Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens Eps 246: Bellamy Shoffner On Being a Single Mom and A Revolutionary Human
Oct 26, 2020
56:15
Bellamy Shoffner is a single parent, writer, and equity advocate specializing in fostering thoughtful connection and conversation among communities. Shoffner’s Revolutionary Humans produces a magazine, retreats, and free community events. All for parents and educators committed to social justice.
This past summer the Joyful Courage community raised $800 in support of Bellamy and her work – I am so honored for the chance to connect with her here on the podcast.
Takeaways from the show
- Social justice
- Passive reading vs. retaining the information
- Hold the Line magazine
- Teaching our kids to be accepting of each other's differences
- Creating a world where kids can are out of harm’s way based on any part of their identity
- Acceptance vs tolerance
- Challenges of being a single parent
- How outside help isn’t always appreciated
- Teasing apart tokenization
- Putting in the work to understand social justice
- Key things parents can do to fold racial awareness into parenting their kids
- Taking people as they are and see what happens
- Having relationship with vulnerability
- Dealing with people who have opposing views
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