During World War II, 600,000 African-American women entered the wartime
workforce. Previously, black women’s work in the United States was
largely limited to domestic service and agricultural work, and wartime
industries meant new and better-paying opportunities – if they made it
through the hiring process, that is. White women were the targets of the
U.S. government’s propaganda efforts, as embodied in the lasting and
lauded image of Rosie the Riveter.Though largely ignored in America’s
popular history of World War II, black women’s important contributions
in World War II factories, which weren’t always so welcoming, are
stunningly captured in these comparably rare snapshots of black Rosie
the Riveters.
If you are a parent of a child with ADHD (or even for yourself). It is OKAY to give accommodations or modifications in your home life. It is okay to work with your child to create a schedule or ways in which things are done around the house.
For example. I always hated doing the dishes, the feeling of stuff floating around was super icky and I hated it. Instead of telling me as a child to suck it up, ask your child WHY they don’t like. Make the accommodation of giving them gloves to use or a different type of brush.
If your child struggles with time management. Buy some clocks, set extra reminders TAlk to your child, ask them how many reminders and when do they want them before you are ready to leave the house. I.e. we are leaving in two hours, go take a shower, we are leaving in half an hour and a half start getting dressed. We are leaving in 30 mins, five mins etc.
You should not get mad at your child when they struggle with something if you have not spoken to them about the issue and accommodations that they need to make it easier.
This is so important for two reasons.
1) it is showing the child that with interventions their symptoms can be managed. It also shows that if something doesn’t work, you can try different things to help. There won’t be an internalization of “ I am lazy, I am dumb, I am bad”. It will instead be “ I need to try something else to be successful”
2) it models how to A) put into words the problem and how they are feeling. The child is learning to express with words (written or otherwise) and their issues are taken seriously. This will not only make your life easier but it will make it easier in school for the child to have this skill to say “ I am struggling with this because”. they might not have those communication skills yet but it will be easier for them to say I don’t want to do this right now because I am angry. Then just letting them have an adhd meltdown.
B) IT TEACHES THEM HOW TO ASK FOR ACCOMMODATIONS. This is SO So SO important. Whether they are in k-12 or not, being self advocates is one of the most important skills that they will learn. The child being active in IEP meetings or having the ability to go to their case manager and saying “ this accommodation is not working or this teacher is not giving me what I need”. This skill is so important. (Of course have them talk to you first before they go in lol). It is teaching them that their accommodations are nothing to be embarrassed about and that they need to be taken seriously. Which will make all the difference in college.
It also makes the difference in the workforce as well. Being able, as an adult to ask for accommodation will be very different than in education and the way to go about that will be different. But your child will already have that groundwork of being a self advocate and be able to speak about what they need in order to be successful.. and even if their request isn’t granted, the y will know that their success and self worth is not wrapped in their ability to complete the task well.
So, recap: talk to your kids (and yourself) about why things are bothering them and what can be done to make the tasks easier. Set up a plan and teach them to communicate their needs and stand by them. Take them seriously.
Feel free to post things that either worked or didn’t work for you as a child or a parent around the topic. It would be great to see what everyone has gone through.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page
Separation of young children, in fact any children, from their carer is
child abuse, and I would love to see those who initiated and implemented
this policy charged with this offence.
This bedraggled-looking pipistrelle had become stuck to a sheet of fly paper and was covered in glue. Its wing membranes were stuck fast and it could barely move.
Using coconut oil and a special solvent, Simon and our vet team carefully separated the bat from the paper and cleaned off the glue. After drying out in an incubator, it was sent away with a specialist bat carer for round the clock care and we hope it will make a full recovery!
Yeah if that kid was black he would be called a thug this is nothing against the kid , I mean knowing how to use a gun is not a bad thing but for him at that age it’s a lil too early for that
That’s abjectly terrifying.
KIDS SHOULD NOT BE HANDLING WEAPONS THAT ARE LITERALLY BIGGER THAN THEY ARE WHAT THE FUCK ARE HIS PARENTS EVEN THINKING
4 YEAR OLDS SHOULD NOT EVEN BE TOUCHING WEAPONS MADE FOR KILLING LET ALONE KNOWING HOW TO USE THEM
my heart fucking stopped just seeing a kid that close to a weapon
I have such a thing about small kids in danger, my anxiety is going through the roof jfc
He is four. That’s not cute. That gun is bigger than the the kid. If you want to teach your kid how to use a gun that’s your business, but please wait until they are bigger and old enough to comprehend the damage a gun can do.
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