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Eco-Friendly Mother’s Day | Sustainable Gifts and Ideas
It’s nearly that time of year again where we can show our beautiful Mother’s how much we love, care and appreciate them. However, due to covid-19, this Mother’s Day may be a little different to previous Mother’s Days. If we can’t share the day with them, we can still bring a smile to their face, in a way Mother Earth would approve and appreciate.
By Jamie-Lee Kay6 years ago in Families
A Mother's Love
I think it goes without saying that most of us have a woman close to us that we look up to, for me, that's my mother. I know that sounds like a typical answer but I did not live a typical life, and without my mother's love and commitment to me, I might not have been alive right now.
By Vala Rogers6 years ago in Families
My Superwoman
Not all foster kids get properly treated when being placed in homes. Many kids don’t ever get the love a parent should give a child. Often times foster kids don’t get to experience what it feels like to be comfortable. At any time, you can end up being somewhere new in a house full of strangers all over again. All the fears I had while being a foster child kept disappearing the older, I became. If every child in the system could receive the love and happiness my mom gave me, I know this world would be a better place.
By Ronisha Garcia6 years ago in Families
My Mixed Daughter and Battling Prejudice in the South
I live in the Mississippi, a Southern state. I moved here just about two years ago and it was here I fell in love with my now husband. 5 months ago we had a beautiful baby girl who happens to be mixed. Unfortunately in the South, the color of her skin is the only clear thing about her to most people.
By Madeline Keys6 years ago in Families
How My Daughter Was Legally Kidnapped
She is 4 years old and soon to be 5. My first born and maybe my only child, she was taken from my arms when she was only 5 months old. My first mothering experience stolen from me. Her paternal grandmother had taken her. With fabricated evidence she was able to legally kidnap her. She came to my father’s home with the sheriff, a paper in hand stating that she was unsafe and needed to be removed from me. Devastated but calm, I gathered my daughter’s belongings, buckled her into her car seat, and carried her down the stairs to her grandmother’s vehicle. The grandmother went to strip her from my arms, in which I calmly asked her if I could buckle her in car and say goodbye. She allowed it.
By Chelsea Bishop6 years ago in Families
Virtue y Fortuna
I’ve always been quiet. I have always thought to think before I speak. I think it’s served me well actually, and you were a quiet baby too, like I was. And now you’re often told to have a voice. You’re told this so much by so many people that you can barely get a word in edge ways. And I want you to know that having a voice doesn’t mean you have to say something brave or tell the entire world. You don’t have to speak words. Simply choose. Make a choice and be true to how you feel. that’s your voice, and it is shockingly and rightfully valid. I want you to know that when you choose to use it, the right person will hear you.
By Cassie Lilly6 years ago in Families
The importance of Art Workshops in a Summer Camp
Summer camps are an excellent way for your kids to spend part of their time off. Your children can forge new friendships, develop new interests, and become more independent. While conventional summer camps with outdoor trips, wilderness tours, and sleepover camps are a great option for younger kids, they are often not suitable. If you are looking for a good elementary summer program, how about enrolling your child in an art workshop? Here’s why we think art workshops are the best way to foster creative thinking in children:
By Andrew Hall6 years ago in Families
Recognition
When I was growing up, I was ignored by my parents almost every day. You see my mother always had friends she would talk to on the phone and when I asked her something she would send me away to go do something. I would feel sad after and probably go cry or just go play with my toys. She would scream at me saying “I’m on the phone Seyi come back later!” Her friends laugh at me on the phone or complain that she should discipline me more, I felt pretty embarrassed hearing her friends tell my mom that, since the thing I wanted to tell her wasn’t that important. In my life, I have not been given that much recognition, especially in schooling environments.
By Chris Adams6 years ago in Families
When I Was Eighteen, My Mother Had Her Uterus Removed
My father always wanted the traditionally big Catholic family, but originally my mother never wanted any children. They compromised and agreed to have one child. After about ten months, my parents learned they were pregnant. They lived in Missouri at the time, and my mother planned to have an all-natural water birth, but those plans changed very quickly. My father was in the U.S. Army and received orders to report to a base in California. My mother was almost eight and half weeks pregnant and had to find a new doctor within weeks of giving birth. The doctor on base was already booked and my mother spent the last weeks of her pregnancy looking for any doctor who would be willing to take a patient as far into her pregnancy as she was. Eventually, she found a doctor and my brother was born safely in a hospital after five hours of labor. Upon holding my brother in her arms, my mother knew she wanted another child. She loved being a mother.
By Jordyn Kapustka6 years ago in Families
