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Like many parents, Taylor Brooks is sick of the constant barrage of technology. Everyone’s face is glued to a screen of some kind. Cell phones, iPads, televisions, and all manner of electronic devices sucking imagination out of our souls. Taylor decided to try something new. She took away her kids’ devices and told them to go out and find something to do. Heavy rains had flooded the neighborhood streets. Everything outside was wetter than wet. Figuring the kids might opt for an indoor activity, Taylor let them entertain themselves. They came up with something wholesome and fun. And the best part is that they helped to improve the mental health of too many people to count. Watch to see their ingenious screen restriction replacement. @tee.bee22 Remember when kids used to play outside? Thanks to the good sports that romped on the gas and even made U-turns to come and splash these kids! ♬ Black Betty – Single Edit – Spiderbait SPLASH US! Standing on the curb next to a relatively deep puddle, the girls held up a sign that urged passing motorists to splash them. Having their devices taken away might be the best thing that ever happened to these kids. You may wonder how this ties into people’s mental health. People arrive in the neighborhood tired and frustrated after a hard day at work. Seeing two kids holding up a sign asking the drivers to do something reckless and fun is priceless. Image from TikTok. No worries. No bad feelings for drenching a poor pedestrian. Just good, wholesome fun and happy smiles for the giver and the receiver. How many smiles or good old-fashioned belly laughs do you think these kids generated? Every time a vehicle passes and they get drenched, they are laughing. Did you notice the twofer? The white Dodge Ram truck must have had a terrible day because he doubled around for a second pass! Please share this wholesome fun. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “Took My Kids’ Devices Away For The Day And This Is What They Came Up With” appeared first on InspireMore.

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An elementary school in Jacksonville, Illinois, is busting through walls—literally—to improve student learning, attendance, and wellbeing by adding some daylight to the depressing classrooms. American schools, especially those designed in the 60s and 70s, were built without windows because people erroneously believed they would be a distraction to learning. But that thinking would today earn […] The post Adding 70 Windows to Illinois School Improves Student Wellbeing and Performance, Confirming Studies – LOOK appeared first on Good News Network.

The New York Times recently published a hissy fit about the White House allowing reporters into the Briefing Room who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris. Here was the amazing protest sentence: “Longtime White House reporters say the result has been an erosion of their independence.” The presence of a reporter who didn’t vote Democrat doesn’t “erode” the anti-Trump animus (“independence”) of liberal activist journalists. It might balance it, suggesting journalism and liberalism are not exactly the same thing. This spurred a trend. Politico’s Ian Ward profiled these invaders under the headline “Meet the 8 MAGA Outlets Disrupting the White House Briefing Room.” It carried the usual labeling about “the divide between the MAGA-friendly media and their more mainstream counterparts.” The extreme hatred of Trump is “more mainstream.” Then came CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, who loves to wade into MAGA crowds, trying to find the dumbest-sounding Trump supporter he can find. In this case, he went looking for the dumbest-sounding White House reporter. The headline over the video was “‘Do you consider yourself a journalist?’ CNN meets MAGA media at White House.” O’Sullivan showed clips of these pro-Trump reporters admitting their bias, and he proclaimed, “These are White House correspondents like you’ve never seen before.” Really? He spotlighted Cara Castronuova of Lindell TV asking if they’ll release Trump’s fitness routine, since he “actually looks healthier than ever before.” In 2009, a Washington Post reporter touted Barack Obama’s “chiseled pectorals.” Then O’Sullivan replayed Real America’s Voice reporter Brian Glenn asking Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “Why don’t you wear a suit?” He suggested to Glenn he was “trolling,” but it’s a question lots of Americans would ask. Natalie Winters from Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast said, “If it were up to me, I’d kick a lot of these outlets out.” In other words, she has the same opinion as CNN, only reversed. O’Sullivan asked Winters, “Do you consider yourself a journalist?” He said many say, “You don’t deserve to be here because you’re not a real journalist.” She attacked the pro-Joe Biden media: “I’m pretty sure the people in there spent four years covering for someone who was essentially dead, and that’s being charitable. … You guys failed, and that’s why we’re here.”   CNN exemplified the point last year when anchor Dana Bash was deeply troubled over bumbling-Biden videos. They were “amplified on conservative media that in some cases are just not right and in other cases are highly, highly misleading of President Biden.” O’Sullivan lectured about the “new media” people: “A lot of them are more cheerleading President Trump than challenging him.” He ended by quoting White House Correspondents’ Association leader Eugene Daniels: The public “needs news produced by experienced, professional journalists who ask tough questions and produce fair coverage.” Under Biden, Daniels wasn’t known for asking “tough questions.” At the 2024 Kamala cuddlefest before the National Association of Black Journalists, Daniels began by gently asking if the American people were better off after four years. Daniels went on shows such as “Washington Week” on PBS and denied Kamala was ever “border czar” and insisted she was a victim: “We’ve already seen a lot of racism and sexism, and that’s going to be a huge part of this campaign.” Then there’s CNN itself. One of the most memorable tongue-bath questions came in 2009, when then-New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny asked Obama what “enchanted” him about being president. Then-CNN anchor John Roberts praised the softball and Obama’s “thoughtful” answer. Zeleny was later hired by CNN. Reporters asking softballs at the White House is nothing new. It’s OK when the “mainstream” does it for Democrats. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Liberals Loathe Arrival of ‘MAGA Media’ Inside the White House appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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