Proud Parent
Good grades are great, but let’s also brag about the other reasons we’re proud of our kids.
Parent, Don’t Ban
Teach kids to understand what’s good or bad so they can manage when they encounter it. You can’t prevent them from encountering it in today’s world. And all an Internet blocker teaches kids is how to learn to get around an Internet blocker.
You try tidying with three kids
Marie Kondo, the guru of tidy, has said that, note that she had three kids, she doesn’t tidy as much anymore. Big surprise.
Bad Parenting
So the veiled threats begin. Trump taking to his Truth Social platform with thinly disguised insinuations of what will happen if he’s prosecuted. Lindsay Graham was more direct, warning of riots in the streets.
I don’t know if there’s enough of a case to prosecute or not. But there’s clearly something to investigate. And we should. But the GOP doesn’t want us to.
It’s the GOP continuing its strategy of not holding Trump accountable for anything, saying that accountability will be worse than letting Trump do what he wants.
Any parent knows, that’s a terrible strategy.
School Year Fears
Schools are starting back up and kids are trying to figure out what supplies they need or don’t need. Unfortunately some fears are more overwhelming than others.
More children have died from COVID in the past 2 1/2 years than school shootings in the past 50 years.
But shootings bring a visceral reaction and will get a lot more funding and attention, just likely not in the right ways.
Both are complex, scary, low likelihood, and high consequence issues. No easy answers. But we shouldn’t let unfounded fears dominate our actions. We need data and science and research to show us how best to address these issues and make our kids feel safe and secure in school.
And remind ourselves and our kids that for both issues, the overwhelming percentages say they’ll be ok.
Drag Shows
As anti-LGBTQ sentiments continue to fester in parts of the country, there’s a new push in several states to criminalize things like taking kids to a drag show. So much for the party of limited government.
The ridiculous culture wars rage on.
Stay Home from School
I’m frankly amazed the kids haven’t played this card more.
