The Progressive Parent

I will *never* tell my kids, "Well, they're still family..." Blood is not a hall pass for harmful, toxic, or abusive behavior. Access to us is earned. Anyone who harms- or voted for someone whose policies cause harm to- me or mine can fck directly off, disrespectfully. #Boundaries #Parenting

Why does washing and drying the laundry take a few minutes of effort each, but putting it away takes 48296 business days? 👚👖🧦🧺 #ADHD #ADHDTax #AuDHDTax

Wake up, babe, new depression just dropped. 🥱😔 #Depression #CircadianDepression

Exhausted in every way possible with no choice but to keep going. It is *rough* out here. 😔 #FuckCapitalism #Capitalism #LateStageCapitalism #Vote

And normalize cutting off friends and family that vote to take away fundamental human rights from marginalized communities.

Sorry, I can't move. I don't make the rules. 🤷🏼‍♀️ This is Shadow, who is 8wks and still suuuper tiny. She has a cleft palate and lost her front bottom tooth, so we have to give her wet food and wipe her face when she's done, but she is the sweetest snuggler ever. And has blue eyes! 😻 #Caturday

Capitalism, patriarchy, and perimenopause, oh my! 😅🥴 I'm going as a surprise bill for Halloween- the scariest thing for so many folks who are just one crisis away from being homeless. #Halloween #Capitalism #Patriarchy #Perimenopause #PovertyTax #Burnout

October 15th is the International Wave of Light, recognizing littles who should be here, and the parents who ache indescribably without them. As a loss mom, I especially want to hold up all the parents in Palestine whom have lost their children in devastating ways. They should all be here. ❤️‍🩹

In today's edition of crossovers absolutely no one asked for: Me to sis: What Indigenous shows can I put on for the kids? Pocahontas is NOT it. Mr 6: I WANT TO WATCH POKÉMONTAS! Annnnd thanks for that visual. 😂

And yet somehow, the harmless group is losing Title X anti-discrimination protections, while ones that are glaringly abusive are surrounded by people who rally to protect them, despite the very fucking obvious harm they do. #Cornell57 #IAmJaneDoe #MeToo

The conversation needs to shift from telling women (how) not to get råped to telling boys about consent, men not to fucking råpe, AND OTHER MEN TO SPEAK OUT TO OTHER MEN when they hear or see something from fellow men that seems predatory. #IAmJaneDoe #Cornell57 #MeToo #BelieveWomen #Consent

I was 10-12, 18, 33, and more. I was raised in a James Dobson household + being (a late diagnosed, but lifelong) Autistic, both of which were programmed to accept shoving what feels Not The Fuck Okay to us aside for being accommodating, and that's another intersecting issue. #IAmJaneDoe #MeToo

Stop telling girls and women to act certain ways in order to not be assaulted, and start raising boys that will grow to be men that never think of assault as an option. #MeToo #IAmJaneDoe

The fact that California *just* banned child marriage is wild af, but at least we did it- after damn NINE YEARS trying. If that and the fact that it's still legal in THIRTY TWO FUCKING STATES doesn't tell you how many pedos are in office, I don't know what will. #ProtectChildren #EndChildMarriage

I don't believe in hell (except the one he literally created, and ones like it) but I'll give a special pass for him.

Ed Sheeran is exactly the type of white moderate MLK said was The Problem. #FreePalestine #MLK #WhiteModerate #DirectAction #ParadoxOfTolerance

My sister and I will be in Berkeley, Ca this weekend- where should we do lunch and dinner? What should we see? (Aside from @toriamos.bsky.social at the Greek, which is the Main Event and I am SO excited!)

A dog wrote this. 🤨🐈

You ever wake up and almost cry in relief that you do, in fact, still have teeth in your mouth? 🦷😅😭 Gawds, I hate those dreams.

This is absolutely diabolical, unnecessary, and cruel. 🤬 FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUCCCCKKK ICE. I don't think I have never hated a group of people more in my life. #FuckICE

Be the Ms. Rachel you want to see in the world. 🎀💪❤️‍🩹

This is true of any care relationship- friendship, parenting, romantic, and beyond. 💚

What parenting rule idea that you held before parenting did you find yourself turning a 180 about? 😅↩️ #Parenting #ProgressiveParenting #ConsciousParenting #BreakingCycles #CycleBreaker

MySpace is coming back?! ♥ ♥ ♥

Is growing up undiagnosed neurodivergent synonymous with feeling like you're always doing something wrong just by existing? I feel like this can't be just me. #LateDiagnosis #AuDHD #Neurodivergent

How tf are they screening *mice* for Autism? 👀🐁🌈♾️

Asking Autistics: What did someone try and insult/punish you for that you didn't/don't understand the reasoning behind? #AskingAutistics #Autistic #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

Hitting is abuse, full stop. It also teaches that physical and emotional pain is an intrinsic part of love. How are you gonna teach impulse control while displaying none? If you aren't a safe place who/where will be? The kid isn't respecting you, they're surviving you. Stop hitting children.

Women: How old were you the first time that you experienced SA, & what were you taught about autonomy growing up? I was raised Lutheran: I had to wear itchy church clothes & provide physical affection when asked. The abuse started at 9 & continued for years. All my kids know the meaning of "No."

Reminder that the singular "they" has been in use for over 600 years. It isn't "woke", it's plain English. 💁🏼‍♀️

Happy Non-binary Person's Day! 💛🤍💜🖤 Reminder that non-binary people can present any way they want to. They don't owe us androgyny, or to present in the same way they did the day before. You are not owed your (extremely shallow) concept of gender presentation. Respect pronouns and let people live.

I would like to call an important reminder for an annual celebration today of something that has nourished & sustained people everywhere without discrimination of race, religion, or orientation of any kind- invented by an Italian immigrant in Tijuana, Mexico. Happy 102th birthday to Caesar salad! 🥗

Rabbit, rabbit. 🐰🐇

I can't look at images of Venezuela after yesterday's 5.6 earthquake. 🙈 I love living in Northern California in a million ways, (🌉🏳️‍🌈✊🏼🌊🏞🌄🌲🌳) but that part scares the shit out of me. 😬 #Earthquake #NorCal #MendocinoCounty

Gender is a spectrum, so is being bi, autistic, and so many other things. Trying to police how people view, present, and express themselves is beyond self-righteous, it's diabolical- and it has a body count. Life is not binary, stop trying to force the people just trying to live it to be. 🏳️‍🌈♾️🌈✨️

We live in a country where some of the best journalists are late night comedians & editorial cartoonists. THANK YOU Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Tomorrow, Mike Luckovich & Michael de Adder ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! #LAUGH_DO_NOT_DESPAIR ✊

Breaking News: Electric Mayhem pulls out of Trump's "Freedom 250" concert series

Trump' name must be removed from the Kennedy Center and we love that for him. 🥰 #Resist #Impeach #KennedyCenter

And now the White House literally looks like one. 🎪🤡🐘 #Distractions #Resist #FuckICE

If Trump self-proclaiming he's the "President of Peace" while having attacked or threatened 1 out of 13 countries in existence & detaining over 6k children (inflicting lifelong trauma) doesn't show how glaringly delulu & dangerous he and his followers are, nothing will. #Resist #FuckTrump #FuckICE

Now RFK is trying to link *circumcision* with Autism bc of the Tylenol after? I'm ALL for leaving kids intact- routine cosmetic procedures on baby genitals is barbaric and a huge violation of autonomy- but it doesn't cause Autism, genetics do. That brain worm is whispering some weird shit, man.

Oh we're just turning the White House into an *actual* circus now, okay... 🎪🤡🐘

The Venn Diagram of Trumps and Epstein-affiliated people is a circle. ⭕️ Just release the damn files and get it over with, everything is clear as day to anyone with eyes and two functioning brain cells. #ReleaseTheFiles #EpsteinFiles #DonJr #BettinaAnderson #TrumpsterFire #PresidentPedo

A *DOG* shot a woman in Nebraska. 😳🐕🔫 Can we get some gun control now? How many more gun injuries or deaths will it take for reform? #GunControl #GunReform #YetAnotherShooting #Murica

It wasn't Jesus and the 12 Punishers. 💁🏼‍♀️ #SpareTheRod #Discipline #Parenting #ConsciousParenting #CycleBreaker #ChildPsychology

It's our job as parents to make our children grow up with more kindness, respect, bodily autonomy, (as well as diagnosis and accommodations for us ND folk!) acceptance, inclusiveness, and less trauma than we had, but it's not their job to appreciate that we struggled more. #Parenting #CycleBreaker

You can't call yourself pro-life if you don't vote to support lives of people who already exist. 💁🏼‍♀️ That's pro-controlling uterus-havers and pro-birth. Voting for someone to exist & then not providing them support in order to do so at every age that follows being born is diabolically hypocritical.

Trump announcing his own private, cash-only "TrumpRx" website with only expensive, brand-name options that excludes use by Medi-Cal and Medicaid clients (and not just by price, we're literally blocked) instead of providing Universal Healthcare is top tier villany. People over (pedos and) profits.

Anyhow, what's for lunch?

I wish there was a phone setting to block phone calls until the caller sends a message, stating why it needs to be a phone call- and then makes them realize it absofuckinlutely does not. 📵 #NoPhoneCalls #ThisCouldHaveBeenAnEmail #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #Autism #NoSuddenChanges