Tag: Parenting
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Keep these meltdowns!
When I look back to that day, look back to the first day, the bright side day, always, I see the day isn’t waiting. It is long gone. Nothing about the first day remains. Except it’s music or sound. Not its rain or storm. Except the gratitude that follows. Such is the story of meltdowns that…
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Keep smiling!
These days we are encountering the beauty of life, smiling as we sit and dream, uncovering the wonder within, letting our souls wander too, as we let our sons of color, like sun and its color, light up the dark. If there is ever a moment to love humans, as tricky and mean as we…
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Keep still knowing the source of your scars!
My left pinky finger hides a scar the size of a grain of rice. I barely remember it exists. Sometimes it’s better to never remember pain, to always accept being invisible even when your mark is clearly visible. Between all the lines and groves in my hand, this scars stays hidden on the sides of…
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Keep all that remains!
We are thinking about resilience, thinking about what remains and what ends, thinking too about who stands and who gets to thrive, not just trees or flowers or the things we plant with our bare hands, but us, our children, our most vital source of all the ways we bloom, long after we are gone.…
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Keep the many phases of motherhood!
All a mother needs for strength these days are in the eyes of those she birthed. For her, nothing remains the same and opening up is like Spring season, a moment when words start to speak on their own whether silently or loud. For her, the sun never goes down. The moon is like a…
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Keep words like robins on top of branches!
There are days when you don’t know what you are doing. Three notes are written. One remains and begins like this. We need to focus, gain clarity and sweet understanding for all the things masking the guilt that follows. We write hiding from a little boy that calls our name. We stare out a window…
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Keep knowing this is life is for spinning again!
The sounds I hear this evening are of the footsteps of little boys, thuds from books dropping, clanging of tall beige blinds, opening or closing of doors, pages of books too, little boys reading out loud, on bears, about bears, that we question what we are doing here. There are cups clanging, plates too, little…
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Keep Olisadubem or God being your guide always!
We call him Olisa. His full name if you ask is Olisadubem. But everyone calls him Olisa. The idea of naming our child after God is a treasure we will forever keep. He is as God is. Full of himself, as his ways are not ours. Still we know and see God in him, pray…
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Keep sleeping in peace until we meet again!
They say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. With your family, you took the greatest step and we will forever be thankful that you were our first love. Continue to sleep well Papa until we meet again. Ps. These times of uneasiness are when you lean in to all…
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Keep this peace!
At a time like this, peace embraced me kindly, this was as my kid cried about nightmares and another fiddled with the headrest, another slept gently by that the pain that once dulled my head gave room to the soft feeling of peace nurtured by the one we gift back always.
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Keep reflecting!
With my people, in the pure light of day, or following snowstorm, you see, we shine…We are like lamp. All we see is reflected.
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Keep these moments!
We tried to lose ourselves in the moment. With kids crying and all. One wanted juice. The purple juice reserved for those who often visit. The other wanted a phone, whether new or old it didn’t matter. Yet a third wanted ice-cream, vanilla, chocolate, anything will do. The time was exactly 6pm and my fourth…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 