I kind of read the situation the opposite way. As a teacher I’d appreciate knowing if a kid was being teased (little ones are very good at doing this out of earshot of adults). I didn’t find the bathroom incident that big a deal though.

Yeah- all of these except the bathroom intrusion were a “deal with your kid by talking about it” thing, NOT a “contact other adults and complain” thing.

Concurred in entirety. The request for censorship troubled me, and the one book is such a tiny drop in the bucket I don’t think it would help anyway. But talking with the child about the messaging was a great way to handle it! She can apply that lesson to everything.

As a multi culural guy my white mom never fought my battles for me, instead she did everything she could to make me try to understand the idiot people saying that crap, not their ideas, but why they had them. She only stepped into the major stuff, like when my school turned a blind eye to how badly I was getting…

And as a mixed raced child who had a white mother who took every single racial and sexist battle - and won them, I’ll say: the exhaustion is worth it.

This is something I grapple with all the time. I want it be known I’m not okay with this shit but I don’t want my feelings to end up alienating my daughters because their friend’s parents don’t want to deal with me. My girls are almost four and two so I know it’s coming. The only thing I can think of to solve it is to…

When my son was in kindergarten, I consistently spoke up as the parent of a kid with autism, bringing those issues into conversations, and I worried that it would mark me as the Weird Mom, but after a couple of years I saw attitudes changing among the parents.

As a parent of a small daughter all I can say is your right but you are going to exhaust yourself. My daughter is also multi cultural, and if I had to sit her down and fight every micro bs moment we wouldn’t have time to have fun with life. The best I can teach her is that it is up to her to define her own existance,…

He knows the game. And he knows how to WIN IT. Like I’ve said… he doesn’t bring a knife to a gun fight!

John changed his Twitter bio: “I wanna be associated with interesting quotes”

Trump is street as in lane, or court or “Warning, sewer drain, do not enter.”

YES! There are many things I understand about why Trump is winning, but I seriously don’t understand how someone who literally crumbles in the face of the most minor of criticisms has managed to go this far in the Presidential race. This to me is more scary than anything else about his candidacy (the…

Well I can’t speak to his cutlery-carrying, but I DO know when he shows up to a battle of wits, he does go in *completely* unarmed.

Whenever I read “Stacey Dash,” I just see her dashing desperately away from integrity. Why is she so awful?

This Chris Rock skit is running reaaaaally long.

I don’t condone the violence that has happened so far.

The days of laughing at this twisted racist need to be over. He is becoming a serious threat to any sort of democratic normalcy. Racism seems to be spiking, at least more people seem willing to show their biases and hatred of late. I am kind of an “old” and studied Nazi and pre-Nazi Germany for several years...not so…

He’s what my dear departed granny would have called common.

Somebody hire Stacey a proofreader.

Except when he hears loud noises behind him and shits himself.