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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.

Parenting

I’m Grateful For A Letter From My Dad

It’s has become the most valuable thing I possess.

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.

BlackLivesMatter

Looking Forward In 2020

New topics, new focuses, same passion.

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…