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AUGUST

Family Action Toolkit

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Hey friends!

This August, we help our kids to navigate fear and uncertainty in the face of change.

Validating kids’ big feelings through life changes. Standing in solidarity with them through confusion. Modeling resilience as we tackle the next big transition together.

Between the end of summer, going back to school, maturing bodies, and changing friendships – our kids need to feel connected as they navigate big transitions.

These kiddos are leading the next revolution. They need practice now to envision and orchestrate the good trouble to come.

Show your kids how their experiences fit into the fabric of history, and how we use their big feelings to connect with each other.

For each topic below, start with stories to introduce the challenges we’re facing together. Discuss and reflect, and then take small actions to help kids reclaim their agency in the chaos of change.

With you,

Ashia R.

August Explorations

August Calendar

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National Bao Day

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Slavery Abolition & Remembrance

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Ganesh Chaturthi

Shifts between August and September according to the lunar calendar.

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Protest Against ABA

Raising awareness against harm and abuse caused by Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) & conversion therapy

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Overdose Awareness & Harm Reduction

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Month of Ramadan & Eid al-Fitr

Dates shift about 10 days earlier each year according to the lunar Hijri calendar. The Month of Ramadan starts in August in 2043-2045. Eid al-Fitr occurs at the end of Ramadan observances this month in the years 2044-2046.

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Banned Books Week

Annually during the last week of September or first week of October.

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Donors Choose gives your family an opportunity to support local students targeted by economic and racial inequality.

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Post Author: Ashia (they/them)

Ashia Ray is the founder of Raising Luminaries.

I’m Autistic, multiracial (Chinese/Irish) 2nd-generation settler raising two children alongside my partner on the homelands of the Wampanoag and Massachusett people. I support families and educators in raising the next generation of kind & courageous leaders, so we can all smash the kyriarchy together.

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