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if you’re lgbtq and aren’t posting about this please please don’t feel guilty, if you need to reblog pretty pictures and talk with your friends and take some time that does not make you a bad person, you do not have to broadcast your grief if you don’t want to, look after yourselves xx
1. Make sure your kids see YOU reading (and enjoying it). There’s no point expecting them to do something you don’t do yourself.
2. Read to your children regularly. Make it part of their bedtime routine. Reading together helps parents bond with their children, and later, it gives them a chance to discuss all kinds of problems and ideas.
3. Don’t be a teacher when you’re reading to your kids. Be an entertainer instead. Go ape on the funny voices. Make it fun for both of you.
4. Don’t be judgemental or preachy. Choose books that deal with topics that will really engage your child.
5. Don’t approach your child’s reading as you would their education. Reading isn’t about setting targets, or impressing your friends with your child’s reading age.
6. Read the first half of a story aloud, then allow yourself to be “interrupted”. Leave the book lying around. Ten to one they’ll pick it up…
7. Whatever your child chooses to read, support it. That goes for comics, fairy books, romance or fart jokes.
8. Don’t put your child under pressure. Reading should be a reward, never a punishment.
9. Don’t stop your child from re-reading books, or having you re-read them. It’s an important comfort mechanism.
10. Age banding is irrelevant. Gender is irrelevant. Reading age is irrelevant. Is your kid reading? Then they’re OK.
Lastly, NEVER take a book from your child. Whether it’s a “girl book”, a “boy book”, a silly book or MEIN KAMPF. Don’t be afraid they’ll be influenced in a negative way. Where children read widely, they’re very unlikely to be influenced by any single set of ideas. Instead, they’ll learn to question ideas, and more importantly, to think for themselves…
I want to take a moment to send my love and solidarity to LGBT Muslims in light of what’s going on. I know the pressure on you is already so high. Your faith is not to blame for this, you are not to blame for this. You’re allowed to mourn, too.
An Orlando police chief has confirmed that a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, left at least 20 dead and 42 wounded, according to the Associated Press. This is a developing story.
Update: The nightclub shooter, who “took hostages”, reportedly died in a “gunbattle with SWAT officers.” According to the AP, an FBI spokesman says the Pulse “mass shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism.” Pulse responded in the moment last night with a heartbreaking and terrifying Facebook post.
Update: “I was thinking, are you kidding me? So I just dropped down. I just said please, please, please, I want to make it out,” said Christopher Hansen, a Pulse patron who told the AP he was in the nightclub’s VIP lounge when the shooting started, “And when I did, I saw people shot. I saw blood. You hope and pray you don’t get shot.”
Pulse describes itself as “Orlando’s hottest gay bar” on its website. The shooting took place during “Upscale Latin Saturday”, which Pulse celebrates weekly on Saturday nights. According to The Daily Beast, club owner Barbara Poma’s decision to open Pulse was spurred by a family tragedy.This is a developing story.
Update: Law enforcement sources told CBS News they have identified the suspect as Omar Mateen, a U.S. citizen from Port St. Lucie, Florida, who was born to Afghan parents in 1986.
The L.A. Times’ Matt Pearce confirmed authorities had given the name to the paper’s D.C. bureau as well.
Orlando Police Chief John Mina has confirmed that a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, left at least 50 dead and 53 wounded, according to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.
