Adoptee turned foster, now adoptive parent (2021) working with, around and beyond the NYC foster care system (since 2008) - hipster glasses optional. she/her
New York, NY
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My annual reminder of why you see & hear so much more about Clemmie than Kid #1 & Jacket. I’ll be Clem’s guardian for life, Kid #1 & Jacket will have their own say very soon!
It would have been so nice if ACS had given us a documents to-do list after adoption with phone # & addresses. From the birth certificate, to SS cards, DOE record changes, etc. I’m JUST NOW getting the girls’ vax records merged in NYSIIS.
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This would’ve turned out quite differently if the little boy was Black.
One of these bad boys made it into my Sons’ classroom. They sting real bad.
Picture all the screaming from the middle school girls and a teacher with a can of raid trying to drown it in vain.
My 12 year old tells them all to chill, walks up and says “you have to cut them in half” takes out his knife and disposes of it.
As he tells me the story I realize that’s why I’m being called in by the principal. “Yeah. Mom, see if you can get my knife back”
The principal hands it to me. “It’s ok, he’s not in trouble, we know he is a country boy. He just can’t bring it again.”
🤠
Rebecca switching to Bluesky (Fosterhood) retweeted
Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had less than 10 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 90,000.
Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have 10 gun deaths per year; the US has nearly 50,000.
It’s the guns.
RFK JR on Mass Shootings: There are many things that happened in the 1990’s that could explain these. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs… there could be connections with video games
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
RFK Jr presents a disproven theory for mass shooters;
Video games have been proven time & time again to not influence violent behavior.
This claim has been around for almost 40 years & has been repeatedly disproven.
ox.ac.uk/news/2019-02-1…
theguardian.com/games/2020/jul…
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
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Come to the Preserving Family Bonds Legislation; Public Forum & Discussion Event | Virtually on Tuesday August 12, 2025 at noon mailchi.mp/affcny/special-ev…
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My wife is a therapist and part of her job is working with child victims of crimes. The biggest red flag that a child is going to die from abuse is them being pulled from public school and beginning “homeschooling” mid year.
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I used to think homeschooling was fine. I now think it should be illegal with zero exceptions, and that faith-based homeschoolers need weekly visits from CPS. Isolating your kids from the daily oversight of mandated reporters should be a red flag in the child welfare system.
Overheard Asia helping Clemmie bathe: “You don’t clean your booty you don’t get no boyfriend.”
I screamed ASIA! so fast 😂
M so disappointed in @SenGillibrand on @BrianLehrer show right now as she piles on the Islamophobia and fear mongering toward @ZohranKMamdani. Good on you Brian for pushing back on the inaccuracies.
Clem’s just expressing it all:
“Why I no have boyfriend? When I have one? Why you not choose one for me yet? Where I get him? I can’t choose him myself!”
Little does she know, I have it all planned out. 😂
Clem:
“I no dance class long time. [I can sign you up for dance again]. How I dance good? How I change my body {so} I dance good? You see this boy dance good? You have medicine I dance good?”
If only there was a rhythm pill….
It’s 8:18pm and @ZohranKMamdani canvassers came to my apartment to make sure I voted. It’s there 5th time here. I’m hopeful he wins but my GenX cynicism almost had me voting against him bc I hate solicitors.
Just had a weird call w/ a higher up @NYCSchools person & I hung up feeling like I had just spoken to ACS. I looked her up- sure enough, she worked at the girls’ foster agency during the early years.
I swear the NYC systemic gaslighting is an infectious, generational disease.
5th grade graduation. Clementine did it! She walked on a stage without bursting into tears for the first time ever. ❤️❤️
There’s a whole new generation of women who will have no idea what it’s like to ask for their medical labs only to be stonewalled & patronized. “Why, I told you your labs are all good.”, “We can only fax them to another doctor’s office.” “Your results are abnormal, make an appt.”
Clem asked me to watch E.T. w/ her but what she’s really asking is that I sit next to her and answer her 3,000 questions. “Why boy wear tights? E.T. doesn’t eat junk food?! How him hide so good? Why him not look in garage? Where him shoes? How him magic?”
Why wasn’t an Amber Alert issued?
Montrell Williams' family plans to take legal action against NYPD. Here's what they claim. - CBS New York cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mis…
