But the biggest success has been helping to convince people that there are no quick fixes for improving education. Teacher quality and equitable and adequate resources are the first steps. Sometimes, the words children speak to each other have the most impact. Some people think adoption is when your birth mom just dumps you on the street and someone comes to pick you up. But that's not true.
Some kids think divorce is their fault.
But it's not. On Father's Day, I just sit around and do nothing, because there's really nothing to do because I don't have a dad. Well, of course I have a dad, just not with me. When I was five years old, my mom started doing drugs. She got sleepy and stressed and didn't want to cook dinner.