Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Thugs
Across America, many Black boys are increasingly embracing the “thug life.” Once they reach adulthood, this embracement of the thug life persists. Although I understand that in the postmodern epoch...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Ends Where Good Parenting Begins
One of my Facebook friends and loyal readers, Ginnie Ann Daniels, inspired me to pen this present piece about how good parenting can eliminate domestic violence. Ginnie taught her children at an early...
View ArticleForm A Black Parents Association
Increased and improved parental involvement is unquestionably a crucial dimension of true education reform. As I continue to think about solutions to remedying the significant academic...
View ArticleAct Like You Have Children
Too many adults who have children behave in very immature ways that do not set a positive example for their children. The level of maturity of many of these adults with children makes it difficult to...
View ArticleOpen Letter to All Ungrateful Parents
Dear Ungrateful Parents: When you have children who are going great things and you never give them any praise, you deserve to be called ungrateful parents. You should show your children who are doing...
View ArticleCyberbullying and Student Safety
The advancements in technology have been tremendously beneficial. These wonderful improvements in technology present new challenges for school administrators, however. Twitter, Facebook, blogs and...
View ArticleTeenagers Need Curfews
If you want your teenagers to stay out of trouble, you must establish a curfew for them. Teenagers will make many unwise choices when you let them choose when they are to return home. When you give...
View ArticlePosting & Sharing Your Child’s Photos Online: Etiquette & Safety Risks
New parents are eager and enthusiastic to share photos of their precious new bundle of joy with everyone they know. Prior to our digitally dependent culture, baby photographs were mailed to friends...
View ArticleRaise Him Up: A Single Mother’s Guide to Raising a Successful Black Man: A...
(Photo Credit: BookLook Bloggers) In Raise Him Up: A Single Mother’s Guide to Raising a Successful Black Man (2013), Stephanie Perry Moore offers the reader some personal insights about the struggles...
View ArticleKids and Technology: Set an Example While They’re Young
(Photo Credit: Digital Trends) As most parents know, your kids are watching you all of the time. You don’t have to sit down and have a formal conversation with them to teach them things; even kids who...
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