I want to share my experience to show just one more example of how the entertainment industry accepts and rewards exploitation and inequity.
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With COVID 19 surging around the world, the only thing certain right about being a parent is uncertainty. Your children’s school may have started out 100% virtual, then went hybrid and now may be returning back to entirely online, or not. It’s enough to try the patience of even the most level headed parent and kids.
No parent can manage their lives perfectly. It wasn’t possible before covid-19 — despite our curated social media posts to the contrary — and it’s not possible now. Trying to be the perfect parent has always distracted us from being the parents our children need us to be: people who can acknowledge our struggles and mistakes with messy grace.
Wiseman wrote an open letter to Maret’s students about the school’s past culture and how she believes they can help Maret move forward.
The art of the discipline is to hold people accountable for their actions, while understanding the context of their reactions.
‘Politically Correct,’ For Whom? By Rosalind Wiseman When I first started teaching high school students, the term “politically correct” routinely came up. Especially when I covered sexual harassment, it was...
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Adults should help young people navigate the anxiety and feelings of rejection and disappointment, not contribute to them.
We, at Cultures of Dignity, want to address the op-ed our co-founder, Rosalind Wiseman, published in the Huffington Post on Tuesday, January 22nd titled To The Teachers And Parents Of...
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Making it Meaningful: Interrupting Biased Comments in the Classroom By Rosalind Wiseman What do you do if you if think you hear one of your students make a racist,...
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Social media and technology rules can be challenging for teachers and parents to get on the same page. Here is how to create a cellphone policy for everyone.
To Tell Or Not To Tell: How To Respond When Our Kids Confide In Us By Rosalind Wiseman “Mom – I am going to tell you something but you have to...
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10 Tips for Avoiding the “Perfect Parent” Trap By Rosalind Wiseman Forget trying to live up to the impossible "ideal parent". Here are tips to avoid the perfect parent...
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Caught! How to Reach Out to the Student in Trouble By Rosalind Wiseman Students are going to get into trouble. They are going to make mistakes. They are going...
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Telling An Adult Isn't So Easy By Rosalind Wiseman In schools, we encourage young people to report when they see a classmate break a rule. “If you see something,...
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