Month: March 2013

March 27, 2013

It Is Time

March 27, 2013

In my experience, one of the most rewarding and magical things about parenting is the lessons I learn and the perspective I gain through a child’s eyes as we grow together.

The greatest challenge for me, as a parent, is instilling values and shaping beings that will one day positively contribute to society as it evolves… with those lessons in mind and their innocence maintained. Not to close a mind but to open a door to the future.

My children remind me daily that I haven’t seen life from every angle yet, and I should never give up on trying to ‘think’ it differently. Never stop trying to BE the difference. Make the change! Continue Reading

March 21, 2013

Shades of Love

March 21, 2013

Today, Finnley had a revelation about how he sees color.

Finnley – “Mommy, skin really only comes in three same colors. Light-light brown, brown and dark brown… but it’s all just brown. Shirts come in lots of colors, though!”

It’s unbelievable how enlightening a five-year-old’s perspective on the real difference between races can be. It’s the shirt colors.

674px-Hands4_OverlayingGrowing up in a small, river valley village, where tradition was as stuck as the mud to the old rusted pickup trucks that roll along the back country roads, racism was still an unfortunate ignorant perspective passed down through generations, as if the world stopped turning half a century ago. Continue Reading