“ We risk miseducating all of our [children] if we allow them to use their own cultural attitudes and values as the sole measuring stick for ‘normal human nature’” (Taylor, 2000) When children are exposed to books that offer various viewpoints and values, they increase your child’s ability to analyze, evaluate, and make judgments about …
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As a society we think topics like discrimination, inequity, and social justice should be reserved for tweens and teens. We’ve somehow decided that little kids can’t understand these difficult, complex topics, or we want to delay exposing them to injustices as long as possible. Many kids don’t have that luxury of being shielded or protected …
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OCD & the Brain Bully fight dirty! Some days are just plain hard. Really hard. Today was one of those days for me (and my son). It was a day that I just sat in my closet and cried. It wasn’t a loud, kicking & screaming kind of cry (although there are days/times for those). …
My oldest son was required to write an essay for school shortly after he was given the OCD diagnosis. He decided to focus his essay on his journey with OCD. With his permission, I would like to share his essay, which received a writing award at school. Brace yourself…it is, by blog posts standards, quite long. But …
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.106″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.106″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.106″ /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section] Happy World Poetry Day! In honor of World Poetry Day, I wanted to post a poem written by a 12-year-old black male a few years back. This poem was written when he was given the prompt “Youth Violence” in sixth grade language arts classroom. He had anxiety over the …
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Today is National Pink Shirt Anti-Bullying Awareness Day. I hope you are wearing your Pink. I know some of you are wondering how I am making the connections between Genocides and School Bullying. I know this may sound dramatic and even too scary to discuss, especially …
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.86″] It is the tragedy of the Douglas High School shootings that I post this blog entry. This incident, because it was so close to my home, has left my children trying to make sense of it all (as many of us adults are doing the same). …