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    Alive, America, and Asian: did you know?
 Photographer Diana Kim, whose
 father abandoned her when she
 was 5, wanted to document the
 lives of the homeless. Searching
 for subjects on the streets, she
 came upon a thin and distant man
 in rags who looked somewhat familiar.
 It was her father. By fate or by chance,
 she'd found him after 25 years.
 PHOTO: DIANA KIM
 DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
did-you-know:


He had schizophrenia. He didnā€™t recognize her. She did everything she could to connect with him, but he refused treatment, medication, food, or new clothing.


Eventually, he said to her: ā€œDiana, I am so sorry for not being in your life. I am so happy that you have a family of your own now. Do better for themā€¦
ā€¦ Donā€™t worry about me or what everyone says about me. If you want to make me proud and happy, be there for your family the way your mom and I never were. Stop trying to save everyoneā€¦just worry about yourself and your family. And donā€™t forget why I named you Diana, you are the light within the darkness.ā€ So she refused to give up.
After suffering a heart attack, he agreed to get help and slowly took control of his own life.
One day he suddenly called her to invite her out for coffee. Later that afternoon, she wrote on her blog: ā€œI feel like I just met my father for the first time today.ā€
ā€œI struggled to reconcile my feelings toward my fatherā€™s absence in my life, while continuing to care deeply for him and other homeless individuals.ā€
ā€œOver time, I learned to navigate through my feelings of desperation and became more vocal in my community about my fatherā€™s condition and what itā€™s like to watch a loved one battle mental illness.ā€
He is now doing very well, and they are rebuilding their relationship from the ground up. ā€œSo long as we are alive in this world, every day is an opportunity to take hold of that ā€˜second chance.ā€™ There is no failure unless you give up, and he never gave up. And I havenā€™t given up on him.ā€
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                Alive, America, and Asian: did you know?
 Photographer Diana Kim, whose
 father abandoned her when she
 was 5, wanted to document the
 lives of the homeless. Searching
 for subjects on the streets, she
 came upon a thin and distant man
 in rags who looked somewhat familiar.
 It was her father. By fate or by chance,
 she'd found him after 25 years.
 PHOTO: DIANA KIM
 DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
did-you-know:


He had schizophrenia. He didnā€™t recognize her. She did everything she could to connect with him, but he refused treatment, medication, food, or new clothing.


Eventually, he said to her: ā€œDiana, I am so sorry for not being in your life. I am so happy that you have a family of your own now. Do better for themā€¦
ā€¦ Donā€™t worry about me or what everyone says about me. If you want to make me proud and happy, be there for your family the way your mom and I never were. Stop trying to save everyoneā€¦just worry about yourself and your family. And donā€™t forget why I named you Diana, you are the light within the darkness.ā€ So she refused to give up.
After suffering a heart attack, he agreed to get help and slowly took control of his own life.
One day he suddenly called her to invite her out for coffee. Later that afternoon, she wrote on her blog: ā€œI feel like I just met my father for the first time today.ā€
ā€œI struggled to reconcile my feelings toward my fatherā€™s absence in my life, while continuing to care deeply for him and other homeless individuals.ā€
ā€œOver time, I learned to navigate through my feelings of desperation and became more vocal in my community about my fatherā€™s condition and what itā€™s like to watch a loved one battle mental illness.ā€
He is now doing very well, and they are rebuilding their relationship from the ground up. ā€œSo long as we are alive in this world, every day is an opportunity to take hold of that ā€˜second chance.ā€™ There is no failure unless you give up, and he never gave up. And I havenā€™t given up on him.ā€
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    Children, New York, and Police: WE ARE BLOCKADING I.C.E.
 I.C.E.is an out-of-control paramilitary
 police force with an $8 billion budget.
 I.C.E. imprisons 30,000 people a day in
 over 200 interment camps around the
 country
 I.C.E. vans leave the processing center at
 201 Varick Street and prowl the streets of
 New York City. They grab people from
 their homes, churches, and jobs. Starting
 now, we will halt the operation of I.C.E. at
 their Varick Street location.
 Join us at 201 Varick Street, NYC.
 Please share widely.
 NYCstopICE@gmail.com
 Twitter.com/NYCstopICE
anarcho-queer:
imageā€“descriptions:

theglowpt2:
for anyone in NYC (credit to @evandahm on twitter)
[id: a flyer.Ā  ā€œWe are blockading I.C.E. Ā 
I.C.E. is an out-of-control paramilitary police force with an $8 million budget.
I.C.E. imprisons 30,000 people a day in over 200 internment camps around the country.
I.C.E. vans leave the processing center at 201 Varick Street and prowl the streets of New York City.Ā  They grab people from their homes, churches, and jobs.Ā  Starting now, we will halt the operation of I.C.E. at their Varick Street location.
Join us at 201 Varick Street, NYC.
Please share widely.
NYCstopICE@gmail.com
Twitter.com/NYCstopICEā€
/end id]

Today is day 3 of #OccupyICENYC. Protesters have been gathering every day at 10 am.Ā 
700 children are being detained in the state of New York, 200 of which are in NYC.Ā 
The protests started in Portland on Sunday and activists are following suit across the United States:
Join or start an occupation at your nearest ICE office.Ā 

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Children, New York, and Police: WE ARE BLOCKADING I.C.E.
 I.C.E.is an out-of-control paramilitary
 police force with an $8 billion budget.
 I.C.E. imprisons 30,000 people a day in
 over 200 interment camps around the
 country
 I.C.E. vans leave the processing center at
 201 Varick Street and prowl the streets of
 New York City. They grab people from
 their homes, churches, and jobs. Starting
 now, we will halt the operation of I.C.E. at
 their Varick Street location.
 Join us at 201 Varick Street, NYC.
 Please share widely.
 NYCstopICE@gmail.com
 Twitter.com/NYCstopICE
anarcho-queer:
imageā€“descriptions:

theglowpt2:
for anyone in NYC (credit to @evandahm on twitter)
[id: a flyer.Ā  ā€œWe are blockading I.C.E. Ā 
I.C.E. is an out-of-control paramilitary police force with an $8 million budget.
I.C.E. imprisons 30,000 people a day in over 200 internment camps around the country.
I.C.E. vans leave the processing center at 201 Varick Street and prowl the streets of New York City.Ā  They grab people from their homes, churches, and jobs.Ā  Starting now, we will halt the operation of I.C.E. at their Varick Street location.
Join us at 201 Varick Street, NYC.
Please share widely.
NYCstopICE@gmail.com
Twitter.com/NYCstopICEā€
/end id]

Today is day 3 of #OccupyICENYC. Protesters have been gathering every day at 10 am.Ā 
700 children are being detained in the state of New York, 200 of which are in NYC.Ā 
The protests started in Portland on Sunday and activists are following suit across the United States:
Join or start an occupation at your nearest ICE office.Ā 

                
            

            
            
anarcho-queer:
imageā€“descriptions:

theglowpt2:
for anyone in NYC (credit to @evandahm on twitter)
[id: a flyer.Ā  ā€œWe are blockading I.C.E. ...

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Children, College, and Confidence: Maya's Homework
 5:32 PM (9 minutes ago)
 Bunmi Laditan
 to
 Hello Maya's teachers,
 Maya will be drastically reducing the amount of homework she does this year. She's been very stressed and is starting to have
 physical symptoms such as chest pain and waking up at 4AM worrying about her school workload.
 She's not behind academically and very much enjoys school. We've consulted with a tutor and a therapist suggested we lighten
 her workload. Doing 2-3 hours of homework after getting home at 4:30 is leaving little time for her to just be a child and enjoy
 family time and we'd like to avoid her sinking into a depression over this.
 Thank you for understanding.
 warmly, Bunmi
vaporwavevocap:

ryttu3k:
darkwizardjamesmason:

dienaziscum:

fishcustardandclintbarton:

huffingtonpost:


Mom declares her daughter is done with homework in viral email.
Blogger Bunmi Laditan sent her 10-year-oldā€™s school a clear message.
ā€œHello Mayaā€™s teachers,
Maya will be drastically reducing the amount of homework she does this year. Sheā€™s been very stressed and is starting to have physical symptoms such as chest pain and waking up at 4 a.m. worrying about her school workload. 
Sheā€™s not behind academically and very much enjoys school. We consulted with a tutor and a therapist suggested we lighten her workload. Doing 2-3 hours of homework after getting home at 4:30 is leaving little time for her to just be a child and enjoy family time and weā€™d like to avoid her sinking into a depression over this.ā€


A++++ parenting šŸ’œ

Iā€™ve talked with a whole cadre of child therapists and psychiatrists about this very issue. There is little conclusive evidenceĀ that homework significantly improves elementary school childrenā€™s grades, understanding of subjects, or facility with various operations, processes, etc. However, plenty of evidence suggests that ever-increasing amounts of homework for young children lead to stress, anxiety, emotional fatigue, resistance toward academics in general, lack of leisure time to build social/interpersonal skills, and poorer family relations. Ā (My kids were doing about 3 hours a week IN KINDERGARTEN, at age 5 ā€“ so thatā€™s Ā½ hour every night, after a 6.5 hour school day, or else saving it up for long slogs over the weekend, even more disruptive. And that wasnā€™t including reading practice!) 


We have stopped doing homework altogether with my 7 year old as a result of severe anxiety/depression and a learning disability. She had gotten to a place where she had so little self confidence and truly believed that she was stupid and worthless, not just because of homework of course ā€“ but every time we tried to sit down to do homework with her, itā€™d end in tears with her really vehemently berating herself, and no amount of encouragement could ameliorate the damage done. Now, granted, sheā€™s got other things going on besides just an overload of school work. But in NO WAY did the homework help her, either academically or emotionally.Ā 
No little kid should have to spend an hour or more each night getting through homework. Now, my deal with Siena is that if she wants to give her homework a shot, I will absolutely help her if she wishes for help, but I no longer force her to complete all of it or to work on it for some set length of time before finally throwing in the towel.Ā 
Guess what? With the pressure taken off, sheā€™s actually doing MORE independent work now, purely out of the desire to learn and practice, than she ever was before weā€™d decided with her therapy team and school that homework was just not a thing this kid could handle.
Luckily for my older daughter my schoolā€™s 3rd-grade team decided to hand out homework only 3x/week, and the sheets take no more than 15-20 minutes to complete. That is totally reasonable for 8-9 year olds!Ā 
Anyway tl;dr just because the school system may require it sure as shit doesnā€™t mean parents canā€™t, or shouldnā€™t, fight it. Do whatā€™s right for your kid, and above all, let them be kids.Ā 

I eventually stopped doing homework because I was overwhelmed by it.

There was an article just the other day in the local paper about a primary school thatā€™s abolishing homework! You can read it here (autoplay video, gives you a few seconds to stop it).


Homework is intrusive in a young childā€™s life. It makes sense for adults who will likely have to bring work home with them so in college itā€™s good training. But for young kids. No.

Seriously Iā€™m 100% on board with this. There are high school students expected to do three or four hours and beyond worth of homework every day. Itā€™s fucking ridiculous. And I work in elementary school where we literally have little kids develop anxiety disorder and have panic attacks over homework and testing. This shit is not normal.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Children, College, and Confidence: Maya's Homework
 5:32 PM (9 minutes ago)
 Bunmi Laditan
 to
 Hello Maya's teachers,
 Maya will be drastically reducing the amount of homework she does this year. She's been very stressed and is starting to have
 physical symptoms such as chest pain and waking up at 4AM worrying about her school workload.
 She's not behind academically and very much enjoys school. We've consulted with a tutor and a therapist suggested we lighten
 her workload. Doing 2-3 hours of homework after getting home at 4:30 is leaving little time for her to just be a child and enjoy
 family time and we'd like to avoid her sinking into a depression over this.
 Thank you for understanding.
 warmly, Bunmi
vaporwavevocap:

ryttu3k:
darkwizardjamesmason:

dienaziscum:

fishcustardandclintbarton:

huffingtonpost:


Mom declares her daughter is done with homework in viral email.
Blogger Bunmi Laditan sent her 10-year-oldā€™s school a clear message.
ā€œHello Mayaā€™s teachers,
Maya will be drastically reducing the amount of homework she does this year. Sheā€™s been very stressed and is starting to have physical symptoms such as chest pain and waking up at 4 a.m. worrying about her school workload. 
Sheā€™s not behind academically and very much enjoys school. We consulted with a tutor and a therapist suggested we lighten her workload. Doing 2-3 hours of homework after getting home at 4:30 is leaving little time for her to just be a child and enjoy family time and weā€™d like to avoid her sinking into a depression over this.ā€


A++++ parenting šŸ’œ

Iā€™ve talked with a whole cadre of child therapists and psychiatrists about this very issue. There is little conclusive evidenceĀ that homework significantly improves elementary school childrenā€™s grades, understanding of subjects, or facility with various operations, processes, etc. However, plenty of evidence suggests that ever-increasing amounts of homework for young children lead to stress, anxiety, emotional fatigue, resistance toward academics in general, lack of leisure time to build social/interpersonal skills, and poorer family relations. Ā (My kids were doing about 3 hours a week IN KINDERGARTEN, at age 5 ā€“ so thatā€™s Ā½ hour every night, after a 6.5 hour school day, or else saving it up for long slogs over the weekend, even more disruptive. And that wasnā€™t including reading practice!) 


We have stopped doing homework altogether with my 7 year old as a result of severe anxiety/depression and a learning disability. She had gotten to a place where she had so little self confidence and truly believed that she was stupid and worthless, not just because of homework of course ā€“ but every time we tried to sit down to do homework with her, itā€™d end in tears with her really vehemently berating herself, and no amount of encouragement could ameliorate the damage done. Now, granted, sheā€™s got other things going on besides just an overload of school work. But in NO WAY did the homework help her, either academically or emotionally.Ā 
No little kid should have to spend an hour or more each night getting through homework. Now, my deal with Siena is that if she wants to give her homework a shot, I will absolutely help her if she wishes for help, but I no longer force her to complete all of it or to work on it for some set length of time before finally throwing in the towel.Ā 
Guess what? With the pressure taken off, sheā€™s actually doing MORE independent work now, purely out of the desire to learn and practice, than she ever was before weā€™d decided with her therapy team and school that homework was just not a thing this kid could handle.
Luckily for my older daughter my schoolā€™s 3rd-grade team decided to hand out homework only 3x/week, and the sheets take no more than 15-20 minutes to complete. That is totally reasonable for 8-9 year olds!Ā 
Anyway tl;dr just because the school system may require it sure as shit doesnā€™t mean parents canā€™t, or shouldnā€™t, fight it. Do whatā€™s right for your kid, and above all, let them be kids.Ā 

I eventually stopped doing homework because I was overwhelmed by it.

There was an article just the other day in the local paper about a primary school thatā€™s abolishing homework! You can read it here (autoplay video, gives you a few seconds to stop it).


Homework is intrusive in a young childā€™s life. It makes sense for adults who will likely have to bring work home with them so in college itā€™s good training. But for young kids. No.

Seriously Iā€™m 100% on board with this. There are high school students expected to do three or four hours and beyond worth of homework every day. Itā€™s fucking ridiculous. And I work in elementary school where we literally have little kids develop anxiety disorder and have panic attacks over homework and testing. This shit is not normal.
                
            

            
            
vaporwavevocap:

ryttu3k:
darkwizardjamesmason:

dienaziscum:

fishcustardandclintbarton:

huffingtonpost:


Mom declares her daughter is do...