Karl Tapales/Moment/Getty Images Everyone aspires to be and raise a healthy eater. Honestly, it’s a great goal! But food politics within families can get brutal. What, when, and how much someone is eating — especially if it’s something considered a “bad” food or a “junk food” — can get dicey, and the line between “I’m worried about your health and nutrition” and “I’m food and body shaming you” can be thin indeed. This is something Redditor u/WinComprehensive8274 (we’ll call her Win) recently encountered with her sister and nephew. Now she wants to know “Am I The Assh*le”? “Feeling increasingly guilty...
Trump Is Demanding Colleges To Submit Data On Students' Race
Win McNamee/Getty Images News/Getty Images Colleges and universities have often found themselves in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and the president himself. Decried as hotbeds of liberalism and left-wing radicals, institutions like Harvard, Columbia, and others have been threatened with legal action and withholding of federal grants and funds. Now, Trump has claimed, without hard evidence, that colleges continue to consider and admit students based exclusively on race despite a 2023 Supreme Court ruling to stop such practices. He has issued a statement to demand further transparency in order to “ultimately [rid] society of shameful, dangerous racial hierarchies.” “American...
If You Grew Up Watching 'Reba', You Have To Watch Netflix's 'Leanne'
Did you also have a ‘90s country upbringing? Personally, in my house, the radio was always tuned to stations playing Alan Jackson and Mindy McCready, my sister’s SHeDAISY CD looped endlessly in the car, Tombstone was always on the TV, and naturally our favorite sitcom was Reba. When my mom and I lived with my grandparents for a bit in the 2010s, my grandpa would always put on sitcoms after dinner. Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, and still, Reba was the real crowd pleaser. She and her blended family reflected so much about our family. And now I’m getting...
When Schools Try to Erase Diversity, Parents Have To Make It Part Of The Curriculum
We teach our kids all kinds of things. How to tie their shoes. How to ride a bike. How to say “please” and “thank you.” How to swim. Parenting is an endless loop of lessons — many practical, some even silly. But then there are the big things, the ones that literally shape our kids’ humanity. We teach them to treat people with dignity and respect. We teach them that every person’s story matters. And when we send our kids to school, we hope those lessons will be reinforced in the classroom. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Teachers do...