We now live in a world where the driving force of technologies that define everyday life are pioneered by the military and the porn industry. Pornsites are able to accumulate data that helps them create content that appeals to precise tastes. To put things in perspective, 125 million people visit Pornhub daily and its not even the pornographic site with the most traffic.
I am wondering what to teach my children about winter. Beyond telling them that it is a cold weather season that black people don’t like. I don’t want them to be like my former self, afraid of the cold. I was raised in a country dissected almost equally by the equator. In Kenya, we experience…
Parenting psychologists generally assert that the first three years of a child’s life are foundational. How many fathers become absent in the early stages of infancy only to return bearing gifts and engaging in remedial parenting hoping to catch up on lost years over a series of fun weekends? Gabor Maté explains that children have an attachment need and in the absence of a nurturing adult to attach to, they tend to fill the void with a peer group.