The MLK Lesson I Didn’t Learn in School (and What I’m Teaching My Kids Instead)
Guest post by Makensie Mauney-McDaniel, MS, LMHCA, NCC When you don’t have many Black family members, it can feel like the responsibility to make sure your children grow up in a diverse and truthful world falls almost completely on you and your husband. That pressure is real, because being around different […]
The Weight of Raising Black Joy: Guest Post from Makensie Mauney-McDaniel, MS, LMHCA, NCC
The hardest part of parenting is trying to give my sons a better life. This is especially true because I am aware of the mental health toll that growing up Black, even as a biracial person in a predominantly white area, took on me. Now, raising fully Black sons with two […]
