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Published by Danni Miller on June 5, 2019
Our girls are being killed with kindness.
There's a growing trend to tell girls (and the messages promoting kindness are so often directed at young women) that if they were simply kinder, there would be less mean girl machinations, more sugar, spice and playground niceness.
Sounds simple, right?
Too simple. If we're serious about stamping out bullying, we need to stop thinking in trite slogans. Instead, we need to start identifying and addressing the factors that contribute to relational and physical aggression.
And we need to equip both girls and boys with the skills they need to regulate their emotions, and manage conflict respectfully.
To be clear, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a kind person. I highly value people who are compassionate and considerate. Surely most of us do? That's why we feed our daughters on a diet of tales about princesses who are sweet not only towards those who may help them (such as dwarves, and forest creatures) but even towards those who may harm them (enter beasts and evil step mothers).
Research suggests that in fact around 98% of people already consider themselves to be kind.
But sometimes, our girls chose to act out regardless.
Why, and what can be done to modify this behaviour?
Author of Odd Girl Out, Rachel Simmons, told Harvard Ed Magazine this month that, "Girls are still raised with a psychology that is trained to think about other people before themselves. This… is a real recipe for unhappiness."
Simmons isn't suggesting we raise a generation of moral narcissists. But she is suggesting that we should be teaching girls how to be kind to themselves, and value their own needs and wants too.
The road to resentment and burnout is littered with misplaced empathy and compulsive acts of altruism.
We must also be mindful to ensure that our messaging isn't misinterpreted as, "Be kind – no matter what."
And make no mistake, we do still tell girls that they should be friends with people they say they really don't like (often without even asking why they feel uncomfortable with that person) hug relatives they instinctively pull away from, and unquestioningly do as they are told.
Surely if the #metoo movement has taught us anything, it is that turning a blind eye, or trying to placate with acts of kindness, may in fact only make victims more vulnerable.
In her New York Times column entitled "I do not want my daughter to be nice", Catherine Newman explains that, "I bite my tongue so that I won't hiss at her to be nice…I want my daughter to be tough, to say no, to waste exactly zero of her God-given energy on the sexual, emotional and psychological demands of lame men — of lame anybodies. I don't want her to accommodate and please. I don't want her to wear her good nature like a gemstone…".
The uncomfortable truth is that there is also often far more going on with bullies than a mere lack of kindness.
Some individuals who use bullying tactics have been bullied themselves (either at school, or perhaps in their homes), and so use bullying as a maladaptive strategy to feel more powerful.
The three biggest bullies I ever encountered throughout my 25 year teaching career were all later revealed to have being sexually molested in their own homes by family members.
There are plenty of victims of abuse and neglect who internalise their trauma, but for those who do rage outwards, we need to offer far more than snap judgements and mere platitudes.
And ultimately, we also need to engage in some honest self-reflection.
Kids have a finely tuned radar for falseness. When the adults advocating kindness aren't always kind themselves, and when the very leaders of our country not only engage in bickering and back-stabbing, but are rewarded for it, is it any wonder that young people may be cynical about kindness campaigns?
Kindness matters.
But it would be both unkind and untrue to suggest it's going to cure complex issues like bullying.
Sugar, Spice and Stronger Stuff
Published by Danni Miller on August 11, 2011
Teenage girls have been getting a lot of media lately, much of it alarmist, with headlines such as "Do you know what your daughter's doing tonight?" and "Lies, scams and deceit — just your average teenage girl". In on online feature recently, Australian fashion editors had a go at girls for dressing like "streetwalkers".
Girls see this media coverage, too, so I guess it's no wonder they often say to me after an Enlighten workshop that they thought it would be "just another boring lecture about the things we do wrong".
While we must be realistic about the very real issues that girls are facing, I believe it is just as important to recognise the positives and engage with girls, not alienate them. We need to move beyond finger wagging. I know that Martin Luther King Jr wouldn't have inspired anyone by declaring "I have a nightmare!"
Writer Emily Maguire's piece in the Sydney Morning Herald earlier this month, "Sugar, Spice and Stronger Stuff", touches on this issue and talks about how best to help our girls navigate the sometimes dangerous world in which they live. I am grateful to Emily for allowing me to share an excerpt with you here.
Emily Maguire is the author of three novels and two non-fiction books. Her articles and essays have been published widely including in The Monthly, The Australian and The Age and in 2007 she received an Edna Ryan Award (Media Category) for her writing on women's issues. Emily was named as a 2010 Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year and is the recipient of the 2011 NSW Writers' Fellowship. Her latest book is "Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice."
We need a reality check. . . . A minority of teenage girls routinely abuse alcohol or illegal drugs. A minority put themselves at risk of social stigma or criminal prosecution by sexting carelessly. A minority of those who are sexually active don't practice safer sex. But most understand the potential dangers of drugs, alcohol and sex and make choices which minimise those dangers. Those who continue to put themselves at risk need specific, possibly professional, intervention. Impersonal, generalising panic over behaviour is unlikely to change it.
But of course, not all harm can be avoided by even the most sensible girl. There is, for example, the barrage of media messages about their apparent physical unacceptability. According to a 2010 Mission Australia survey, body image is the top personal concern for young people. Sexual assault also remains a major problem with the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society reporting that 38 per cent of female secondary students have had "unwanted sex".
It's scary stuff. Little wonder that some parents are tempted to lock their daughters in a room free of TV, internet and phone. But one day those girls are going to have to step outside and then what?
Although we wish the world was a safer place and should work to make it so, we need to prepare girls to live in it as it is. This seems obvious when talking about boys: of course they need to learn resilience and determination and rebelliousness against those who would hold them back or harm them. But we're still so damn precious about girls. We pretend that passivity and fragility are innate, even as we expend a great deal of energy on instilling and enforcing them.
In her book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, Rachel Simmons details the ways in which adults "discourage the emergence of physical and direct aggression in girls" and "either encourage or shrug off" the "skirmishes" of boys. In one study, adults told girls in their care "to be quiet, speak softly or use a 'nicer' voice about three times more often than boys".
Teenage girls are often criticised for being sullen and underhanded, for resorting to passive-aggressive silences and unexplained bursts of tears, yet we've spent a decade or so training them to suppress. What do you do with the natural teenage rushes of emotion and hormones and excitement and rage when you've been repeatedly told not to draw attention to yourself, not to argue back, not to speak unless you have something nice to say?
We know girls face a sometimes hostile world and yet we train them to be meek in the face of it.
If girls are human then they should be allowed to explore the full range of human experience. They should be allowed to look to rock stars as well as pop princesses, pirates as well as sailors, vigilantes as well as stoic victims. They should be allowed to find inspiration in rebels with or without causes.
Fictional role models are a start, but there are plenty of real-life teenagers who demonstrate courage and resilience. Jessica Watson is already a role model for many teenagers, but how about Ellyse Perry who, at 16, played for Australia in both cricket and football? How about Angela Barker who spent her teen years in a nursing home after suffering a severe brain injury and now campaigns for the rights of young people with disabilities? Or Kalinda Griffiths who began her career as an indigenous health researcher at 17? How about the 170,000 young people who are primary carers for parents or siblings?
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These kinds of real-life examples don't just serve as inspiration to teenagers; they serve as a reminder to adults that teenagers of both sexes are capable of much more than our society gives them credit for.
We shouldn't be surprised. Many teenagers possess powerful self-awareness (the flip side of teenage self-obsession) and a great capacity for constant questioning and insightful cultural critique. What they tend to lack is self-control, the ability to envisage the consequences of their actions and, obviously, life experience. That's why we adults need to have their backs. We can encourage toughness while offering advice on how to minimise damage to the self and to others.
If a girl knows you're on her side — that you won't treat her as stupid or fragile or dishonest or assume she can't handle anything more challenging than buying top-up credit for her phone — then there's a better-than-even chance she'll listen to your advice about when to bite her tongue and when to scream like a banshee. And when something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, it's more likely she'll tell you about it if she knows you won't panic about her lost innocence and vow to guard her with a shotgun until she's 21.
There's the example of the 14-year-old who was at the movies with her friends when a man in his 20s put his arm around her shoulder and asked her to come sit with him. She said no and he went away but she was shaken. Talking it through with her friends, there were suggestions that her outfit was "kind of sexy" and so maybe she shouldn't dress like that any more. Others in the group thought that was unfair: her outfit was amazing and she felt great in it. She just needed to be ready for men who thought she was older or looking for a boyfriend or whatever. Together, the girls came up with a strategy: the next time she (or any of them) had an adult man crack on to her she should say — very loudly — "I'm 14!" and if he persisted, she would — louder still — tell him he should be ashamed of himself for trying to pick up a child.
There's no doubt the ideas behind this solution came from a thousand conversations with adults and peers and from various forms of media. When it came to the crunch, the girls were able to talk it through, support each other and come up with a strategy that acknowledged unfortunate realities while refusing to cower in the face of them. Talk about empowering.
Unfortunately, when the girl told her parents about the incident, she was banned from going to the movies with her friends. Again, an understandable impulse but the girl feels punished for fighting her own battle and will either stop doing so or — more likely — will be sure to keep future battles a secret.
It can be dangerous out there. We can teach girls to be frightened and meek, to aim to be mere silent witnesses rather than victims. Or we can teach them to fight, not just for themselves but for others who can't. We can teach them that the world can be terrifying, and that sometimes, they should be terrifying right back at it.


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This Is Hillary's America
by Wallace Garneau | Apr 23, 2021 | Politics,
I'm going to open this column with a controversial statement. I believe most readers will initially laugh at the obvious absurdity of it, and then, as you go through the rest of the article, I believe you will not only agree with me, but will shudder at the implications of it all. The controversial statement?
Hillary Clinton is the most influential figure on the political left over the past 50 years.
Give yourself a second to laugh before I show you just how accurate a statement this is…
Hillary Clinton's relationship with Saul Alinsky is well documented. She called him her mentor, wrote gushing letters to him, and wrote her thesis on his methodology. What most people overlook is that she told him that her life's ambition was to take Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, and rather than using them from outside government to attack the country from without, she planned to embed herself deep within government, using Rules for Radicals from within, both to sow seeds of division among the people, and also to turn American institutions against one another, until the power of government would rip our nation apart.
Like a rotting tree, we would appear strong right up until the moment we break.
Hillary Clinton's intelligence is often overshadowed by her ego, and well, it should be. I truly believe that Hillary Clinton sees herself as the most intelligent and most morally pure person on the face of the Earth. That's ego. But she is also very intelligent.
Hillary Rodham had the self-awareness, as a college student, to understand that she had the charisma of a broken lawnmower grinding over the public's feet. As such, she tied herself to the most charismatic person she knew – Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton is kind of the antithesis of Hillary. Hillary Clinton is motivated by a very deep-set and specific political ideology, whereas her husband's only ideology is that of the relationship between power and skirts. Bill Clinton had no real political agenda (beyond using political power as an aphrodisiac to get ladies), so Hillary Clinton married him, and threw herself behind his political career.
Ironically, Bill Clinton was, looking back, arguably the best Republican President since Ronald Reagan. He declared that 'the era of large government is over,' and in many respects, he carried Ronald Reagan's economy forward. Bill Clinton did some progressive things, such as having the Federal Reserve manipulate banking to separate the ability to pay for a house from the ability to buy one (leading to the crash of 2008), but he also did a lot of things, economically speaking at least, that were very conservative.
I contrast this with, say, Donald Trump, who, conservative as he was in some ways, was no fiscal conservative, and who was, overall, somewhere to the left of Bill Clinton.
Saying that Donald Trump was to the left of Bill Clinton might be controversial today, but remember that the political left has moved much farther left over the past 30 years. Donald Trump's coalition included a lot of people who 30 years ago would have been Democrats. I dare say that if Bill Clinton ran on his 1992 platform today, he'd be a Republican.
Interestingly, Hillary Clinton's husband ran the country as a very conservative Democrat when Hillary Clinton is a Saul Alinsky apostle. One would think she would have pushed her husband further left. My guess on why she did not do so is two-fold: 1) I think she recognized that the country was not ready for it, and she wisely put her husband's fame and his political success ahead of her agenda, and 2) I think it was important to her that she gets credit, meaning that she wanted to be the one to implement her plans.
Hillary Clinton rode her husband's charisma to fame, and after her husband's eight years as President, she began her own political career, first in the Senate and then with two failed Presidential runs in 2008, and 2016.
Once again, her shortcoming was her ego.
In 2008, she ran against another Saul Alinsky follower in Barrack Obama, and the Democratic Party just plain turned on her. This was probably based on Obama having charisma, whereas Hillary Clinton even rubs her own supporters like a coarse-cut cheese grater.
What did Obama do as President? He started to implement Saul Alinski's Rules for Radicals from within government, both to sow the seeds of division within the people, and also to turn American institutions against one another, using the power of government to destroy our nation from within.
Yes – It was Barrack Obama who actually got to turn the country against itself, using the power of the Executive Branch to implement Saul Alinski's Rules for Radicals from within, but where did Obama get the idea for doing so?
I'm guessing Barrack Obama read Hillary Clinton's dissertation.
After Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton wanted to run against the most unelectable Republican out there, and the media did what it could to help Donald Trump win the Republican Primary, before then taking a full-court press against him in the General Election. Without the press working with Hillary Clinton, perhaps Ted Cruz would have become President. We shall never know. What we do know is that both Hillary Clinton and the media underestimated just how unelectable Hillary Clinton would prove to be.
In retrospect, Hillary Clinton was never going to be President. She was just too unlikeable of a person. But her desire to use the power of government, and particularly of the Executive Branch, to destroy the country from within, using Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, proved to be the basis of Barack Obama's Presidency, and now whoever is managing Joe Biden is going all-in on the same thing.
In a speech Hillary Clinton gave to the partners of Goldman Sachs, a manuscript of which was leaked to the public, Hillary Clinton told Goldman Sachs not to pay any attention to her public political platform. Her public platform was just to get her elected, she said – it had nothing to do with what she planned to do, once elected. Once elected, she told Goldman Sachs, she planned to put together a ruling body, consisting of Big Business, Big Tech, the Big Banks, and government. This coalition would then collectively run the country and its economy, with her at the head. The media would act as this ruling coalition's mouthpiece.
We have witnessed the unification of Big Business, Big Tech, the Big Banks, and a left-controlled government. This is Hillary Clinton's vision to a tee. With the help of our media, which is the mouthpiece of this ruling coalition, we are witnessing the systemic dismantling of our nation, with our government institutions being turned against one another from within. Everything Hillary Rodham (now Clinton) told Saul Alinsky she would do some 50 years ago – it is all coming true right before our eyes.
Everything we see today, from the BLM/ANTIFA riots to climate change alarmism, to the false narratives about gun violence and police brutality – understand that much of this is being driven by Democratic Senators and Representatives, as well as Biden Administration members, who are using our government institutions, in coordination with Big Tech, Big Business, the big banks, and the media, all to destroy our nation from within.
Who do we elect into office, and who do they in turn place into government service? People who tell us all of the innumerable ways in which they have been oppressed by our society. Victimhood has become the most potent of political capital, and it should come as no surprise that when you take people who see themselves as victims of society. You then put them in charge of society; they look for revenge rather than looking for solutions to societal problems. We heard "Maxine Waters' solution just the other day – her message to the American people is to burn the country to the ground. We heard Chris Cuomo's solution just the other day as well – he said that we would start to see reform once white children are the ones being killed.
The fact that Hillary Clinton is watching from the sidelines, writing stupid books that blame her own voters for her losing the 2016 election, is irrelevant. This is still her America.
Hillary Clinton may not be the implementer of her vision, but she was the architect. And this is why Hillary Clinton is the most influential figure from the political left over the last 50 years.
50 years from now, after the United States has been a single-party fascist oligarchy for long enough that people begin writing openly about it, historians will remember that Hillary Clinton was the person most responsible for the end of the American Republic, next to Saul Alinsky himself.
Wallace Garneau is a two-service military veteran, with four years in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, and four years in the US Army. He has twenty-three years of experience in process improvement roles, having served as the E-Commerce Manager, IT Manager, and Director of Business Systems for a variety of medium to large manufacturing companies. Wallace holds a Bachelors of Science from the University of Phoenix, and an MBA in Lean Manufacturing from the University of Michigan. Wallace is currently finishing a Masters of Science in Lean Manufacturing, at Kettering University.
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Portugal. The Man has just released a new trailer for their fall 2013 tour. The video features awesome live shots of their latest stage setup – a giant mountain visualizer in the back drop, which was incredible to see live with their older art being projected on it. Songs featured in the trailer are "Purple, Yellow Red and Blue,""Evil Friends" and "Atomic Man." Check out full tour details here, and don't forget to check out the trailer below after the jump. Purchase a CD here or buy concert tickets here….


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Gov. Tom Wolf Signs Bill To Limit Robocalls And Telemarketers
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) – Gov. Tom Wolf signed a bill that puts legal procedures in place for robocallers, including requiring them to provide an opt-out.
Before the bill was signed Friday, there was a "Do Not Call" list that Pennsylvanians could put their names on. However, re-registration is required every five years, only protecting people from pesty robocalls for a short time.
"The current 'Do Not Call' list in Pennsylvania, you have to re-register every five years," State Rep. Lori Mizgorski of Shaler told KDKA's John Shumway on Sept. 24, when the bill was awaiting Gov. Wolf's signature.
It's part of the reason Rep. Mizgorski drew up a bill to amend the 1996 Telemarketer Registration Act.
"Now with the new registration, you can register one time and it's permanent," Rep. Mizgorski said. "It will also extend the 'Do Not Call' list to businesses. On legal holidays, they won't be able to do the phone calls or make the robocalls."
The legislation will also require telemarketers and robocallers "to provide an opt-out at the beginning of the phone call."
Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill, Bill 318, on Friday.
You can register on the "Do Not Call" list here.


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Paul Merson column on Duncan Ferguson, Freddie Ljungberg and Chelsea's transfer plans
Paul Merson has his say on Duncan Ferguson's infectious passion, Arsenal still failing to turn things around and Chelsea's need to add in January
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Duncan Ferguson has put the fun back into football and it's a CRIME more managers don't show the same passion.
The fist pumps. Hugging the ball boys. The connection with the fans. I love that. That's the game. That's what it's all about.
I've been a manager. What a buzz when your team has just won a football match.
But some of them just sit there in the dug-out when their team has scored like it doesn't even matter.
He NEEDS this. He wants to be a manager. You can see the passion running through his veins. And the Everton fans loved it.
It was so refreshing. This is what football should be. Some managers just sit there scowling on their £100,000-a-week like it doesn't matter to them.
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But it matters to Duncan Ferguson. I'm glad he's been given another game on the back of that. He deserves it.
Those players looked like they would run through brick walls for him. So Manchester United better watch out this weekend because they will be facing a different animal.
Everton looked half beaten before they even got on the pitch sometimes under Marco Silva, and when they went a goal down it was game over.
But fair play to Duncan Ferguson, it was back to the old Everton. A team full of tigers getting in your face and making it hard to play.
That's what the fans want. He got them back on side and the place was rocking. The atmosphere was phenomenal.
Duncan Ferguson celebrates (Image: Everton FC via Getty Images)
They were closing people down and making tackles all over the pitch. That's what Everton are about. That's what the fans expect.
It was always a hard place to play, Goodison Park. It should still be. And that team has quality. It's capable of winning at United.
I would go with the same gameplan, have a go at them, give them no space to breathe and get into them right from the kick-off.
But he's bought himself a game where he can go and park the bus now if he wants because they performed so well for him.
It will be interesting to see how he approaches it because we don't know what he's all about tactically yet.
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But no-one should under-estimate him. He's been there a long time, knows the club, knows the players and obviously the players love him. Otherwise they wouldn't be putting a shift in.
Everton are obviously looking for a more high-profile manager long term. But I think you ride it out with Duncan Ferguson before you make any big decisions.
I'm really pleased he's the manager this weekend and he'll be relishing this game. He had some battles with United as a player and he will get the players right up for it.
Everton are desperate for success. They're a sleeping giant. And it's a good job. An attractive job. If they bring someone in now, the new man just has to keep them up.
But let's face it, this Everton team is not going down. There is too much quality in it. Gylfi Sigurdsson, Richarlison, Seamus Coleman, Lucas Digne – they have decent players.
Richarlison, who also scored against Chelsea, has untapped potential (Image: Getty Images)
They are better than their league position suggests and they should be with all the money they've spent.
But they don't have to rush into anything with Ferguson there. They might think: "Let's look at it and see how long we can go with this."
If he gets them on a good run, why replace him? Wait until the summer when there might be more managers available and willing to take it on.
Everton are not getting relegated so why rush? He's had a good start, let's see what he can do over the next few weeks.
Then when they have to make a decision they can make sure they get it right.
Freddie Ljungberg has failed to shine as Arsenal caretaker manager (Image: REUTERS)
Arsenal are going to struggle to find a big name to replace Unai Emery because it's just not that attractive a job any more.
Freddie Ljungberg has found out just how much work there is to be done at that club. Without being horrible, their game against West Ham was one of the worst I'd ever seen for 60-odd minutes.
I think they want him to do well, steady the ship, get through the season and not panic into getting a new manager.
But they are not a top four club. And they don't need a ten-minute fix, they need a long-term plan.
They won't be getting Brendan Rodgers now. There's talk of Carlo Ancelotti but would he be there for four or five years? Probably not.
And why would someone like Max Allegri take it? He's just managed Juventus. This league has Liverpool and Manchester City in it and Arsenal have no chance of challenging them.
Arsenal get beat this weekend. I said last week that United would test City, and they did. But I can't see how Arsenal do.
Will Freddie get it full time? No chance. I'd be shocked if that happens. I think they want a big name. But they might have trouble finding one.
Frank Lampard has a decision to make when it comes to recruiting in January (Image: Getty)
If Chelsea do the right deals in January they can book their ticket to a top four finish now their transfer ban has been lifted.
They are right in the hunt already but they have teams breathing down their neck now and the youngsters could do with some help.
They need a centre forward to take the load off Tammy Abraham for a start. He's done brilliantly but you can't rely on him alone for the rest of the season.
I think Olivier Giroud will go. He's hardly played and isn't getting any younger. So they will need to replace him.
They might need a more experienced centre half if Antonio Rudiger isn't going to be 100 per cent for the rest of the season – and they need a left back as well.
But they don't need major surgery. I don't think they will spend big. Frank Lampard was a hard-working player. He will only want to buy that type of player.
He won't want to be paying £80m for a superstar who just does enough in training and doesn't pull his weight in matches.
Chelsea's kids have done well but there are times when they will need to be taken out of the team. Buy the right three players and I think they're guaranteed to make the Champions League.
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Q: flexDirection: "row" not working react-native I am developing a react-native application. One of the app screens contains a  list of albums. I have divided each album container into components which are Card and CardSection.
A Card can contain many CardSections. The CardSection will contain an image and 2 Text titles. The problem I am facing is with the positioning of the content in the CardSection as flexDirection:'row' is not working.
Here is the CardSection.js
import React from 'react';
import {View, Text, Image} from 'react-native';

import Card from './Card';
import CardSection from "./CardSection";
const AlbumDetail = ({album}) => {

// destructing the props
const {title, artist, thumbnail_image} = album;
return (
    <Card>
        <CardSection>

            <View style={styles.thumbnailContainerStyle}>
                <Image style={styles.thumbnailStyle} source={{uri: thumbnail_image}} />
            </View>

            <View style={styles.headerContentStyle} >
                <Text style={styles.headerTextStyle}>{title}</Text>
                <Text>{artist}</Text>
            </View>

        </CardSection>
    </Card>
);
};

const styles = {
  headerContentStyle: {
     flexDirection: 'column',
     justifyContent: 'space-around'
},
headerTextStyle:{
    fontSize:18
},
thumbnailStyle: {
    height: 50,
    width: 50
},
thumbnailContainerStyle: {
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    margin: 10,
    marginRight: 10
}
};

export default AlbumDetail;

Here is the CardSection.js
import React from 'react';

import {View} from 'react-native';

const CardSection = (props) => {
return (
    <View styles={styles.containerStyle}>
        {props.children}
    </View>
);

};

const styles = {
 containerStyle: {
    borderBottomWidth: 1,
    padding: 5,
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    justifyContent: 'flex-start',
    flexDirection: "row",
    borderColor: '#ddd',
    position: 'relative'
}
};
export default CardSection;

The resultant should that the Image placed towards the left and on the right side of the image there will be 2 Text titles and their flexDirection will be column

A: <View styles={styles.containerStyle}> you have typo, it is styles, the prop should be style.

A: use this
headerContentStyle: {
     flexDirection: 'row',
     justifyContent: 'space-around'
}

instead of
headerContentStyle: {
     flexDirection: 'column',
     justifyContent: 'space-around'
}

A: You have to use card containerStyle props in CardSection.js file.
there you should have to use flexDirection :'row' .
Hope it will work.

A: I had a similar problem where flexDirection: 'row' was not working in one of my components that I was importing in App.js.
What was causing this was the alignItems: 'center' in the stylesheet for the main container in my App.js file.
I hope this helps someone.

A: You can check this.
import {  TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native'

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