whenever someone posts their bookshelf or book pile, I go through each book because the rule is… I have to had read at least one thing in the picture. And if I haven’t read anything, then this person whose books I’m inspecting has “won” and that’s why I need to read everything
I got a call from my daughter’s high school principal today. He said she’d been caught operating an “unauthorized commercial enterprise” out of the girls’ locker room. My stomach DROPPED. I left work immediately, already imagining the worst: Drugs. Vapes. Stolen stuff. Some TikTok side hustle gone wrong. By the time I got to the school, I was preparing myself for lawyers, suspension, maybe even police involvement. I walk into the principal’s office….…and my daughter is sitting there quietly with a spiral notebook full of spreadsheets. Not cash. Not customer lists. Spreadsheets. Turns out, she’d noticed some girls at school were quietly struggling: • no money for feminine hygiene products • no winter jackets • wearing the same clothes every week after budget cuts hit families hard So she started her own underground support network. She collected donated jackets, hygiene products, gloves, and clothes from wealthier neighborhoods.
Then she cataloged everything by size and need in her notebook like a tiny operations manager. And from her gym locker, she distributed items discreetly to students who needed them — no embarrassment, no announcements, no attention. The principal wasn’t calling because she was in trouble. He called because the school found out… and wanted my permission to turn her “illegal locker room business” into an official school charity program.
I thought I was driving to the biggest parenting nightmare of my life. Instead, I walked into one of the proudest moments I’ve ever had as a parent.
@Yemihazan@mordybarry I used to go there almost every month to send money to my brother who was a student at Novena university.
The building is still very vacant in Calabar since they shut down. It’s opposite transcorp
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Coz I do!!!💃🏽
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se eu levar um livro para algum lugar, isso não significa necessariamente que vou ler, talvez eu só queira levar ele para passear. pegar um pouco de ar fresco, dar a ele uma possibilidade da mudança de cenário.