When I turned 13 my mom sat me down and gave me a brief. She said (in Zulu), “you are about to enter a stage. You are gonna want to act crazy. The problem with that is that I’m better at it. Let’s keep the peace by self regulating and we will get through this.”.
It worked. 🤣🤣
A mother kept her child in a draw under the bed for 3 YEARS. The baby never saw the light of day, was severely malnourished + deformed & had been completely deprived of attention and no one knew it existed, not even the mother’s other kids! It happened here in the Uk.
SAD season officially just started. take your vitamin D, magnesium, wake up earlier, eat more soups, more root vegetables, more journaling, more exercise, and more time outside.
when the seasons change, it also teaches us what needs to change in our lives.
Saw a video of a European American nurse bragging about denying Sickle Cell patients, who are having crises episodes, pain medication.
Her comments were also of other white nurses boasting about doing the same.
Medical racism is so sinister and murderous.
I drove my friend to a bank, and after she came out I dropped her down the road and drove through Streatham. I'm hyper vigilant for a number of reasons, one reason- being a black yute in this here England. I looked in my rear-view mirror and noticed a car moving extremely erratic
I do think we (the next adults) need to work on and curb our phone/ social media addiction if we want to raise well rounded, playing outside, smart children.