#African American parenting

[successfulblackparenting]

5 Ways to Get Your Kids Interested in Cooking

5 Ways to Get Your Kids Interested in Cooking

It is essential to get your kids interested in cooking to encourage them to actually like cooking. After all, they will not magically develop a passion for food unless you plant the seeds early on. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways in which you can spark your kid’s interest in culinary arts and ensure that they have a lifelong love of eating good food. Here are five tips on how you can get…

[milkcos]

lemonade mouth/band au! more notes under the cut

lemonade as in like the disney movie! so there are a couple like clear comparisons but mostly it's the bad kids get stuck in detention together except they form a band instead of an adventuring party

fabian > no equivalent (olivia vibes)

the most popular kid at school who is both in dance and on the football team. somehow gets decent grades as well. no close friends, but a lot of people who know him and want to get on his good side. kind of depressed, and his dad's currently in prison. he started playing the guitar as a way to show off and then genuinely started enjoying it

adaine > mo

she's a concert violist (playing the viola) always an accompaniment for her sister and is striking it out on her own for the first time. her family is very upset about this, and consistently puts her down so she'll go along with they want her to do. also she recently transitioned to going to public school for the first time, making her the new girl.

kristen > no equivalent

she's recently ex mormon, got out of her parents house (currently living in her car) and without all of her former friends stuck in a student president position that she got when she was still with the religion. questioning her sexuality after one too many encounters with the soccer team captain, tracker. used to be on the church choir, was a bit too enthusiastic about it.

gorgug > no equivalent (charlie vibes)

he's got like one or two kinda friends (mainly fig). extremely busy with his classes and with marching band and self isolating as a result. he's stressed out about living up to his parent's name (they run a very successful electric engineering company). signed up to work as a sound tech for the theatre department bc one of the female stage managers is very cute (zelda) and then discovered that he rlly like it.

riz > no equivalent

no friends! (other than maybe the AV club + penny) too used to burying himself in work at both his part time gig and with his insane amount of extracurriculars. started playing the piano bc he heard it helps with memory retention and overall cognitive ability.

fig > stella/wen

she's the cool loner skater kid who is the floater friend mostly? she's got a maybe relationship with ayda, who she loves to annoy at the school library. very interested in making her own music not very interested in school. freaking out over her parents getting remarried. her mom enrolled her in music lessons when she was younger, and it's one of the only things she can talk about with her mom these days.

[everlastingrandom]

Food genetics are so weird. I may be weak to tannins, but at least I can enjoy cilantro. Raw fruit makes my mouth itch and I’m learning that I’m more likely to be sensitive to salt (!?) My relationship with dairy grows more tenuous by the day

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Florida has blocked the College Board from testing a pilot Advanced Placement African American Studies (APAAS) curriculum in the state under Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE” Act. According to a letter obtained by National Review, Florida’s Department of Education’s Office of Articulation said the curriculum “is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

The pilot course, which has been tested at 60 schools across the United States, aims to expand the advanced coursework offered by the College Board into the study of the African diaspora in the U.S. The course has run afoul of DeSantis’ widespread ban on teaching “critical race theory” (CRT) in K-12 classrooms. CRT is an analytical framework that seeks to dissect the manner in which racism has shaped American legal theory and institutions. The concept has been co-opted in recent years by right-wing reactionaries to fearmonger about any and all discussions of race and discrimination.

The “Stop Woke” act, signed into law by DeSantis in 2022, essentially prohibits instruction on race relations or diversity that imply a person’s “status as either privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by his or her race, color, national origin, or sex.” The bill also bans both schools and workplaces from “subjecting any student or employee to training or instruction that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individuals to believe specified concepts constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin.”

In November, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker issued a temporary injunction on a portion of the law that attempted to place similar restrictions on higher education. Despite several challenges to the law on grounds of First Amendment rights, Florida has continued to lead the charge against comprehensive education on the racial history of the U.S. Several other states have passed similar legislation, including Texas, Idaho, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Oklahoma.

DeSantis has centered his administration around governance through culture war grievances. The governor passed a similar law last year, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that granted the state broad powers to implement prohibitions on instruction on issues of gender and sexuality in Florida schools. Under the guise of his anti-CRT crusade, the Governor is reshaping Florida education in the image of the far right, recently announcing a plan to forcibly overhaul the New College of Florida, and transform it into a conservative institution. With increasing pressure on teachers and professors to avoid topics like race and gender lest they face the wrath of the state government, that transformation is effectively taking place though government-enforced censorship.

[happi-speech]

The concept if cursing is quite strange to me the more and more I think about it.

Americans just decided there are words that are just forbidden to say bc theyre 'cursed' or too vulgar to utter. But they exist to say? Yet are heavily censored from being heard despite their frequency in informal speech.

Some words arbitrarly get less censorship, like 'ass' and even 'shit' bc theyre seen as vulgar but not too 'cursed', while words like 'fuck' and even vulgar words for genitals and phrases mentioning god like 'goddamit' are censored almost always on public broadcasting stations and media.

Children saying 'curse words' is seen as extremely offensive and is even a right of passage when they reach an arbitrary age threshold when its acceptable or at least expected that they learn to 'curse'. I remember how it felt to utter 'curse words' as a child and how taboo it felt. Now i just dont fucking care, but try to have some decorum when contexts call for more formal speech, like around elders or parents.

American southern English has a thing where certain words, usually interjections and intensifiers, are so charged w vulgarity and moral depravity (i guess bc theyre vain and mortal?) that theyre forbidden to be heard on radio and taught not to say in childhood. This was totally normal to me until I tried to find studies of where 'cursing' as a concept came from thru the etymology of 'curse words'. Theres not much out there.

Does your language or dialect have a concept of 'cursing'?

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Negro Found Guilty At Lockport Court," Niagara Falls Review. June 23, 1933. Page 7. --- LOCKPORT, N.Y., June 23 - A county jury before Judge William A. Gold yesterday afternoon found Jefferson Hill, 45 years old Negro, Niagara Falls, guilty on a charge of assault, second degree.

Hill was charged with attacking Pearl Nelson, Niagara Falls, with an iron pipe on March 25th. He said he was defending himself from the attack of another man and struck the Nelson woman by accident.

Frank McIntyre, 40 years old, of this city, accused of a statutory charge, and Roland Berne, 27. Town of Lewiston, charged with abandonment, entered pleas of guilty when arraigned this morning

A jury last night found John Skwasrzyski, 36, Niagara Falls, not guilty of abandoning two children.

[detective-piplup]

🇿🇦?

THE ONLY OTHER CORRECT ANSWER anon you’re now my favourite

[allthislove]

Every so often on the internet, somebody tells me I'm "not Black", either because they saw me and I'm lighter skinned or because of some random, fucked up belief they have about what constitutes a Black person, and I really need y'all to get a grip. Someone can live their entire life as a Black person, with Black parents and grandparents and siblings and cousins and aunties and uncles, then get on the bird app in 2023 and have weirdos tell them they're not Black, or y'all favorite new term "white passing" just because they're lighter than I guess Kelly Rowland and like...

We understand that having lighter skin is a privilege and everything, but it isn't being white. I'm nowhere near whiteness, and people irl remind me every day. I'm not even directly mixed with anything (I'm mixed the same way most African Americans are mixed, and my dark skinned brother and sister have the exact same admixture. DNA is amazing and capable of anything.)

I swear to God, y'all have got to stop telling people they're mixed, white, white passing, or whatever else just because someone isn't dark skinned online. We have lived entire lives before you saw us, and we have an entire family that you have never seen. You cannot tell us who we are.

[jbfly46]

This is why a bunch of white kids grow up jealous of black kids then turn into angry racist incels. White parents give near zero support to their children.

“I started managing Burna Boy 13 years ago. I read his first record deal in 2010 and asked him to sign it. But back then the music couldn’t pay the bills so I was always working behind the scenes while doing my job. I had kids who needed food so you see I couldn’t just focus on the music. I told Burna Boy I believe in him and I’ll stand by him. Aside from being his manager, I had to constantly motivate him and tell him not to settle for less. Look at us today, just one-night show can feed us for a year” - Burna Boy’s mum.

[successfulblackparenting]

New Studies Reveal: All Parents Face Toxic Stress, Racism Exacerbates the Burden for Black Parents

Recent studies highlighted by the U.S. Surgeon General and the American Psychological Association (APA) show that while parental stress is a widespread issue, “41 percent of parents say that most days they are so stressed they cannot function and 48 percent say that most days their stress is completely overwhelming compared to other adults.” The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental…

[b-m-s-c]

[urbanmommyinc]

Navigating Difficult Conversations: Talking to Your Children about the War in Israel

Photo courtesy: Associated Press Discussing war with children is never an easy task, especially when it hits close to home. The ongoing conflict in Israel can be particularly challenging to address, as images and news on social media can easily reach young eyes and minds. However, it is crucial to have open and honest conversations with our children, providing them with reassurance and…

[pumpacti0n]

Dr. Joy DeGruy - Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD?

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) said in an interview Sunday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) drumbeat of policies targeting Black, transgender and LGBTQ people are “fascism.”

During an appearance on “CNN Newsroom,” host Jim Acosta asked Frost, the first Generation Z lawmaker to serve in Congress, about how Democrats should take on DeSantis.

“We take that on by number one being bold in our messaging and calling it out for what it is,” Frost told Acosta, saying that DeSantis was not attempting to improve education with his policies, but was “acting on scapegoating vulnerable communities due to his failures.”

“This is what we’re up against in Florida right now and it’s hard to keep track of because it seems like there’s a new victim, there’s a new bill every day,” he added.

“But we have to call it for what it is: He is abusing his power and using the state to target political opponents and political enemies. And there’s a word for that, and it’s fascism, and we have to be honest about it.”

According to The Washington Post, Republican lawmakers in Florida have proposed a new batch of legislation that includes proposals to require teachers to use pronouns matching children’s sex as assigned at birth, and establish a universal school voucher program.

DeSantis also signed the Parental Rights in Education bill, also referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, into law last year, which prohibits state educators from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and limits such instruction in other age groups.

And the Governor sparked criticism earlier this year after he barred the teaching of an Advanced Placement African American studies course in the state school curriculum.

Frost’s remarks come as DeSantis is widely seen as a leading contender for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination, though he had indicated an official announcement will not come until after the state’s legislative session.

“It’s just a problem for Florida now, sure. But in a few years, it can be a problem for the nation,” Frost said of DeSantis’s political tactics.

“We need everybody to pay attention and talk about how he’s targeting trans folks, targeting not just Black history, but Black people in general, which is American history, and targeting marginalized communities across this entire state,” Frost added.

“And here’s the sad, sad part, Jim. He’s doing it because it’s polling high for him in the Republican Party. And I think that says a lot about the state of that party right now.”

The Hill has reached out to DeSantis’s office for comment.

[wood-addict]

If you listen to the words in this song says it all she crazy in love with someone not featuring her! This is the bitch Elisabeth Troy when I refused her advances on holiday in Thailand where she followed me! Dumped her at the banjan tree resort in Phuket so she could lounge by the pool drink herself silly do lots of nose powder Ghana bitch wanted to hang out with the fashion and celebrities music and Primrose Hill set there. Now that to me was work I wanted to explore the country and culture. Anyway she met Kate moss (nose powder while pregnant?) and told her I was a paedophile and later when I lived in nyc added Rapist to that accusation. I am a gay man who likes other men not boys definitely not girls! What is it with black chics you don’t fuck them on command and they tell everyone your a peadophile it’s happened to me 3 times! It’s one of the reasons I don’t do black girls hair anymore! Don’t miss all the weavery and wiggetry at all. Sad thing is it gave the fashion set dream team something to talk about and spread like wildfire thanks to Kate, Naomi,Ronnie Newhouse, Edward Enningful and Pat McGrath all these bitches I used to work with they knew me and they destroyed my reputation in Uk and Europe and America it’s why I stopped hairstyling all together be careful if your a stylist for any of these and 3 British Black chicks Elisabeth Troy(Ghanaian) Naomi Campbell (jamaican yigga) and Ineka Burke (Dominican green eye redskin bitch). GOOD LUCK IF YOU WORK OR CHECK FOR THESE BITCHES! They want Chinese in them I Wasian because they want pykny with good hair some bitches please??? Crazy Love alright??? #fashion #fashionblogger #hair #hairstylist #music #musicbusiness #musicblog #fashioneditor #magazine #fashionshow #fashionshoot #celebrity #celebrityhairstylist #fashion #music #blackbritish #african #africanamerican #blasian #wasian #asianamerican #blackgirlmagic #ghanian #ghanians #lgbtq #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtqia #gayparents #lesbianmoms #lesbians @gay_parents_of_the_world @gay.parents.connect @gayparentmagazine prepare your possibly gay children for straight people! 2nd generation here!@gay_times_group

[the-arcade-doctor]

*puts pants back on in shame and fucking dies*_

[ x-term, obliterate this nigga. ]