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How Allowing Our Kids to Express Themselves Can Improve Their Mental Wellness as Adults

“Stay out of grown folks’ business”

“Speak when spoken to”

“You’re too young to have an opinion”

I am sure that many of you have either heard these words when you were a kid or have spoken them to your own children. Oftentimes in the Black community we don’t allow our children to have opinions or to

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