Lotus Tribe

27/11/2022

This morning a few people saw my daughter walking to school & me following behind her. Some asked me why I did that & others gave me a stank stare.

I’m very well aware she’s only 10. And she walked Because I told her to.

Because she forgot how to treat adults, So I told her to walk.
Because she mistakenly associated her size with her authority, So I told her to walk.
Because her behavior towards me & other adults is unacceptable, So I told her to walk

Until she can appreciate the free ride to/from school. Respect and listen to me. I'm the mom who is watching to know that she's safe. I'm also the mom who is not here to be her friend. I'm the mom who is okay with her child being angry at her sometimes. I'm the mom who is desperate to leave this world better than I found it, through the people I'm bringing up into it.

A lot of people are so afraid to hurt their kid's feelings, but she'll only be mad at me for a little while.
I'm more afraid of my kid growing up to be an entitled as***le.

We're not here to be their friends. We're here to make sure they grow up to become a friend worth having. So yeah she was walking. Thinking. Reflecting. Maturing. Learning. Growing.
And I'm watching. ❤️

01/02/2021

The health sector was the top lobbying spender in 2020, shelling out a record $615 million. Big Pharma spent a record $306.23 million and was awarded lucrative federal contracts.

24/03/2014

"We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, committed for our safety to its security and peace, preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say, the love we give our fragile craft.
We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable; half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of mankind, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day.
No craft, no crew, can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all."
Attributed to Adlai Stevenson

06/09/2013

BREAKING NEWS: DEAR FAMILIES, Our center has been closed for business for the past several months. Our director Ms. Sharif has been actively engaging in policy making and advocacy issues that will greatly impact YOUR CHILDREN, and our future. On May of 2012, Ms. Sharif voluntarily surrendered her License to the Department of Social Services and is in the process of completing a home-made video production to tell her story and share the information with as many families and people as she can. Stay tuned, and Please WATCH the DOCUMENTARY below produced by an active organization Parental Rights parentalrights.com http://youtu.be/qzXW4pHs6uk

Parental Rights are being eroded. Parentalrights.org is fighting for the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit. Parents all over America ...

18/04/2013

http://youtu.be/_5uptYHsrEs

A pilgrimage of inquiry from which there is no return The mind that has really gone into all this, that has entered upon a pilgrimage of inquiry from which t...

27/03/2013

In lieu of the recent gun violence....Please support the Youth Promise Act, a petition signed by many concerned educators, artists, musicians and congressmen....

http://youtu.be/X6kJs_krR9U

http://www.youthpromiseaction.org - Noteable Public figures support legislation, including: Flea, Casey Affleck, Rep. Bobby Scott, Rep. Judy Chu, Joaquin Pho...