Robin Bright

Educator, Special educator, Mom of three fabulous adults, grateful wife, Eternal Optimist, Teach to student Strengths, Strategies for Learning, sportsenthusiast

[TODAY @TODAYshow]

Michael Phelps addressed Ledecky's milestone moment in a sweet post on his Instagram story July 29.

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[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@CalltoActivism We need more acts of kindness daily! Yeah Matthew ‼️

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@CalltoActivism This is the America I’m proud of! Thank you to the police officers who risk their lives daily in this crazy world. With gratitude 😊

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

"I wanted to take a few minutes to share something incredible that happened today. This afternoon I picked up Andrew from school and we got on the metro headed home. We ride the metro everyday to and from school, so Andrew is used to it. It is usually about 45min to an hour depending on delays and what not, but as long I keep him occupied with his iPad or my phone he will sit patiently in our seat.

For those of you that don’t know, when you have a child with autism, your child will have some good days and then they will have some bad ones. Today was one of those bad days. Andrews biggest behavior problem (that he has been working on by learning calming strategies) is that sometimes when he gets upset, it will go two steps too far, and escalate into a full on meltdown/breakdown.

Today, Andrew was persistent on wanting to get out of the seat to stand in the middle of train while moving and running back and forth through it (which of course if he did he would fall). I kept trying everything to get him to sit, but he just wouldn’t (this fight went on for 20 min), that is when he his regular toddler tantrum turned into a meltdown, or what I call, the point of no return for him.

He started rolling on the floor, screaming, his shoe fell off and he flung it across the train, all while I’m on the floor trying to calm him down. Then he starts the kicking, hitting, pulling my hair while everyone in rush hour stares on the train, most thinking I was a bad parent who had an out of control child, even though really he can’t help it.

We got off at Gallery Place, one stop up from Metro Center where we change lines, still he doesn’t let up and it gets worse. Now we’re rolling around on the dirty station floor. He is covered in black dirt. I try picking him up but he continues to kick which now gets dirt on me. This goes on for about 15 minutes. Trust me this isn’t my first rodeo as a single parent, but sometimes it just gets the best of me. At this point I am crying out of pure frustration and feeling so sad that Andrew is being judged right now.

I panic as I see someone walking towards us, but it turns out to be a Metro Police Officer. As soon as he comes over Andrew freezes and stares while holding my hands, body mid air, feet stretched out on me, while I was standing. The officer asks me if I needed any help or if he could help by walking us out of station (since he saw how Andrew stopped when he came over) I explained the situation to him and how this wasn’t even our stop. He asked where I was going and I told him Ballston station (a solid 30 minutes from where we were). Without hesitation he said, “Okay I’ll come on the train”.

At this point I’m thinking he means like down the escalator to the train. He starts talking with Andrew and showing him all his gadgets. He then takes off his Velcro police badge from his vest and asks Andrew, “Can you be a police man with me and help me do police work on the train?” Of course Andrew says yes.
The officer ends up riding the metro THE ENTIRE train home with us!!! Whenever he got off he would hold Andrews hand and walk with him. He sat next to Andrew as he requested on the train, acted interested as he showed him silly videos, and he even made funny faces in the Instagram face filters when Andrew asked.
This officer COMPLETELY went out of his way to help Andrew. He honestly restored my faith that there are good people still left in the world.

To that officer, I truly can not say thank you enough for your inmesurable amount of kindness and for making Andrews day (probably his whole year). Throughout the whole ordeal I didn’t get his name, I think his vest said Officer D. Case. Washington Metropolitan Police Dept. please find him and give him a raise! He deserves to be recognized for his incredible kind gesture, and especially for letting Andrew keep the police badge. Thank you thank you!!👮🏼‍♂️💙🧩

Credit: Taylor Pomilla

[CBS News @CBSNews]

This 4-year-old wowed people online by discussing his emotions with his mom. He had a tough day, but they talked it out 🥺

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@BarackObama Thank you for your true expression of gratitude.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving! As we celebrate, let's give thanks for all the blessings in our lives and give back when we can. We’re also thinking of the brave men and women serving our country far from their home.

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

This!

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

If teachers were paid for every hour that we work, we’d all be making six figures— easily.

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@MarkMaxwellTV Disgusting

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@TheWeirdTeacher Still masking for everyone’s safety.

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@AmericanAir I wonder how long is reasonable to be in hold…I’d love to speak to a representative, 4 1/2 hours … hummm and the same terrible music #CustomerService #this stinks!

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@FightCrimeIL @NAEYC Teacher ECE, are the lowest paid workers in the USA.

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Data from @NAEYC show that "as many as 80% of workers in certain states are citing wages as a reason they’ve left the #childcare industry." Increased funding is needed to bolster our #earlychildhood system & provide our kids quality care. https://t.co/O4Om7LcDu0

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@WBBM780Traffic
Truck- car accident just west of Landwher on Willow Rd. Already backing up.

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@ClaireVerti Developing relationships with children is vital and it goes beyond their name and where they live🍎

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@AmericanAir after sitting on hold for 3 hours and 45 today with no resolution....When do you pay me for my time?
#nocustomerservice

[Wolf Blitzer @wolfblitzer]

President @JoeBiden just said: “We won’t ignore what our own intelligence agencies have determined - the most lethal terrorism threat to the homeland today is from white supremacist terrorism.”

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@Cubs @D_Ross3 Play ball!⚾️April 1!

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@braininsights Play is the work of healthy children!

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@CNN Hope CIA and FBI are followers😆

[Robin Bright @robinbright123]

@CNN Looking forward to the amazing things this young man will do!