Parenthood
Teaching Hate is Child Abuse
How Children Learn to Hate Long before learning their ABCs, 1+1=2, and “Share your toys,” children learn how to be a human from the people around them. If we’re not careful — or worse, if it’s intentional — children also learn to hate. So let’s call teaching hate what it is: child abuse. A couple…
Read MoreGetting Started and Finding My Voice
This is my journey of finding my voice in a society that silences women, starting with my mother’s subtle but unsuccessful rebellion. How do you bring an idea to life if your passions are silenced? Dedicated to my mom. My mom was born in 1929, when women weren’t known for having their voices heard.…
Read MoreFamilies: The Training Ground for Small Humans
Note: The author is well aware of the range of dysfunction within families. This blog post intends to focus only on the phenomenon of families as “first teachers,” not on the content — supportive or destructive — that is being taught to children. The reader can extrapolate the profound impact of both helpful behaviors and…
Read MoreHow We Learn
I’ve been thinking lately about how humans learn. I’ve always been interested in learning and teaching. When I was a kid, I would play school for hours. I loved school and did really well, in large part becuase I was the perfect candidate for the U.S.-based educational system: I was white, I was a girl,…
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