Sandhya Jain-Patel

“On a bad day you also don’t need a lot of advice. You just need a little empathy and affirmation. You need to feel once again that other people have confidence in you. The”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“you don’t raise your voice? When kids are scared, they go into fight-or-flight. The learning centers of the brain shut down. Your child can’t learn when you yell. It’s always more effective to intervene calmly and compassionately. Besides, when you yell, you lose credibility with your child. Kids become less open to your influence.”
― Laura Markham, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

“Since parents are the role model, you’ll hear your child speak to his sister or brother using your words and tone of voice. Children”
― Laura Markham, Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life

“Hollywood, an industry that shapes not only our national but global memories, has been the most reactionary cultural perpetrator of white nostalgia, stuck in a time loop and refusing to acknowledge that America’s racial demographic has radically changed since 1965. Movies are cast as if the country were still “protected” by a white supremacist law that guarantees that the only Americans seen are carefully curated European descendants.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning