On My Mind
Successful Parent Conferences
My son’s first “real” parent conference is scheduled for today. Why am I so nervous? Certainly, as a teacher, I’ve conducted hundreds of parent conferences over the years – conference time, for us was a nice short day, where either you could get your extra work done, or chat with the teacher next [...]
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About this Site
I decided to migrate my blog to a sort of all in one site for all my interests as a mom and former educator. As you can see, I have LOT of interests – I hope some of these interests are interesting to you. Comments are welcomed and encouraged – even if you don’t agree with me! Have fun reading. N’mama
Featured Articles
If your child can’t read, s/he has little to no hope of performing well in school. If black children are ...
This is reprint of an article from USA Today. I have included the link at the bottom of the post. 'Not ...
As an educator of over 15 years, a black parent: the mother of three children of my own, I ...
Readers: This is a reprint of an article that I found here. African American Children and Identity By Christine Longmore Raising Black ...
Our Boys
Black men and educationBlack men and education: Focus of Urban League report
Marlon A. Walker
This year’s “The State of Black America” study by the National Urban League pays the most attention to Black males because they are further away from parity with their White counterparts in several significant categories.
Black men face the greatest battle to gain equality in society, [...]
Seems like boys and school just don’t mix, do they? They just can’t seem to take four to five hours of sitting still at a desk, writing or reading or listening to the teacher. They wriggle, they scratch themselves, they crumple up little pieces of paper, they look around the room to see [...]
Our Girls
Sexualization of our girlsAlthough this is not specifically a black children issue, rather an issue about our children in general, I am still going to address this new and disturbing phenomenon in this blog. Have you ever seen the show “My Super Sweet Sixteen”? I had the misfortune of catching a portion of this show and [...]
Parenthood
Children and SleepI am a person who is in bed, in my night clothes by 9 pm. Of course, I am an at-home mom whose day begins, whether I like it or not, by 6 am. On top of that, I run a business and am responsible for three little’uns under 5 for most of the day. [...]
