We were recently watching an old Family Guy episode where a human Brian from a parallel universe comes to live in our own. Since he was a “white” dog he was transformed into a “white” human and Stewie says, “Hey, You’re White! You have NO idea how BIG that is here.” Indeed. The work done… Continue reading Teaching my Son about White Male Privilege
Month: October 2014
Parent Thyself
I stood over my kid as he freaked about long division. He was tired, hungry and had already done this problem 50 times in the past, but his brain was hiccupping on this one step. He was insisting he’d done it this way all along and couldn’t understand why it no longer worked. As his… Continue reading Parent Thyself