What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Her adoptive parents never filed the paperwork to make her a US citizen. So Kim Craig fell through the cracks. And now she finds herself stuck in Korea after a visit, unable to get back to the US.
WTF?! Citizenship needs to be retroactively given to all adoptees of American citizens. Yesterday.
Donald Trump has promised huge tax cuts for everyone, but three major changes he’s proposing would mean higher taxes for single parents.
Donald Trump’s Tax Plan Would Hit Single Parents Hard
hmm
An 11-year-old boy accused of stabbing Kyler Nipper with a pencil in their middle school hallway has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault, the Colorado Springs Police Department said Tuesday.
Seriously? With a pencil?
This is an absolute crime against some of of our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This needs to be fixed right the fuck now, for ever child who was ever adopted into the United States. Period.
Things had been getting worse for women in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, [emphasis: mine] the rise of sectarian strife and fundamentalist Islam. But in the summer of 2014 came the biggest blow when ISIS enforced its extreme ideology in northern Iraq.
…Tales of rape and other horrific abuses of women had spread across Nineveh; of the capture and enslavement of non-Muslim women from Yazidi and Christian communities, acts that ISIS claims are justified in the Quran.
…The prospect of a military victory over ISIS in Mosul offers glimmers of hope for a better future, but the women are unsure if life can ever be the same again.
Fleeing ISIS’ assault on girls and women – CNN.com
Arrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhh!
This Girl Did This After The Boy At School Twanged Her Bra. What Followed Is Gold.Reshareable
Unsubstantiated and entirely too well scripted.
Still, a classic!
Children have picked up on all the racist rhetoric.
“All the black and brown people have to leave”: Trump’s scary impact on how kids think – Vox
Sigh…
“It’s like any job,” lawmaker Unnur Bra Konradsdottir said of motherhood.
hmmmm
Randomly found this little gem.
Spot-the-fuck-on!!!
Despite an array of net-price tools, comparing financial-aid packages is still an incredibly dense and circular process.
Comparing College Costs Requires Time-Consuming Effort – The Atlantic
Sigh…. What an off-putting and prohibitory clusterf*ck.
Kristen O’Meara chose not to vaccinate her young daughters because she was a big believer in anti-vaccination research. That changed when all three were stricken with a case of rotavirus, which causes acute stomach distress. A teacher living outside Chicago, she added that she had “scoured everything” about why vaccines might be harmful and had become “pretty convinced.” She chose not to vaccinate based on the results of her research but had read only material that cast doubt.
Anti-Vaxxer Mom Changes Mind After Her Three Kids Fall Ill – Yahoo
Mmmhmmm
A juvenile detention center staffer watched and failed to provide any assistance as Gynnya McMillen gasped amid a fatal seizure earlier this year, according to a federal lawsuit.
Oy…
For tweens, eye-rolling and backtalk really means, ‘Thank you for the helpful advice. I shall endeavor to act accordingly.’
Want to Raise Successful Daughters? Science Says Nag the Heck Out of Them | Inc.com
hmmmm
Yes, Mia Farrow kind of made an a circus out of international adoption. (Grrrrrrrrrrrr!) But can we just get one point right here? These are Mia’s “adopted children.” They are her “children.” Period. Adoption is the process through which these people became her children, it doesn’t make them any less her children. Can we, as a society, stop saying “adopted children” and start saying the more accurate (and not as fucking racist and ignorant) “children?”
Pretty please?
She explained that, overall, this generation seems to lack the executive function necessary to make it on their own. Many students don’t make eye contact, don’t interact with teachers, and when they’re lost or needed help, they text their mom before advocating for themselves. Julie believes that this is directly correlated with another new development: The behavior of parents. Never in Stanford’s history have so many freshman parents called in to discuss things like: their student’s roommate situations, teacher complications, opportunities for their student to perform research at the college, and even to discuss their child’s grades. Now remember, this isn’t 3rd grade, or 8th grade, or even senior year of high school that she’s talking about. This is COLLEGE and it’s STANFORD UNIVERSITY for crying out loud. Could there possibly be a correlation between these over-parenters and their kids who seem to be floundering in the basic skills of life? Julie is certain of it.
Stanford Dean Says Parents are Ruining Their kids By…
hmmm
Sky Brown from Miyazaki, Japan is the new, pint-sized skate prodigy.
This 8-Year-Old is the Youngest Girl to Skate in the Vans US Open Pro Series BE STREET
Nice
A school cafeteria worker has quit over what she considers a “lunch shaming” policy in a Pennsylvania school district.
Penn. Public School Cafeteria Worker Quits in ‘Lunch Shaming’ « CBS Baltimore
Absolutely horrid
Researchers Pam Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer found that students remember more via taking notes longhand rather than on a laptop. It has to do with what happens when you’re forced to slow down.
Taking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say : NPR
Um, no shit Sherlock?
Over the last forty years, as incarceration has surged across the nation, so has the number of children with a family member in prison.
As New Orleans Incarcerates More People, More Children Have A Parent Behind Bars | WWNO
sigh…
The emotional video, filmed in Chicago, shows Lauren surprising Joe on the day of her high school graduation party by giving him a box of official adoption papers.
Awww…
If this doesn’t move you, you have a heart of stone.
It’s so hard to meet many school dress codes’ ridiculous standards that girls might as well go naked. Oh wait, that would definitely be a violation!
The 11 Most Infuriatingly Sexist Dress Codes That Exist
Sigh…
In a StoryCorps animation, Patrick Haggerty remembers the remarkable advice he got from his dairy farmer dad.
This is amazing.
Here’s my once upon a time: I’m a white woman, born and raised by a white family, who grew up to marry a white man. When my husband and I married, we decided we wanted to achieve aa few life goals before having kids. And so, together we designed our future: I graduated college and then went on to grad school, while my husband began climbing the corporate ladder in the financial industry. Then the magical plan came to a halt. I got sick — really, really sick — and ended up at death’s door. Just in the nick of time, I was diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disease, and I knew within days of my diagnosis that we would adopt.
thank you for sharing your experiences
I’m a mom of three children, all of whom were adopted at birth. My kids are black, and my husband and I are white. When we visit the park, eat at a restaurant, meander around the mall, or stand in a checkout line, we can reliably predict the questions and comments that will come our way.
We are a multi-racial adoptive family, and we realize that our uncommon path to parenthood evokes curiosity. However, there are days we can’t even buy toilet paper or order a sandwich without hearing, “Excuse me … ” followed by a request for personal information or an assumption about adoption or race.
Please Don’t Ask Me, “Why Didn’t You Adopt a White Baby?”
Amen, sister. Amen to every word of this.
UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health measured the IQs of 7-year-olds whose mothers in the agricultural Salinas Valley in California.
…For every 522 pounds of chemical pesticides applied less than 0.6 miles from where the pregnant mother lived, the child’s IQ declined by 2 points, and the child’s verbal reasoning score declined by 3 points.
…A study published in the journal Pediatrics in 2011 found a link between pesticides in food and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Researchers took urine samples 1,140 children and evaluated them for the symptoms of ADHD.
They found that the children who met the criteria for ADHD had significantly higher levels of a breakdown product of organophosphate pesticides in their urine.
New study suggests pesticides could lower IQ
hmmm
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