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A Tall Order For Adults Who Care About Bullied Kids

Reading Time: 2 minutes If we want kids to feel good about themselves, feel like they matter and know they’re enough, then we’re going to have to step up and become MAJOR influencers in their lives. 

How do we do it? We make our message louder and clearer than the messages kids receive through social media and their peers.

Not easy. But if we want our kids to feel the kind of confidence that stands firm in the face of bullies, then this is our work.

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WHY I AM A FEMINIST – THE ANKLE-GREEN SCHOOL SKIRT, RECLAIMING YOUR BODY AFTER ASSAULT

Reading Time: 5 minutes I still walk, like most women, with my keys in my hands and fear dark alleyways, and this sadly wasn’t the last time my sexuality would be violated by straying hands, forced kisses, catcalls, harassment.

But it was the point when I faced a choice – whether to let this violent attack define me or whether I was going to define myself.

I could stay in ankle-green school skirts or their adult equivalent and believe that women incite attacks and take the blame the police had tried to hand to me.

Or I could hand it back.

So I did.

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The Young Turks: Trump’s PATHETIC New Ad

Reading Time: < 1 minute “The Trump campaign released a Uncle Sam-style 2020 campaign advertisement on Monday that urged the President’s supporters to call a 1-800 number and leave a ‘thank you’ message for President Trump. ‘I need you to call the number on your screen and deliver a ‘thank you’ to President Trump,’ Campaign manager Brad Parscale said, pointing his finger at viewers, while touting a ‘booming economy,’ ‘historic low unemployment’ and Trump’s foreign policy efforts, overlaid with video of factory workers, the American flag, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Trump’s campaign rallies.

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Astrology: Getting the urge to make shit real? Good!

Reading Time: 4 minutes Think of this week as the point in the sea-goat journey that moves from sea to land. Concepts solidify into ideas and plans that you can begin to articulate clearly. You may not know every single detail just yet, but as you allow some things to come into focus, others are not far behind.

You’re at base camp on the beach, preparing for the mountain climb – and we know not to rush that preparation if we want the next bit to go well.

With those elements of  ‘anything is possible’ and ‘doing it MY way!’ at play, you can let them inspire the choices you make while you’re there on the beach, doing your prep for the mountain climb.

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