“Sometimes as parents it’s hard to let go” 😢
“And I’ve always said to them ‘be the one that goes out and comes in, not the one that’s left standing on the corner”
Primary Socialisation vs Secondary Socialisation of Children #sociology
“We can AGREE to DISAGREE but there’s still a hierarchy and it should remain in place”… “There’s a baseline of respect”
Hierarchy in parent-children dynamics
“I tell my children I will always love you, I will not always like you”
Keeping it real within the parent-child dynamic
“I was always made to understand that I could be anything. Living on the 10th floor doesn’t define me!”
Josephine discussed her upbringing in a one parent household and how it shaped her experiences as a parent 🙏🏾
Hard Truths Episode 3 - Children vs Parents… Out Tomorrow 👀
UNPOPULAR OPINION?
“Where we could do more as men is actually speaking to women about holding each other accountable, and basically pushing themselves to do the things that they’re not doing that they could be doing but they’re kinda distracted with what we’re not doing”
Thoughts?
“so forgetting that trauma, I understand it’s important because if you keep on looking backwards, how you going to move forward?”
Thoughts?
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“Not everything has to be coming from the struggle. Not everyone’s story has to be I started from council estate, I managed to get out of the hood and make something of myself”
Black is not a monolith.
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“Tell a 14 year old to write a speech, whether it’s a boy or girl, first thing that comes up is knife crime or gang culture. It’s something to do with being black but in a negative light”
Thoughts?
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“When you start putting qualifiers on things, people feel like they have the right to now start contributing to the conversation”
Thoughts?
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“We can sometimes gate-keep blackness at times where if someone is behaving in a way that isn’t ‘stereotypically black’, sometimes the black community can outcast their own people”
Thoughts?
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