Tag: children
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Keep trunk or treats!
Halloween started today. My kids and I went to a trunk and treat at their school this evening. Dad and baby came along too. We went from one truck to the next admiring the decorations and taking all the candy we could find. Kids were all mesmerized. I was just happy to watch them thrive,…
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Keep welcoming mama home!
Mama returned home today. About two months after the greatest heart-wrenching ordeal, the longest mutterings of sorrow, of hearts completely in despair. Our hearts are still broken, still shattered in pieces. But seeing the glimmer in her eyes, made it clear; we would get through this deepest darkness. And the darkness is so deep, still…
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Keep living beyond yourself for your children!
My children give me permission to dream as I watch black birds fly across cloudy skies. Permission to win as we celebrate my Belle dominating sports today. Permission to write about our favorite things like Andy’s frozen custard or our favorite place, Drace Park. Permission to laugh about silly things like would you kneel or…
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Keep swinging on swings
Since Fall refuses to start its cool, we took to the Park this sunny Sunday morning. Four children and I went for a walk at first. Then they ran to the playground, the bright yellow bars and obstacle courses. Then four children started swinging on swings. Just to be a child on swings is joy…
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Keep chasing butterflies!
My kids and I chased white butterflies this morning. We watched as they fluttered their wings and soared to new heights. We inched closer as the nestled on ivy-leaved morning glories. We sighed deeply as they gently kissed luscious green grass. We flicked our lens as they trampled through wild shrubs, until they found a…
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Keep soaring my Belle!
Earlier this week my little girl came home with a Prize: The Duchesne Award. As background, her principal wrote the following to dad and I in an email: ‘this student lives like St. Rose Philippine Duchesne by confidently living as a child of the Sacred Heart. Her faith shows in everything she does. She has…
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Keep freedom and imaginations for you!
My daughter wrote a haiku about birdhouses, about how birds get food from inside them, and of course how birds eat the food. It was nestled towards the end of her book of poetry where anything was allowed. Roller skates made in rainbow colors. Birds and their birdhouse. Puppies playing. Even her name and all…
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Keep being brave even when bullied!
Nearly one in 5 youth have experienced some form of bullying. As a parent, listening as your child describes their own experience with it can make you feel angry, helpless to, as you try to navigate school policies and zero tolerance statements that seem great on paper. Like most parents, my first instinct was to…
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Keep hand-drawn, crescent shaped, rainbow filled hearts!
My son came home from school with a hand drawn crescent shaped rainbow filled heart. He was so excited when I arrived to pick him up. Guess what, guess what I made in school today, he said. I learnt how to make a heart all by myself. He proceeded to show me the heart. It…
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Keep being terrific my child!
Few bear witness to power within Black girls. Even very few celebrate it too. Yet black girls who are celebrated today, will be celebrated tomorrow and always. Today, I celebrate my daughter. She shared papers she received from school today. One after the other, they showed how terrific she was, whether with geography or spelling…
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Keep blazing your light in words!
The kids were jumping on the trampoline. I was amazed by how far we have come. Baby was strolling gingerly towards them and away from them, in his yellow green shirt that read how he was a ‘little man with big plans.’ He truly was. Today’s plans, dirt and all sorts of ways to become…
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Keep coloring like a child!
My son has begun to leave traces of his drawings and coloring everywhere. He loves drawing these days because Mo Whilems taught him how to draw a pigeon trying to drive a bus. He also loves coloring because alpha blocks are zesty and full of colors. They taught him how to color within alphabet known…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 