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Color Doesn’t Matter: Parents Want What’s Best

Parents want what’s best for the kids. Immigrant parents, including Latinos, know their kids need to speak English to have the best chance at success. Parents of all colors know their kids need to succeed at school. The problem isn’t the parents, it’s a system that intervenes and forces parents to believe in the way […]

Bethanne Kim 10 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Ages and Stages Family Featured General

What It’s Like Having the First Responder Gene

How would you react in a disaster? Would / do you freeze, panic, or act? I don’t know what the term is, really, but I’ve always thought of it as having the “First Responder Gene”. It doesn’t have anything to do with working as a First Responder – EMT, Firefighter, etc. – but rather with […]

Bethanne Kim 10 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Ages and Stages Family Featured General

It’s all about the kids

I have had a blog at HistoricalConstitution.com for several years but had a hard time posting regularly because I felt like my posts needed to be more “scholarly” and devoid of my personal biases and feelings as much as possible. Frankly, that just hasn’t worked for me. Some of my view skew left, some right, […]

Bethanne Kim 10 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Ages and Stages Family Featured School

The Michelle Obama School Lunch Bill

First, I don’t like the Michelle Obama school lunch bill. There is a huge difference in what the high school linebacker needs – truly needs – to eat and what a scrawny ninth grader who is barely 90 lbs soaking wet needs to eat, and the law doesn’t take that into account. Second, I am […]

Bethanne Kim 10 years agoFebruary 1, 2022