Jo Phillips 🇨🇦

Writing on paper that says It's not the length of screen time. It's the quality of the screen time.

Two hours a day spent doom scrolling is not the same as 2 hours spent connecting, learning, and applying skills.

Update:

I don't think adults need to learn to talk to kids as much as they need to learn to LISTEN to kids.

A blue, pink and white heart with text that says International Trangender Day of Visibility March 31

To all of those beautiful souls who are raising trans kids and loving them as they are, to those who are living as their true selves, and to those who want to but aren't able, I see you, I support you, and I celebrate you.

#transdayofvisibility 🏳️‍⚧️

A kid today in a school presentation:

I know you said you are 49, but I wanted to tell you, you look 39.

So, now I have a new best friend.

Bunny shaped pancakes burned to a crisp

I raised 3 kids & one thing was consistent. I always burned the pancakes.

Now, my 6 yr old niece and nephew are living with me for a bit, so I decided to give it a go again.

Nothing has changed.

Parents who put themselves ahead of their kids or use their kids as pawns can kick rocks.

I know. Fighting words.

Brutal.

A fat orange cat curled up on a couch with his head on a blue pillow.

Date night. He's cute but can't follow the plot in our movie.

I think we should practice staying in wonder more often.

Rather than immediately pulling out our phones & searching for an answer to something we're curious about, think around it.Test your hypothesis. Try a few things. Ask others.

Anything but finding the answer through our thumbs on a screen.

Listening to Gr 4 to 6 kids today.

Question I asked: what skills do you think you learn in video games?

Gr 4 student: well, in video games when you lose you try again but lots of people in real life give up when they lose. They need to learn to try again like you do in video games.

A reminder to those of you who are going through huge life changes:

You are not your job.
You are not your relationship.

And it never was the job, or the person. It was you. And it is still you.

You're going to thrive.

Take it from someone who's been there.

Twice. 🤣

We should be pointing out all the amazing things about their world (and there are many), encouraging them, cheering them on & helping with the bad stuff.

Not telling them there's something wrong with them, or scaring them with things they can't understand yet.

A hill I'll die on.

Asked Gr 10 to 12 students what they'd do differently with their kids. They said they wouldn't scare them with stuff they shouldn't know about.

Adults should not be telling kids that the world they live in is awful.

I can be angry as hell about small mindedness and injustice 😠 and still see the beauty and good that surrounds us.

When we're building stuff for teens, we need to hear what they're saying.

They don't need more activities or projects or programs with an adult agenda.

Most teens I talk to say "give us a safe space to just be and we can figure out the rest."

I think they're right.

Text that reads: Adults: TikTok and YouTube are causing my kid to have a short attention span! Me: That can be mitigated with unstructured reading, or having freedom to create through arts, crafts or invention. Adults: My kids don't like to read. Crafts make a mess. They'll never build something that works. They don't have time because of our activities schedule. Me: comic books count... Adults: BUT SOCIAL MEDIA

Had a dream I met my next partner while I was trying to drive an old school vacuum cleaner around a ramp, kind of like the walkways in the Ewok village.

He was handsome and had kind eyes. And was good to his kid.

So. I'm off to buy a vacuum...😂

I feel like it's time for independently owned, local newspapers who report on facts without inserting opinion or pandering politically to make a comeback.

Let me open a paper and drink my coffee.

I'm sorry to hear.

The key is to over-water, then panic and under-water, then move to the sun, then move away from the sun, and repeat.

I should probably publish a book. 😂

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Manitoba plans to shut down homeless encampments one at a time, finding housing for each person | CBC News Premier Wab Kinew has released a long-awaited plan — involving municipal and Indigenous governments and non-profit organizations — to end chronic homelessness by methodically decommissioning encampmen...

I hope this whole process gets well-reported. It really is the right process.

Cities need to learn everything about how to make it work.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

You too!!

I need people to be more impressed with the fact I've kept my plants alive for as long as I have.

I'll settle for mild acknowledgement.

When Canadians get bored..😉🇨🇦

Light green card with the phrase I read banned books on it.

Canadian library card. 😉

When I was in Grade 7, I walked to the Sundre Library, tucked below a retirement home, and got my first public library card. No limits. No judgement.

I was psyched to get my Edmonton Public Library card today!

Instead, help them find a time or a person who believed in them. And then build toward proving that person right.

If they don't have that person, be that person.