1. 15:22 26th Oct 2011

    Notes: 1909

    Reblogged from tastefullyoffensive

    Tags: parentinghumorkidsmotherfunny

    tastefullyoffensive: via

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  2. 12:25 24th Oct 2011

    Notes: 17716

    Reblogged from jonubian

    Tags: halloweenracismkidsparenting

    Poster campaign against racist halloween costumes

    madamethursday:

    saucy-sarah:

    There’s more:

    [Image: A young Arab man holding up a photograph of a white person offensively dressed in stereotyped “Sheik” clothing with a pretend bomb duct taped to their chest, holding a plastic cup and smiling. The text says: We’re a culture, not a costume. This is not who I am and this is not okay.]

    [Image: A young East Asian woman decent holding up a photograph of a white person dressed offensively and appropriatively in an over-the-top Geisha costume, with their hands pressed together in a prayer-like motion and an exaggerated pouty lip look on their face. The text says: We’re a culture, not a costume. This is not who I am and this is not okay.]

    [Image: A young Latino man holding up a picture of a white person offensively and appropriatively dressed in a costume wearing a sombrero, a colorful poncho with an exaggerated long handlebar mustache and a stuffed costume donkey on the front, making it look as if they are riding the donkey while smiling. The text says:  We’re a culture, not a costume. This is not who I am and this is not okay.]

    Students Teaching About Racism in Society is a Student Org at Ohio University.

     

  3. 10:56 28th Sep 2011

    Notes: 6

    Tags: Historyeducationracecivil rightskidstesting

    Many states have turned Dr. King’s life into a fable, said Mr. Bond, who now teaches at American University and the University of Virginia. He said his students knew that “there used to be segregation until Martin Luther King came along, that he marched and protested, that he was killed, and that then everything was all right.
    — 

    Sam Dillon

    (Reporting for the New York Times)

    THEN EVERYTHING WAS ALRIGHT.

    See also: why white Americans start with the assumption that we AREN’T racially-biased instead of the more historically-accurate assumption that WE ARE RACIALLY BIASED.

    Also of note:

    “Over the past decade, students have performed worse on federal history tests administered by the Department of Education than on tests in any other subject. On the history test last year, only 12 percent of high school seniors showed proficiency.”

    Doomed to repeat, but also, how can they possibly understand the meaning of current events without knowing the context out of which they come?

     

  4. 14:32 23rd Dec 2010

    Tags: kidsbabiesthis really happenedparenting

    "I'm mean"

    1. Me: You're cute, Señor Coconut.
    2. He (5): Señor Coconut? Why do you call me that?
    3. Me: Because you're cute.
    4. He (5): I'm not cute. I'm mean.
    5. Me: You are cute.
    6. He (5): (resigned) I'm mean in a cute way.
     

  5. 21:19 26th Oct 2010

    Notes: 2

    Tags: kidsparentingquotesrumorsgossipgender

    "Girl Glasses"

    1. Girl: Guess what? I was talking to [name redacted] and [other name] whispered to me "He's wearing girl glasses", so I whispered to [third name] "He's wearing girl glasses" and --
    2. Mom: [interrupting] So you started spreading a rumor about him?
    3. Girl: No...
    4. Mom: Just saying things behind his back you thought would hurt his feelings?
    5. Girl: No...
    6. Mom: Then, what?
    7. Girl: She just whispered that, so I whispered it, and...
    8. Mom: If you were whispering it, you must have known it might hurt his feelings.
    9. Girl: I wasn't trying to hurt his feelings. I mean, there are no such things as "Girl glasses" anyway.
    10. Mom: Then why were you whispering?
    11. Girl: I don't know.
    12. Mom: If that happens again, you can just say, "Whatever, I'm not going to play that."
    13. Girl: Yeah.
     

  6. 19:47 24th Oct 2010

    Tags: kidsparentingquotesfunnneeeeee

    This happened in the car

    1. Child 1: Close the damn window.
    2. Parents: *choke* *lmfao*
    3. Child 2: No.
    4. Child 1: Close the DAMN window.
    5. Child 2: Stop SAYING that!
    6. Child 1: If you don't close the damn window, I'm going to move on to worse words.
    7. Parents: Like what?
    8. Child 1: Like F.R.I.C.N.
    9. Parents: *dead*
     

  7. 09:25 21st Oct 2010

    Notes: 58

    Reblogged from justinalcon

    Tags: rapenot funnykids

    justinalcon: Presented without commentary from christwire.org ‘Conservative Values for an Unsaved World’ I’m sure you posted this because of the “kooky” captions, but surely you are aware that these are all shots of teachers convicted of pedophile-related offenses? Those Christians sure did get silly with the captions, but I think they have a right to be angry. Teachers who sexually abuse kids fucking suck. Here is a similar chart, of all female teachers, with a description of their crimes

    justinalcon:

    Presented without commentary from christwire.org ‘Conservative Values for an Unsaved World’

    I’m sure you posted this because of the “kooky” captions, but surely you are aware that these are all shots of teachers convicted of pedophile-related offenses? Those Christians sure did get silly with the captions, but I think they have a right to be angry. Teachers who sexually abuse kids fucking suck.

    Here is a similar chart, of all female teachers, with a description of their crimes

     

  8. 22:26 19th Oct 2010

    Tags: educationkidswow

    "We are all very special, every human on this planet is so special, so aren't we all deserving of something better, of using our minds for innovation, rather than memorization, for creativity, rather than futile activity, for rumination rather than stagnation? We are not here to get a degree, to then get a job, so we can consume industry-approved placation after placation. There is more, and more still."

    Coxsackie-Athens High School’s Valedictorian Erica Goldson criticizes the US educational system during the graduation ceremony (June 25, 2010)

    (alternate link to the full speech)

     

  9. 11:52

    Tags: kidsparentinggirlsfree the girls

    This I Promise

    Girlchild,

    I will always fight so you can have a voice.

    Love,

    Mama

     

  10. 11:44 18th Oct 2010

    Tags: kidsmusicwhip my hair back and forthwhip your hairwillow smith

    Whip. Your. Hair.

     

  11. 23:50 14th Oct 2010

    Tags: lgbtkidsfreedom

    Dyson is a girl-identified-boy. He’s 5. His mom wrote a kid’s book called “My Princess Boy” to support him & other kids like him. Love, love, love.

    Thanks to Alicia for the heads-up on this story.

     

  12. 13:55 15th Sep 2010

    Tags: motherbabieskidsrebecca walkerdecisions

    "Or perhaps in another lifetime I will meet my other child, the one I won’t be having. Or she will come to me in a dream in this life, and we will live together every night, after I fall asleep. Yes, I say to myself, yes. It isn’t that she doesn’t exist. It is just that she lives on the other side, and I will visit her and love her there."

    The last paragraph made me cry.

     

  13. 14:06 11th Aug 2010

    Notes: 2

    Reblogged from melissathornton

    Tags: photoslos angelesjacaranda treekids

    melimela: For @lakarune *beams with pride*

    melimela:

    For @lakarune

    *beams with pride*

     

  14. 16:43 7th Jun 2010

    Notes: 6

    Tags: parentingkidsgay marriagegay rightscivil rights

    So wait, people who work very hard to have children because they really want to have children turn out to be better parents than folks who got knocked up by accident? That doesn't sound very Christian!