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Help Families at the Border: #bestlifeforall
When I look at my children, I can’t help but think about the unconscionable injustice in our world. Why does my family get to live out our vision for how we want our life to be? Why do my children get to grow up in relative safety while other families just fight to survive? Or don’t survive? How is the way that I live built upon the suffering of others? Most immediately, I am wondering, “What can we do to help families at the border?”
The recent New York Times editorial shares a lot of concrete ideas. I pasted some of them below for easy reference:
Ways to Help
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How to Talk to Kids about the Conflict in Sudan
It breaks my heart that I got to enjoy a two-week vacation with my family in upstate New York, while the Sudanese continue to suffer. Britt Hawthorne brought the recent events to my attention. I read the article that she recommended and took action. I also want to figure out how to talk to kids about the conflict in Sudan. If we are going to raise leaders of tomorrow, we have to continually help them understand both the beauty and the atrocity in the world.
According to Montessori theory, children shift from “The Absorbent Mind” to the “Reasoning Mind” around six years of age. In the first six years, we … Read More
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Black Lives Matter
When I get extremely overwhelmed, my exposure to current events is limited to Facebook. I don’t have time for much else. When I’m really, really overwhelmed, I don’t even have time for Facebook.
So when I got invited to a vigil for Sandra Bland, I didn’t even know what it was about. The next day during professional development, two of our staff members led a session on culturally responsive education, and they showed the footage of her arrest.
I can’t even begin to describe what I felt while watching it. Outrage. Disgust. Desperation. A lack of hope.
It was so hard to watch a smart, educated black … Read More