He doesn’t seem to hear me when I tell him to pick up his socks, but on the bigger issues…

My child asked another if she was Korean or Chinese, because, as he said “I didn’t want to assume.”
He asked if you could tell someone’s race from their bones. (Specifically, would people be racist if we were [...]

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 According to psychologytoday.com, a mid-life crisis can hit around age 40, plus or minus 20 years, and can include “questioning decisions made years earlier and the meaning of life.”  However, in the words of English novelist George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans), “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”  As [...]

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Scene:  Mom and Dillon take 100 foot walk from front door to garage door, the exact same walk they have taken over 1,700 times in the past 5 years.  Dillon teaches mom lesson about intercultural communications.
FADE IN:
FRONT DOOR OF HOME   OUTSIDE ON PORCH         MORNING
MOM pushes DILLON outside and turns to lock door behind them.  Dillon [...]

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My 7 year old learned the N-word a few weeks ago, and was immediately told that it was bad, 1.) Because he would get beat up if he used it (explanation from my dad) and 2.) It was just a bad word, “Like the F-word” (explanation from me).  I was left with a fear from [...]

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