What began as an ordinary day became a medical nightmare almost instantly for the family of toddler Dusty Wildman.
The Australian boy was critically injured...
"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
He would eagerly run over to take my hand when it was time to move on to a new part of the aquarium, and he soon began wrapping my arm around his neck and forcing me to pull him closer... Soon he also told me, "I love you." "I love you, too, Jason." I said.
With teen suicide on the rise, this Corona Del Mar principal letter broadcasts a serious message to parents about how WE are hurting our own children -- and how to stop it.
And with an eye-roll, my daughter turned away... She can roll her eyes in a complete circle like a hamster wheel. “You’re in trouble,” I have heard from bystanders, friends, and family. “I am in trouble,” I, myself, have even said on multiple occasions.
We’re raising children in a society where the kids who work hard, study, and do “the right thing” can be pushed out of a spot they earned by someone who’s better at lining pockets. We have to raise children in a world where we want to tell them to keep their nose clean, hit the books, and do well. That it will pay off. Except, we live in a world where that’s not always true.
“I held her as the heat slowly left her body and her skin became cold to the touch. How could she have died from a disease that I know thousands of people manage? I beg you to ask your child's doctor to test for it.”
