maybe the best part of my job (minus the cute i love you's and pictures i receive of me as a princess) is teaching. sometimes when people ask me what i do i respond by saying: im working to do my part to create wholestic human beings. its funny. 

lately my kids have started to call each other gay...of course when they come into my office to talk about what happened they swear they meant happiness :). whenever this situation comes up i have talk i always give. the talk starts by learning the definitions of minorities and majorities.  

then i draw a 'pie' that represents all the people living in america. i divide the pie into 8 slices and have the child label how many slices are taken up by the majority in america (caucasian) and how many slices for the minority (which he said was black, Hispanic, those who are gay and french people). i then asked the child if everyone screams...what group would you hear the most? of course the answer is the majority (in this case...caucasian). the talk ends by saying: as humans its our job to stand up and speak up for ALL those who have no voice...for the people we can not hear. today the kid turned to me and said, "wow" in this overwhelmed type of voice...like all of a sudden he has a whole lot of work ahead of him.

and he does. we all do have a load of work ahead of us to stand up. speak up. work hard. rally. and LOVE.