Development Specialist & Parenting Consultant, Pediatric clinician, SEL book author, adjunct professor, scientistAfro-Latina who ❤️ fluffy cats & raccoons🙌🏾🐾
Reno, NV
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Conform, and maybe he lives. Don't, and maybe he doesn't.
My son only plays with toy guns in our fenced backyard. I know that's conforming. I also know I'm terrified.
Si se conforma, quizá vive. Si no, quizá no.
Sé que eso es conformarse. También sé que tengo terror.
Women are not believed because they are women. False reports are rare, roughly 2 to 10 percent. Doubt is still the default.
Our boys are learning about women from someone. Make sure it's us.
A las mujeres no les creen por ser mujeres..
Boys will be boys.Ask who that sentence is actually for.
Some kids get grace for everything. Some get grace for nothing. Neither one is how you raise a human being.
Los niños son así.Pregunta para quién es esa frase en realidad.
Algunos reciben gracia por todo. Otros por nada
Ice cream and shark attacks rise together. Ice cream isn't the cause. Heat is. Ask what else drives both.
El helado y los ataques de tiburón suben juntos. El helado no es la causa. El calor sí. Pregunta qué más impulsa a ambos.
2020 hospital birth form: African American or Caucasian. I'm Afro-Latina. What box do I check?
Formulario del hospital en 2020: afroamericano o caucásico. Soy afrolatina. ¿Qué casilla marco?
The one-drop rule was a law, not a family decision. The law ended. The boundary kept doing damage.
La regla de una gota fue una ley, no una decisión familiar. La ley terminó. La frontera siguió haciendo daño.
I asked about 100college students if they’d heard of the one-drop rule.2 had. Louisiana repealed its version in 1983.The law ended. The rule didn’t.
Les pregunté a unos 100universitarios si conocían la regla de una gota. LI derogó su versión en 1983. La ley terminó. La regla no
"Special needs" is not a risk label. Disabled kids have about 3.7x odds of experiencing violence, and the Secret Service found no profile of school attackers.
"Necesidades especiales" no es una etiqueta de riesgo. Los niños con discapacidad tienen cerca de 3.7 veces mas.
Three children and a teacher died in Bend, Oregon. This should never happen. Not with children. Period. It keeps happening, =policy problem.
Tres niños y una maestra murieron en Bend, Oregón. Esto nunca debería pasar. No con niños. Punto. Sigue pasando, y eso no debe ser. Punto
It's not just a tragedy. It's not a news cycle. For Black families it's every single day.
Nolan Wells is the name people know right now. It shouldn't take outrage, publicity, or big names for anyone to care that a kid died. It shouldn't matter his color or whether he was good.
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Clinicians keep treating a protective practice like a risk.
Preparing a kid for bias, alone: more anxiety. Paired with cultural identity: protective.
A prepared child is not a frightened child.
Preparar para el prejuicio, sola: más ansiedad.Con identidad cultural: protectora.
Back to school night: you get ~90 seconds.
Don’t open with the problem. “Two things that help him: ___ and ___.”
Then ask: if something comes up, will you tell me early or wait for conferences?
Send one email that night. Now it’s dated.
No hace falta un diagnóstico.🦁
A teacher can’t do much with a diagnosis. She can do a lot with a goal.
“He’s shy” becomes “I want him to have one kid he can sit with at lunch.”
Observable. Has a next step. She can start Monday.
Pick two. Not seven.
Di la habilidad, no la etiqueta.
My kid knows his multiplication tables and can still completely lose it if you correct him. Depends on the day.
Those are 2 different skills and teachers keep grading the 2nd one as a character flaw because they can see the first one working.
Give them the rest of the dets. 🦁