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Knees Buried in Necks & Finding Hope for the Future
I have spent many hours over the past few days in tears, holding my children, grappling with feelings of utter despair and wondering if the well of optimism, having sustained black people for hundreds of years through the most vile and unfathomable evils, is...
The Legacy of Housing Segregation Lives On
Beginning in the 17th century and continuing for the next 200 years, untold millions of Africans were kidnapped, shipped across the Atlantic under abominable conditions, violently tortured, brutally dehumanized and enslaved. Slavery created extraordinary wealth and...
How to Triage Your Life in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the E.R.
As Coronavirus infections and deaths continue to mount around the globe, so do our feelings of anxiety, worry and the sense that we have lost control of our lives in fundamental ways. Yet, my conversation this week with mom and Yale- and Harvard-trained ER...
Teaching our Teens to Find Their Passion
As the Coronavirus sweeps the globe, it is having a microscopic effect—revealing for many the challenges we face as a human family; the very challenges we dissect and discuss on each episode of Parenting for the Future. The systemic racism in our societies. The...
Quarantine Life: Ideas for making the most of family time
Wherever you are in the world, you, like us at Parenting For The Future, are undoubtedly adjusting to the new normal. You may be working from home, helping your children go to school or keep up with their studies digitally, recalibrating your finances, strategizing...
Coronavirus Toolkit for Parents
I hope you are doing well and staying healthy. I am writing to let you know that Parenting for the Future will now release episodes every other Tuesday. This will allow us to share more tools, resources and guidance that are responsive to the current events and...
Recommended Activities to Keep Black History Month Education Going All Year
Activities: Take the Implicit Bias Test Visit Equal Justice Work’s Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice Visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture Visit the National Underground Railroad Freedom...
A List of Talks, Movies & Documentaries to Watch for Black History Month
Ted Talks My road trip through the whitest towns of America —Rich Benjamin How to Overcome your Biases? Walk Boldly Towards Them — Vrenã Myers We need to Talk about an Injustice — Bryan Stevenson The Little Problem I Had Renting a House - James A. White Sr....
A Black History Month Reading List for Parents, Educators & Children
For Parents and Educators Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good...
Beyond Black History Month: Resources for Parents, Educators and Children
Suggestions for things to read, see and do to help us continue to focus on the parts of our history that have so profoundly shaped our present and that we will need to reshape if all our children are to have a real future.
