#Families

Every year when I teach identity politics I ask the same question on the first day of class. Rather than the usual icebreakers, I ask: “How does your family /
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Been reflecting on this a lot over the weekend. By far not the first time it has happened and it's sad, but I don't think it will be the last.
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While @NYGovCuomo has publicly reassured Americans with his daily press conferences, behind closed doors he is orchestrating a budgetary response that will devastate New York. The Governor is using #COVID19
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“We’ll recover from this,” my brother assured me right before I hung up. Although his words were meant to calm me, they just broke me instead and I cried (loud
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Picture: Clearly not social distancing.Caption: Don't worry. We were social distancing :-) Well, I actually do make music. I write and perform songs for kids and families. Here's a song
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They are not too young to talk about race. Today I’m especially talking to my Asian American folx. How often do we train our children to believe they are “almost
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I hope you're all having a nice weekend or trying to at least with this pandemic. I wanted to do a small giveaway right now of 6 people, $50 each,
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//looking to make some money without asking for a handout. I Will make keepsakes, landscapes, animals, family photos, character edits. They are 2 to 3$ each. I take PayPal and
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But they’re low-income because of youhttps://twitter.com/forbes/status/1308443086075375624 Do we have to go through this again? Here's my @winnerstakeall crash course for you, @jeffbezos:1. Helping cause a problem isn't a qualific
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A lot of you didn't experience Christmas with divorced parents and it shows. I grew up in a small suburban town in CA but they drilled it into us that
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As a contemporary YA writer, I'm really struggling to work on my current project which is set a couple years from now. I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the
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Dr. Irvin D. Yalom, one of the founding pillars of existential therapy, noted that children who are abused/harmed or grow up in conflict-heavy homes find it harder to leave dysfunctional
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If nothing that’s happened few days hasn’t pushed you to pray, that’s okay. It’s hard enough to pray when everything is okay and even harder in these current circumstances. But
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ThreadI’m tired of reading that the GVT has followed the science.Despite my best efforts I could not find a substantial evidence that the GVT is following Evidence Based Medicine and
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To @NickJFuentes :Nick, I have being a follower of your channel for sometime. ( The Sargon-Destiny- CenkNephews debate ). And although I have to appreciate thate you are a smart
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We pay lip service to how much we want diversity in YA literature but when the growing pains of change kick in, we immediately revert to calling any progress towards
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