#Parent

Since I'm going to be a dad soon (yay!) I wrote down my thoughts related to parenting. I'd appreciate any feedback!https://economicsdetective.com/2021/01/thoughts-on-parenting-before-becoming-a-parent/ I'll summarize the main po
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As a middle class suburban parent, let me tell you what's going on here. There are lots of reports of all of us organizing our own backyard schools with private
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Students may "fall behind" just as all of society has "fallen behind" because plagues have impacts ffs. You know what really sets students back? A severe and debilitating illness. You
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A day in the life of a #childcare director: help staff member w/ unemployment claim, listen to extremely frustrated parent who is afraid they will lose their job because they
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There’s one piece of therapy that I learned in school, but have never once seen in practice. And none of my peers have seen it either.When I started, I was
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I have seen so many parents do some amazing things in support of home learning. The most amazing of all? Knowing what they didn't know. Reaching out to others for
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Hey so YA writers can we talk? Because there's something I've noticed in a lot of YA contemporary fiction that actually bothers me a bit!! Especially because like, I have
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Zuko's speech to his dad hits me right in the feels:https://youtu.be/wUIxF-b34hg  It's rare to see an abusive parent-child relationship portrayed so well in pop culture. Tangled did a terrible job
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This is my thread on the analogy I made to parents in our zoom forums this week regarding how much learning is enough. I don’t know how long it’s going
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question for other people who got good grades, no drug history, & no criminal record but constantly felt they were doing something wrong under strict parents: how old were you
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Dealing with deadbeat parents, you're often torn between the principle of it & pragmatism: he shouldn't be allowed to shirk responsibility vs I'll take what I can get vs life
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Short thread;1) My parents separated when I was 11. Although I was a bright kid & at a Grammar I never made the best of my educational opportunities. My parents
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Yesterday I was honoured to appear on behalf of the Ontario Association of Child Protection Lawyers to argue an appeal of a judge's decision that gave the Children's Aid Society
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If you need a case for reparations for the children of Jim Crow, this article is it. Gates, Zuckerberg, Dell, Musk, etc. were all given money to start their businesses
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This is the humanities core of liberal arts education. Logic (embedded in philosophy), composition/writing (rhetorical structures & patterns), awareness of what happened before & how it worked out (history), how
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Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them,
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