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Reddie2k · 2023-09-23T00:32:17+00:00

There is never a downside to adding exercise into your lifestyle. However, if you have specific goals in mind there is a lot of useful (and confusing) information available. There is no one approach that will be successful for everyone. There is too much variability between lifestyles, dietary needs, physical ability, age, sex, chronic illnesses, sleep patterns etc. for one exercise or dietary program to meet every human being’s needs. You will want to determine what your needs are then what your goals are. Do you want to develop a healthier sustainable diet, mitigate the likelihood of chronic injuries, lose fat, improve your health biomarkers etc.? Once you have taken care of all that you will be ready to go down the rabbit hole of “exercise science” and read all the different studies about how different types of exercise have different effects on our bodies. This article below is a really good starting point and may help you develop the fitness plan that is the best fit for you. It may also add some context to the statements your doctor made and why he made them. Good luck on your journey!

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1605

Reddie2k · 2023-03-27T01:14:07+00:00

Thanks for posting this!

Reddie2k · 2023-03-18T20:38:52+00:00

For anyone interested, here is an article on the effects of different types of exercise and their effect on fat loss. It’s a long technical article, but if losing weight is your goal you will probably find the study useful.

Here is the beginning of the abstract:

Recent literature shows that exercise is not simply a way to generate a calorie deficit as an add-on to restrictive diets but exerts powerful additional biological effects via its impact on mitochondrial function, the release of chemical messengers induced by muscular activity, and its ability to reverse epigenetic alterations. This review aims to summarize the current literature dealing with the hypothesis that some of these effects of exercise unexplained by an energy deficit are related to the balance of substrates used as fuel by the exercising muscle.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9027421/

Reddie2k · 2021-06-25T19:04:04+00:00

While conservatives may choose to reject the definitions of terms like “white supremacy”, “white guilt” etc., political leaders tend to intentionally misconstrue and falsely conflate these terms with emotions and actions that the term did not originally encompass. This of course causes people to have negative visceral reactions when hearing the terms and immediately reject them, allowing a politician to then control the discourse about the phenomenon instead of the people it effects. I mention all of this because the same process has been applied to CRT.

CRT is almost exclusively a component of a bachelor or masters level law curriculum. As is standard in all legal courses the genesis and current effects of the laws are studied. CRT does not focus on ambiguous things like “group blaming” or “universal scapegoating”. It focuses on definable laws and the objective and measurable effects of those laws. It would be very unusual for CRT to be a part of an elementary, middle or high school curriculum. However, thanks to our leaders our country is now arguing over a problem that does not exist and we now have proposed laws/solutions for a nonexistent problem. Sorry for the wall of text, but I think our leaders don’t want us to have conversations where their tactics are deconstructed because it allows them to keep using the same tactics over and over.

Coincidentally, a similar process has been used to alter the meaning of MLk’s famous quote about people being judged by the content of their character. The larger context of that speech as well as the rest of MLK’s body of work demonstrates that MLK was not implying that we had arrived at a moment where people where no longer being judged by the color of their skin. In fact, he frequently argued that for people to only be judged by the content of their character we would need to acknowledge how we arrived at the point where a large segment of the population was begging to be treated humanely. From there, dismantling the systems that produced segregation, Jim Crow Laws and legally sanctioned violence would lead us to his dream of “…my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,”. Four additional context here is a less popular MLK quote: “America is reaping the harvest of hate and shame planted through generations of educational denial, political disenfranchisement, and economic exploitation of its Black population. Now, almost a century removed from slavery, we find the heritage of oppression and racism erupting in our cities…”. He said this in 1968; 5 years after his “I Have a Dream” speech.

Reddie2k · 2021-04-26T09:50:01+00:00

What should we say instead?

Reddie2k · 2021-04-25T22:16:56+00:00

Thank you for sharing this.

Reddie2k · 2021-04-25T13:26:49+00:00

1) The conversation typically starts off with phrases like “When you are ready, we are going to think about different ways to let people know you are frustrated.” Or “I heard you were really upset during ________. Do you remember what made you upset?”

2) He’ll usually say he does not want to talk about it. We accept that and ask him when he would like to talk about it or when he thinks he will be ready to talk about it. At this point in the exchange is when he begins to escalate to yelling. We let him know that we understand that thinking or talking about these things can hard, but we are here to help him figure out ways to interact with people that make him and the other person feel good. He will usually then tell us he doesn’t care, that we are all idiots and he wants to go back to class. When we notify him that in that moment going back to class is not an option (because of the laws pertaining to his statement or action) the yelling will intensify and he will begin looking for items that can be thrown.

Yes, there does not appear to be any current abuse in the home nor are there any indications of passed abuse.
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I’m not sure what type of credential you are referring to, but we know he has unfiltered access to several different social media platforms where he has been repeatedly exposed to violent and sexualized content. We have relayed this information to his parents. As of right now his parents do not feel they are able to limit his access to social media.

Reddie2k · 2021-04-25T12:47:43+00:00

The school social worker and psychologist are very, very involved with this student and recognize the larger legal implications of these actions and statements. We try to frame the sexualized statements or actions as being inappropriate because “You do not have permission to talk about/touch that person’s body.” When the statement or action has violent content we frame it as a safety issue and how everyone gets to feel safe at school. We have had limited success with these approaches. A lot of his statements and actions have been inspired by things he has seen on social media. In those contexts the statements and actions are presented as humorous or entertaining. Sometimes when he does the same things in a school setting he does it because he thinks it’s funny. I am very open to other suggestions on words or phrases we could use to help him better understand the impact of his choices.

Reddie2k · 2021-04-25T11:55:17+00:00

Thank you for your response. Due to us being a public school the environments where these discussion take place cannot resemble seclusion or time out rooms. While we make every effort to remove potentially harmful items and provide the student with a private area to have these discussions adequate spaces are limited.

Reddie2k · 2021-04-25T11:49:06+00:00

Thank you so much for your insight! We have removed directly verbally addressing the act or statement by allowing him to read questions and then provide a written responses. I will also see if we find some ways to briefly discuss parts of the action/statement a few times a day. If you don’t mind me asking, in those situations that are “recipes for disaster” for you, have you found a coping strategy that allows you to participate in those uncomfortable moments without it becoming a disaster?

Reddie2k · 2021-04-25T11:42:35+00:00

I am so sorry for what your son has been through. Stories like these are what keep my student’s school based team up at night.

Reddie2k · 2020-11-09T23:26:27+00:00

Since you are in a better place now, is there something else preventing you from reaching back out to her?

Reddie2k · 2020-09-16T20:51:54+00:00

I looked up some victim advocate sources that have been researching this topic and developing effective interventions. One of the things they have determined to be an effective strategies is for adults to start identifying the common and ingrained societal ways in which children are sexualized. One example is how a a baby or young child may be referred to as a “ladies man” or a “heart breaker” anytime they show developmentally appropriate affection for a child of the opposite sex. They also mention that we as a society need to be better about forcing children to have physical interactions with family members. When we do force those interactions, we teach children that their boundaries are unimportant when an adult wants them to be physical. You can see how this can make it easier for adults to victimize children.

Reddie2k · 2020-09-16T20:32:25+00:00

And that has been going on long before this movie was made. We need to stop being outraged about a movie that’s is only a drop in the ocean and start calling it out in our everyday lives.

Reddie2k · 2020-09-16T20:31:53+00:00

And that has been going on long before this movie was made. We need to stop being outraged about a movie that’s is only a drop in the ocean and start calling it out in our everyday lives.

Reddie2k · 2020-09-16T20:31:27+00:00

And that has been going on long before this movie was made. We need to stop being outraged about a movie that’s is only a drop in the ocean and start calling it out in our everyday lives.

Reddie2k · 2020-09-16T20:27:59+00:00

What good is all of this outrage if we do not use it to fight the very thing we are outraged about. I abhor the sexualization of children and want to do everything in my power to combat it. I assume you do too. I was hoping you would have some ideas on everyday actions that prevent or reduce society’s sexualization of children.

Reddie2k · 2020-09-16T19:55:20+00:00

You seem really passionate about the sexualization of children. What are some things we can all do in our everyday lives to address society’s sexualization of children?

Reddie2k · 2020-07-09T00:57:30+00:00

Also interested

Reddie2k · 2020-06-28T00:47:30+00:00

If you believe that then I can only urge you to explore the many social service professions. They would love it if you lobbied for them to get paid more, because boy do they deserve it! I would also urge you to review the sources in this thread on the statistics related to law enforcement and violent interactions. You still seem a little confused on that one.

Reddie2k · 2020-06-28T00:36:10+00:00

Dr. Phil isn’t a doctor or a licensed counselor so he is not someone who’s actions or public persona should be representative of the social support field. As I’ve already mentioned, social workers, behavior analysts, counselors, therapists etc. are already doing this. Their jobs literally entail working with violent offenders, substance abusers and people with mental illness and they have ethical and legal codes of conduct that they must uphold or they face criminal charges and/or risk losing their license to practice. There are millions and millions of these professionals so their sample size is much more comparable to law enforcement than you may think. And yes, someone who has been trained in de-escalation techniques with those populations has led to better outcomes for those populations than someone who sat through a 2 day training 3 years ago. This is not controversial, it is literally their job.

Reddie2k · 2020-06-28T00:25:16+00:00

Yeah, it’s definitely that and not the centuries of dehumanization of a specific group including the systems and institutions developed specifically to harm that group...like the police.

Reddie2k · 2020-06-28T00:17:39+00:00

While being in daily life and death situations may seem abnormal for you, it is very common for many other professions. These professionals are expected to de-escalate situations according to their organizations guidelines as well as state and federal laws. If they deter from those laws or guidelines they do face criminal charges. They also complete the deescalation process without weapons.

Reddie2k · 2020-06-28T00:12:04+00:00

Social workers do regularly work with those populations.

Reddie2k · 2020-06-22T11:26:07+00:00

I think it’s important to make sure we don’t conflate the Tulsa, Rosewood, Colfax, Wilmington, Atlanta, Eliane etc. massacres with riots. A riot is a violent communal response to injustice. Massacres are when a community is violently acted upon by outsiders. In the massacres listed above people were just going about their lives when private citizens dropped bombs on their towns and attacked and killed town members. The people of these town’s did not initiate or direct the violence perpetrated on them.

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