Grown Body, Child Mind: When the Adult Raising You Never Grew Up

The Karmelo Anthony Verdict and the Outrage From the Black Community

The verdict came down. Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years. And then the Black community showed up, loud, fast, and for all the wrong reasons. Death threats sent to a family that already buried their child. Adults spitting on grieving teenagers outside a courthouse. "F*ck Austin" screamed at minors walking to their cars. All in the name of justice. In this episode, Andrinique asks the question nobody wants to answer: where is this energy when the victim is Black? Because 88% of Black homicide victims in this country are killed by other Black people. Over 8,000 in 2024 alone. No fundraisers. No protests. No celebrities posting. No outrage. The same community that burned down its own neighborhoods in 2020 and called it a movement is rallying behind a murder conviction and calling it racism. And the people who should be leading accountability conversations are leading the noise instead. This episode is not about whether Karmelo Anthony deserved 35 years. It is about what our response to that verdict revealed about us. While you are here, subscribe so you never miss an episode. Then come find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrinique_davis?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr [https://www.instagram.com/andrinique_davis?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr] Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574679670017&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574679670017&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr] Substack: https://substack.com/@andriniquemarie?r=5dpzat&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur [https://substack.com/@andriniquemarie?r=5dpzat&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur] You Tube: https://youtube.com/@andrinique_marie?si=T6fqfMHsi010A1tI [https://youtube.com/@andrinique_marie?si=T6fqfMHsi010A1tI]

Grown Body, Child Mind: When the Adult Raising You Never Grew Up

You have probably met them. The adult who cannot take accountability. Who makes every conversation about them. Who controls everything and celebrates nothing. Who shuts down or blows up and leaves everyone around them walking on eggshells. Now imagine that person is someone's parent. In this episode of Make It Make Sense, Andrinique is getting into one of the most searched and least talked about topics in mental health right now. Emotionally immature adults raising children. How arrested development happens, when the adult's emotional growth got frozen, what it does to the kids living inside that environment, and why researchers are connecting this directly to the mental health crisis unfolding across an entire generation. We cover the four types of emotionally immature parents identified by clinical psychologist Dr. Lindsay Gibson, the neuroscience behind why childhood neglect rewires the brain, the documented patterns of control and jealousy that show up in emotionally stunted parents, and what the research actually recommends for anyone healing from this right now. If you grew up feeling like your emotions were too much, like approval was something you had to earn, or like no matter what you did it was never enough, this episode was made for you. Subscribe, follow, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it today. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrinique_davis?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr [https://www.instagram.com/andrinique_davis?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574679670017&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574679670017&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr] Substack: https://substack.com/@andriniquemarie?r=5dpzat&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur [https://substack.com/@andriniquemarie?r=5dpzat&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur] YouTube: https://youtube.com/@andrinique_marie?si=T6fqfMHsi010A1tI [https://youtube.com/@andrinique_marie?si=T6fqfMHsi010A1tI] Ebooks: https://andrinique.gumroad.com/l/czyonq [https://andrinique.gumroad.com/l/czyonq]

Delete the Shame, Not the App: Removing the Stigma of Dating Apps for Women Over 50

If you have ever deleted a dating app before a friend could see it, laughed it off before someone else could make the joke, or felt embarrassed to admit you are on Bumble, Hinge, or Match at 50 plus, this episode is exactly what you need to hear. The stigma attached to dating apps for women over 50 is real, it is loud, and it is completely unfounded. Nearly 35% of all online dating users are now over 50. Women in their 40s and 50s are one of the fastest-growing demographics across Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Match, and Silver Singles. And 27% of couples who married in 2025 met on a dating app. The women using these platforms are not desperate. They are decisive. In this episode, Andrinique breaks down exactly where the stigma came from, the specific lies it tells, why the internal shame is the most damaging part, and how women over 50 can start talking about this openly without apology. Because the goal was never the app. The goal is love. And you do not have to be ashamed of wanting it. Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrinique_davis?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr [https://www.instagram.com/andrinique_davis?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574679670017&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574679670017&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr] YouTube:  https://youtube.com/@andrinique_marie?si=BY2ftqQ94tPL7 [https://youtube.com/@andrinique_marie?si=BY2ftqQ94tPL7OxL] Subscribe, follow, drop a comment, and share this episode with the woman who needs to stop hiding and start living.

When Did Black Prom Become " Hood Prom"

On this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, we have all seen the videos. Girls on horses, Rolls Royces in front of the projects, with building entrances blocked. This episode asks the question nobody is brave enough to answer: why? We get into the history behind where this performance mentality came from, the research on why Black households spend more on visible goods than building actual wealth, who is profiting off this culture, and the chargeback pattern that has the community robbing its own Black small business owners. And we end with the hardest question of all: if there was no camera, no Instagram, no TikTok, would the horse still show up? Timestamps: • 0:00 Introduction • 2:00 What Black prom has become • 8:00 The history: Sunday best, Civil Rights, and where the dignity went • 15:00 The research: conspicuous consumption and what it is actually costing us • 22:00 Who is getting paid off this culture and where the money goes • 28:00 The chargeback pattern and the community robbing itself • 34:00 How other cultures celebrate without going broke • 40:00 What would change if even 10% of this money went somewhere it mattered • 44:00 Final thoughts Food for thought: How did we get to a place where the performance became the point? When did dressing up stop being about dignity and start being about likes? And why are we spending thousands to impress people in a comment section while the kids in those pictures have no savings, no plan, and no safety net? The real question is not whether we can afford the horse. It is whether we can afford to keep thinking this way. If this episode made you think, follow the show, subscribe wherever you listen, and drop a comment. Make It Make Sense is the conversation Black culture needs. Do not miss an episode.

The Generation Gentle Parenting Built

In this episode Andrinique dives into one of the most talked about and most misunderstood parenting philosophies of the last decade: gentle parenting. What started as a legitimate, research-backed correction to punitive parenting has been hijacked by social media, stripped of accountability, and turned into a performance. And the children raised inside that performance are now adults who cannot handle a no, cannot sit with disappointment, and in documented cases, are showing up to job interviews with their parents in tow. Andrinique breaks down where gentle parenting actually came from, what its four core pillars are, how performative parenting took over the conversation, and what forty years of developmental research says actually works. This episode is not about shaming parents who were trying to do better. It is about telling the truth about what doing better actually requires, and what is at stake if we do not course correct right now. This one is for every parent, educator, and anyone raising or working with the next generation. It is too important to keep to yourself. Subscribe to Make It Make Sense on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and wherever you listen to podcasts. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. SHOW NOTES [0:00] Introduction: What Andrinique has been watching on social media and why this conversation cannot wait any longer. [2:30] The moment that started it all: parents on camera talking to toddlers like they are in a therapy session, getting eye level with a child who just hit someone and asking how it made them feel, while the child who got hit stands right there unaddressed. [6:00] The real-world data: one in four recent college graduates brought a parent to a job interview. Thirteen percent of those parents spoke on their child's behalf. This is the generation we built. [9:30] What gentle parenting actually is: the origin story, Sarah Ockwell-Smith, and the four core pillars including the one social media conveniently left out. [13:00] How social media hijacked a legitimate philosophy: the aesthetic, the validation scripts, the never saying no, and the new identity of the gentle parent complete with a Pinterest board and a comment section full of parents congratulating each other while their children run the household. [17:00] Performative parenting defined: what it looks like, how to recognize it, and why parenting for an audience is not the same as parenting for a child. [21:00] What the research actually supports: the critical difference between authoritarian and authoritative parenting and why forty years of developmental data backs one model consistently over every other approach. [25:30] What is happening in classrooms right now: teachers reporting children who cannot tolerate a no, have no framework for consequence, and expect to negotiate every instruction. Social anxiety in young people now classified as a public health crisis. [29:00] The middle ground that works: how to be warm and firm in the same breath, why consistency matters more than perfection, and what it actually means to prepare a child for the world they are going to live in. [32:30] The closing word: breaking cycles is real work and it deserves credit. But your child does not need you to be their friend. They need you to be their foundation. Resources Running on Empty: https://andrinique.gumroad.com/l/czyonq [https://andrinique.gumroad.com/l/czyonq] Calm on Command: https://andrinique.gumroad.com/l/rawiov Read the full article: https://substack.com/@makeitmakesensewithandrinique?r=5dpzat&utm_medium=  [https://substack.com/@makeitmakesensewithandrinique?r=5dpzat&utm_medium=ios] Connect With Andrinique Substack: https://substack.com/@makeitmakesensewithandrinique?r=5dpzat&utm_medium= [https://substack.com/@makeitmakesensewithandrinique?r=5dpzat&utm_medium=ios] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrinique_davis?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr [https://www.instagram.com/andrinique_davis?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574679670017&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574679670017&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr] Ask Sonnet 4.6