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The venn diagram overlap of people who attended vision forum homeschool conferences and people who attended kim clement prophecy nights as children gotta be like 20 people total
End times patriarchy, insane way to grow up
Tucked her into bed and she whispered “I love you Mom, I just wish the whole world belonged to me, I would make everything the way I want it to be”
orphic resonance retweeted
New second edition of Descartes' Meditationes in Latin, as first printed in Paris in 1641, with the woodcut ornaments of that printing and Descartes' own figures of the eye and the nerves.
Imposing metacognition on 5 year olds in the name of “growth mindset” or “learning strategies” is like putting a girl on pointe before 11
It’s deforming no matter how gifted you are, Steiner was right
Daughter age 5 is repulsed by underdog stories, she thinks the most powerful should win even if he’s “the bad guy”, is this developmental or her personality
The matrescence crucible usually involves # 3
The lesson isn’t merely suffering well, but figuring out which suffering is avoidable and which must be borne
If you can avoid avoidable suffering well, you can redirect energy back up to # 1 and 2 and avoid mommy martyrdom
