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Providing children (and ourselves) with tools to manage anxiety is important. Our executive director Jennifer Fischer shares the books and tools that work for her family at Multicultural Kid Blogs.
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Every time you vent about parenting someone bursts in like the Kool-Aid man with "Have you tried..."
No.
Just stop.
So if you are on the struggle bus, let me bust in:
NO amount of gentle parenting, advice, regulation, meditation mindfulness, psychology, or any kind of mojo will make you a "good enough" parent to prevent your toddler completely losing the entirety of their shit about getting the wrong color cup.
Not your fault. There. Not. Your. Fault.
Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities:
You can find out more at https://dads.cool/about and https://cooler.mom/about or contact the admins @alex & @sydney
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MediaSmarts has been developing digital media literacy programs and resources for Canadian homes, schools and communities since 1996. Our work falls into three main areas: education, public awareness, and research and policy.
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I wrote a poem, dedicated to all those "men" "too manly" to spend time with their #daughters.
"Sounds a bit gay, to be honest!"
https://yorkshiregeek.co.uk/posts/sounds-a-bit-gay-tbh/
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children
He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.
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Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment or misconduct — to keep their credentials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-fired-teacher-sexual-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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It’s reassuring to find other parents who are dealing with a similar situation as @Snow and I are with their autistic son.
Our son is 16 years old and has caused significant damage to our home, specifically the drywall, interior doors, kitchen appliances & a window.
The good news is that I’ve gotten pretty good at repairing drywall lol
This is the result of actual autism, not just people on the internet claiming to be autistic.
NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed.
“The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Medicine #Vaccines #Parenting
A bit of a rant: the US culture wars have made it difficult to find reasonable, helpful parenting advice online.
#US #USPol #CultureWar #parenting
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NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting, two lawmakers have called on the CDC to address a “preventable public health crisis” of parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns — which has led to babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-cdc-rfk-jr-lawmakers-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Outstanding video. 
It's as though the manual for parenting was revealed in a 30 min video. This will no doubt smart when certain unmet areas are mentioned, but still worth it...
"These 12 Needs Are Non-Negotiable for a Healthy & Whole Life":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eHpkNsAhU
@autistics
#selfCare #psychology #parenting
A woman who sexually abused a minor. Boxer Mike Tyson, who served time for rape. Both of these people successfully launched private schools that collected public money.
As the voucher system grows more popular, few states have guardrails in place.
https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-growth-florida-arizona-west-virginia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #School #Parenting #Teaching #Children #Florida #Arizona
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Book Recommendation For Everyone:
Invisible Women, Data Bias in a World Designed For Men
by Caroline Criso Perez
paraphrasing:
...so much data fails to take into account gender...and women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, money, and often wtth their lives"
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#HumanRights #AI #Computing
#Coding #Mastodon #Fediverse
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#Finance #Software #Parenting
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Your measure of success as a parent isn't how much your kid makes, or their social status, or what degree they earned. It's not even watching them flourish in the life they chose.
It's watching them fight the laughter when they're trying to be mad at you for being annoying
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So apparently Fred Rogers Productions just started a new YouTube channel where they'll be uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
https://youtube.com/@misterrogersneighborhood?si=o9FcfHuBHytiwKZt
Rip and tear until about 8:00 PM, then it’s bed time kiddo you have school in the morning