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Some context:
Rachel Anne Accurso (née Griffin; born November 30, 1982), better known as Ms. Rachel, is an American YouTuber, social media personality, singer, songwriter, and educator. She is best known for creating the YouTube series Songs for Littles, a children's music series focused on language development for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Mad respect for her standing up and fighting for what's right. Bravery is a rare trait in America these days.
Ms. Rachel is today's Mr. Rogers. My baby is singing and counting and learning letters and mom and I are absolutely blindsided each time she does something new.
Ms Rachel was a music teacher for a preschool and started her channel to help her speech delayed child. She's engages and includes, using language like "grown ups" instead of "mom" or "dad". She has a member who does sign language and also a non-binary member who is her long time friend. My niece was enamored by their inclusion when I know that her side of the family is less receptive to differences.
Ms Rachel has fund raised for the children of Gaza and is harassed and boycotted by the right for doing so. I've learned a lot from Ms Rachel as a new parent and she's a treasure.
I think my favorite fun fact about her is she is actually educated with a master's. Her stuff is fairly well informed, especially in comparison to videos from other well known creators who barely have educational content (or the trippy AI made stuff that keeps getting into the suggestions).
As a stay-at-home-parent to a young toddler, Ms. Rachel is the only reason I can shower or use the restroom some days. She is a treasure. Her content is great and my baby LOVES when we sing the songs with her. One of the absolute GOAT.
Usually you post more about the children being genocided than you do about the ones whose parents are doing the genocide. Like Israeli children aren't in fucken danger. This is more than infuriating
Basically the “All lives matter” of killing kids.