Michelle Mauricci

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.

“But not the real kind of autism.” “Just a touch” = he talks. A kid can speak in full sentences and still not know how to make a friend, sit through a board game, or catch the joke everyone else got. That’s not lesser.That’s a kid drowning quietly while everyone says he’s fine

Your kid will eventually say something biased out loud. All kids do. The next ten seconds decide whether you stay their trusted source or the playground takes the job. Flat face. Curious question. Correct the idea, not the kid. That’s the intervention. 🦁

My kid was crying & another. Black kid on the playground got to him first. That’s not a race story. That’s a belonging story. Kids sort by sameness — skin, gender, language, who likes dinosaurs—because belonging is the actual need.Steer where it points. Don’t shame the instinct.

Nolan Wells’ mother said this is not how she wanted the world to meet her son. Every POC parent I know is having heavier conversations with their kids this week belonging, being the only one, what to do when the room goes quiet. If you’re one of them having hard talks ❤️

He can ❤️ his book AND his Rap Snacks. Both. Always both. The kids who handle bullying best not the toughest they’re the most rooted. Back-to-school prep is identity not armor-plating. When a kid’s sense of self isn’t up for debate, someone else’s opinion lands diff.🦁@SnoopDogg