Merry Christmas, frens

Merry Christmas once again 🙏

This pup designed a jumper in school and her granny made it for her to wear.
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by @get_happiness via @r2tBot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XWF4sLVihQ

The subject of this one is clothing, specially male and female. Father quotes Cardinal Siri & speaks of our current culture regarding clothing.

Literally the best thing a parent to a highly sensitive/intelligent, courageous child can do is to funnel them toward the trades where they will remain debt-free and ensure they maintain a dignified, excellent intellectual life in private. And when spots open up, to take them.

A mother's greatest responsibility is to provide for the emotional needs of her children. As long as their survival needs are met, children can grow up perfectly healthy without most modern luxuries and comforts. A child who grows up in a log cabin in the woods with no luxuries, but a mother who nurtures their proper emotional development, is far better off in the long run than a spoilt rich kid with all the latest toys and games and an absent, selfish, or harsh mother.

A mother must have the time, energy, temperament and wisdom to teach her child how to regulate their own emotions. Otherwise, the child learns to externally regulate, leading to addictions of all varieties, personality dysfunction or disorder.

The overall emotional health and intelligence of our population today is as poor as the state of their physical health. What does a person who cannot regulate their own emotions look like? They cannot calm themselves down independently when upset or angry, everyone else has to calm them down. They may also struggle with self-motivating when they feel flat or bored. They cannot cope with work or life stress without alcohol, anti-anxiety meds, maybe weed, maybe caffeine or stimulants, hell it can even show up as excessive need for attention on social media, promiscuity, other forms of hedonism. Externalised coping mechanisms and addictions take many forms, many of them relatively subtle. Poor empathy is also a consequence of emotional dysregulation. Even procrastination is linked to emotional dysregulation.

Motherhood truly is a dying art.
For young women I think your best bet is to:
1. Learn as much as you can about astrology. It can help you get to know your child's individual emotional needs, even before they're old enough to express or articulate them. It will also help you learn about yourself and your own emotions more deeply.
2. Get your hands on a few developmental psychology textbooks and learn about the stages of development and different approaches to the discipline (attachment theory, Maslow's hierarchy, Erikson's 8 stages, Kohlberg, Piaget, etc)
3. Spend as much time with children as you can, nannying/babysitting, etc. As the video linked above demonstrates, it takes a whole seperate set of social skills to interact effectively with babies, and more practice always helps.

My theory is that one of the reasons for the current resurgence of interest in spirituality is that these disciplines and practices are helping people learn how to emotionally regulate, and unlearn unhealthy habits conditioned into them from parental neglect or inadequacy.

https://chastity.com/qa/is-making-out-wrong-everyone-i-talk-to-gives-me-a-different-answer/ this is focused on the women's side.

Exultet • Catholic wedding filmmaker.
https://www.bodas.net/video/exultet--e165543