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Mom shares heartfelt message about her daughter who wanted to be a boy. PLEASE READ AND RETWEET: "This is my middle daughter Hope at 3 and 18. When she was about 2.5 yrs old, she told me she wanted to be a boy. This continued in different forms until she was 12-13. She asked me once: “When am I going to grow a winkie?” (Side note: she had an older sister and brother and had seen it all as I often bathed them together!). I explained that she wouldn’t because she was a girl. She told me she wanted to tee-tee standing up, so I explained how that wouldn’t work for her. Unfazed, she decided to try it! It didn’t work, and life went on. She was all tomboy! She played sports and was hyper-competitive. Almost all of her friends until 7th grade were boys. She only wore boys underwear! She had to wear a dress on Sundays as we attended church and that was our rule but she often walked into her class, yanked her dress up and announced, “I’m still wearing my boy underwear.” I never argued with her about her clothes. I remember her coming home in 1st grade and asking me what a “lesvian” was because some boys had called her that on the bus. I explained it was when a girl loved another girl. She said, “Oh!” That was it! She was 6 and didn’t need a discussion on sex at that point. We often talked about her being able to do anything a boy could do, and she could still be a girl. She was a 3 sport athlete, 3 sport captain, All-state volleyball player, and jr college (scholarship) basketball player. However, she was still a girl and a freaking awesome one! When she was 12-13, she asked for girl panties but still only wore athletic clothes. She’s as beautiful today at 23 as she is athletic. She loves to snowboard, hike and still loves sports. We allowed her to work out who she was with perimeters that allowed her to be successful. She’s engaged to a great guy whom she will marry August 19. I would have NEVER medicated her, surgically changed her, hormonally altered her or done ONE thing differently than what we did. I don’t care what the world, social media, trans activists push: these are KIDS! To do anything that could change them before their brains are fully developed is ridiculous and honestly, abusive! Guide them, talk to them, advocate for them, accept them but for the love of all that is right, do not CHANGE them. I just read a heartbreaking story about a person who physically transitioned as a young adult who is now 17 years away from that and says it was their BIGGEST mistake. Hope has often said how different her life would be for her and us if she was growing up today because the pressure to transition her would be so great. I can assure you that would have had zero affect on us. PARENTS: please don’t get swept up in this madness. Be the voice of reason your child needs. PLEASE!! *This has been made public! Feel free to share! Amber Monk Parker" FOLLOW ME FOR MORE @TaraBull808

@josephagunbiade Grants can be very distracting, most times you have to change your business priorities to those of the grant giver.

I tell my friends that as good as grants may seem, at the early stages of a business, it might impact whether you get a Product-Market Fit or not. You will now find yourself always chasing grants instead of proper execution.

@ShoutsAndMiras I am also wondering is it a Nigerian thing, like the way Nigerians say "I am coming" walking in the opposite direction, or consumers are indecisive globally

@ronkeeko What they say and what they do are comically different, also... 🤥

Getting feedback from a consumer focus group and can I just say I HATE CONSUMERS 😤

@AffiSupaStar @afalli Gas powered is an option, you just need to be located near an IPP gas generator and be supplied by them, where u see a cluster of factories an IPP is likely close

@afalli Thanks, Andrew! Appreciate the info. I guess diesel-powered factory is my only option.

Apart from Dangote Cement, are coal-powered factories common in Nigeria? Would appreciate any links. Thanks

BREAKING Our analysis of the #2021Budget reveals over 316 duplicated capital projects totalling N39.5bn, among other loopholes for corruption. BudgIT also found ZERO audit records of the N10.02tn received by the security sector between 2015 & 2021. Our press statement: Thread!

Agriculture doesn't need to be made sexy. Agriculture needs to be made profitable.

@AdakuUfere She is soooo cute!!!!

First day back at work after parental leave. You can see my new co-worker here getting me together for taking pictures instead of working.

@ShoutsAndMiras *fab

@ShoutsAndMiras Happy birthday Mira!!!! Have a fan year!!!

Well, the wrinkles are inevitable I guess... happy birthday to me!

@kadopumpin @oukwuani @suleimana GBAM!!! Aptly said.

@oukwuani @suleimana I think the point he is making is not that manufacturing can do better that real estate. What I think he is saying is that corruption has bad second order effects..the misallocation of capital...which may be worse that the corrupt act itself in the long run.

I have been told we may have as many as 100,000 unoccupied high income homes in Nigeria. Each one consist of enough capital for a small processing or manufacturing plant. Idle capital that collectively could create 5m jobs. It is the sub-optimization of capital that kills.

@suleimana @jesseosiobe what we were discussing last week put in sophisticated terms.

@suleimana I found you on twitter recently and find your tweets very refreshing, especially for we that are staying put in Nigeria to fix it, please ignore trolls they are a product of the dysfunctional system.

Great Irony Theory; Quota systems & rotational presidency will ensure representation & unite the country. Reality; Quota system has enthroned nepotism & mediocrity and rotational presidency has divided the country. What would a smart people Do?

Venice has been sinking for centuries but Venice isn’t sunk. Egypt has been heating for decades but Cairo is still here. Europe has been dying for years but Europe isn’t dead. & yes, Nigeria has been stumbling forever BUT Nigeria is just starting. We are not going anywhere.

Same people doubling down on the investments in Nigeria are telling us Nigeria has failed./ I am not buying. We survived a civil war, we outlasted dictators, we have seen recessions. The bandits (in and out of power) will not be the end of us. #Not going anywhere..

The worst people to ‘offend’ on Twitter are those who have decided to leave, their own insults no get part two Even to suggest Nigeria is not a lost cause na crime O! Anyhow, we are here not because we no get special IV from Canada, but because we still BELIEVE. Oya, insult me

For the record, we are not fighting to salvage Nigeria for the benefit of those who, by their talent, their hard-work or some less honorable means, can find their way out. They are spoken for. We are fighting for those who can’t, and they are the majority. Good night

And of course the masses, what can they do? They are barely living from hand to mouth.. And so, like everywhere else, it falls on the conscientious middle, the dwindling middle, the struggling middle, the same middle that is barely breathing, it falls on them to do something.

It is true That our government has failed us Woefully But it is equally true That we are failing our country Now For it is our duty to fix our government, not our ancestors’ not our oppressors’ nor the ghosts’ of the unborn And we won’t move forward until we understand this

Sweet Jesus I’m a mess. 😭 Well worth 2 mins if you are a parent twitter.com/ItsDxvd/status…