Eco-friendly potty training
To avoid using diapers, eco-friendly New York City parents are training babies to poop and pee while they hold them over bowls and toilets. “Elimination communication” requires parents to study weeks-old babies’ cues when they’re about to go, and train them to go on command with a verbal sound such as “ssss.” Not only are diapers saved, one parent said, Mom and Dad are “more in tune with what their kids’ needs are.”
Teacher uses her own racism to disputes charges
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A Texas teacher invoked her own racism to dispute allegations that she fondled a black student. Teacher Irene Esther Stokes, who is white, denied the first-grader’s accusation that she touched her private parts by claiming that she doesn’t even like “touching black students on the hand.” Stokes was fired.
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