Parenting When Hard Times Send Your Adult Children Back Home, Be Kind To Your Neighbors Adult children returning home because of hardships due to the pandemic can wreak havoc on innocent neighbors.
BlackLivesMatter How Black Parenting Is Sabotaged By White Supremacy White Supremacy minds all Black folks’ business, all the damned time.
Interracial Relationships My Biracial Granddaughter Was Taught To Be Racist I’m helping her unlearn her fear of Black people.
Code Switching Why I’m So Happy My Mother Taught Me Code Switching Code Switching is so much better than assimilation.
Covid 19 It’s Time To Check In: How Are You All Doing? I’m physically an emotionally exhausted. How are you coping with this new way of life?
Children Why Are Privileged Children Being Exposed To Violence and Alcohol in School? If exposure to violence is bad for child development, then why are public schools for the privileged exposing well off kids to violence.
Mental Health You Did the Crime, You Must Do The Time A story about trauma, aging, family, bad parenting, adult children, mental illness, and maintaining peace.
Education Things To Know About Getting Your Children Into and Out of College Planning is everything. An essay on preparing to get teens into and out of college.
Parenting Baby Birds Don’t Stay In The Nest Forever Neither should your children An essay about raising children to become self-sufficient.
Parenting From One Mother To Future Ones There are a few reasons young women shouldn’t become parents. An essay on the perils of parenting women never rarely tell you about.
Parenting Son, I’m So Sorry For Neglecting You Kids don’t come with instruction manuals An essay on parenting regrets.
Family How My Grandma’s Death Repaired My Relationship With My Father I learned a lot about my grandma after she died. An essay about what loved ones leave behind in death.
Parenting What Happened to the Village? It still takes a village to raise our children. This essay is about how isolation is leading to children growing up alone, lacking social intelligence, and unable to connect with other human beings. Parenting is a community effort.
Education How Barriers to Getting an Education Almost Ruined My Children’s Future The real dangers of data, stereotypes, and racism A single parent’s experience navigating the public education system.
Racism It’s Time to Question White Parenting and Nurturing Skills Is there a connection to White parenting and nurturing and White nationalism? This essay explores the connection between violent White men and White parenting, and questions why there are so few studies on the topic.
Parenting Why Your Parenting Style Matters The way we parent matters to the world. We don’t talk about it enough. An essay that goes along with my previous essay of inconsiderate parenting.
Parenting Let’s Talk About Inconsiderate Parenting Inconsiderate parents groom inconsiderate children. Let’s talk about it. An essay about how poor parenting impacts all of us.
BlackLivesMatter The World Is On Fire, And Most People Don’t Even Know It Sometimes Privilege Creates Ignorance
Motherhood She: The Woman I’m Forced To Call My Mother The Life Ruiner-in-Chief A story about a dysfunctional mother.
Family Beautiful Trees, Rotten Fruit Just because a family looks healthy and happy doesn’t mean it is. Our beauty is skin deep. Dysfunctional families are not always visible to the human eye, but the results of the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse show up other ways. Even in ones death.
Family My Grandma Is Dead, I feel No Sorrow, I Have No Shame She died Friday. But I’m not sad. I have no tears. And I surely won’t miss her. An essay about the life and death of my grandmother.
Parenting How Technology Robs Young People of Precious Memories and Family Time I rented a cottage from a young couple for my New Year’s Getaway this year. They live on west coast of Florida but come over to their…
Christmas Christmas: The Most Terrible Time of the Year When visiting your adult child for the holidays represents stress and anxiety. It’s the holiday season for most people the most wonderful time of the year they’ll say. And while I don’t celebrate holidays in general, this year this time of the year is a nice time to get away…