Day: July 21, 2018

walden-west:

flymetothemoo:

systematicsalvation:

frienclzone:

choking on water is the worst because how do you stop choking? drink something? well ive got some bad news for you

Lean your head forward, preferably to knee level, and let the water kind of drain out of your mouth. When your are able to, take deep slow breaths. No heimlich maneuver or physical assists from somebody else should be used beyond this, otherwise you could vomit and escalate the issue. Its about keeping the larynx open. Hopefully this helps.

Reblog to fucking save a life.

The Heimlich maneuver should be reserved for when the airway is completely blocked. Only in a closed airway can it build up the pressure to dislodge the blockage. If a person begins to choke and cough, but suddenly goes silent, this silence is a key sign that their airway is completely blocked. This is when you should perform the Heimlich maneuver. If the person passes out, and CPR is required, perform CPR as normal. Chest compressions work the same way as the Heimlich to help clear a blocked airway.

vincennesdimanche:

litafficionado:

“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…”
–Jorie Graham, in a conversation

And my partner adds: Yes, but teaching the vocab isn’t enough, access to language isn’t enough. You have to be willing to listen, to hear the words your children are saying. You have to accept what they’re saying, and not mock the language with which they are presented, nor the emotions themselves. Or else your child will learn to reduce and simplify for the sake of another, for your sake as a parent, a caregiver, a family member. They will know how to explain emotions to themselves but be terrified of sharing what they’d learned, of the backlash. They’d have a language in their head, and another language to speak to you, and a third one to speak to children their age at a register and simplicity that won’t get them beat up or ostracized. Language is a two-way street.

lord-kitschener:

I’m not shitting on clueless Western European liberals as some sort of embarrassed whataboutism, btw, but because this willful obliviousness to any problems that might challenge the idea that western Europe is this unique gem of liberalism, equality, and peace (OK, sure, there might be problems, but they’re not that bad) hurts people who endure racism/sexism/homophobia, and also absolutely helps fascists camouflage their actions as well as recruit, especially among more “normie” people