary “Y’s” in names.

<b>47 month old<b/>

47 month old.

Somebody named their kid Pocket?!?!???

I am cry wheeze laughing at this post, and then when I got to the bottom I had apparently already hearted it at some point in its life?

Anyway, bless little Christopher’s parents. My god.

47 month old tho

One of the classes I subbed in had a kid named Glarison. I’m sorry, did you misspell Garrison?????

OMG IT IS BACK! I CAN FINALLY POST THE ASK I GOT ABPUT THIS!

I went to college and took religious studies courses with a girl named Storm Pagan. She never understood why I found that both funny and oddly appropriate, and I never felt like taking the time to explain.

for the love of your future children, look up what a name means in all languages before you saddle you kid with it until they’re old enough to legally change it.

I took latin in middle school. I don’t actually remember much now, but i’m telling you, it was IMPOSSIBLE to look this girl I knew in passing in the eye because her name was Latrina. 

Latrina.

(For those of you who have no idea why this is unfortunate and hilarious, ‘latrina’ is one of the latin words for toilet)

What the fuck that even sounds like ‘Latrine’ like who looked at that name and went ‘what could possibly go wrong’

In the school I work in one of the nursery classes, there’s a kid named Benju (it literally looks like a misspelling of Benji) and another kid named Akillis but it’s pronounced like Achilles

IT’S BACK ON MY DASH

this whole post ?? pocket ????

Why do parents not want their children to be able to buy cheap gas station keychains with their names on them

B4 u say that you don’t want that same-sex pair on tv to be a couple because platonic relationships are underrepresented

I want you to hear me out on an idea SO outrageous that it might just work

A character

Could be in a romantic/sexual relationship with a character of the same sex

AND

Be in a platonic relationship with a DIFFERENT character, also of the same sex!

GAY PEOPLE WITH FRIENDS: THE RADICAL PLAN

WOAH SLOW DOWN THERE MCPROGRESSIVEPANTS

Modern Disney Ladies

And here is the whole collection. :)

Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney

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Insulting much? 

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OMFG. RAAAAGE!! And people want to make her husband president?? GTFO.  

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Holy. Fuck.