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Teeter Totter ~ Finding a Balance Between Me-Hood and Motherhood
Gender: female Date of Birth: January 01, 1973 Member Since: September 11, 2007 Last Signed In: November 20, 2009 Blog Views: 14722 Send To A Friend Sign Guestbook Add as a Friend
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Don’t you love it when you look back on your own childhood, then compare some event, development or happening in your own child’s life and think “WOW! Now THAT’S Progress!” (without any hint of sarcasm.) After dropping man cub off this morning for his first day of 10th grade, I was taking a little stroll down memory lane and I had one of those “WOW” moments. I was thinking back to my own childhood and how I always stood up for, and befriended the “underdog.” In my day that person would have had an accent, disability, been ethnic, or perhaps even just not as wealthy as some of the other kids. I would stand up for them against anything, befriend them and just treat them like a person. I had patience. It occurred to me that everywhere we go; people are patient with my son. He can be very hard to understand most times due to his stutter, add the fact that he rarely (if ever) looks you in the eye when talking to you and that makes for someone very hard to communicate with. People wait for him to finish what he’s saying… always, even if he’s just ordering at a restaurant. The waiter/waitress will lean in so as to hear him better, clarify when he’s done (if they didn’t understand something) and just be patient. Even the children at school all these years have overall been really wonderful. Partly I credit the town we live in and their focus on diversity and inclusion. Partly I think people are just more educated and sensitive than they were when we were children. Smaller kids will always ask questions, “Why does he talk like that?!” But after a brief explanation of, “Everyone’s different! Some people are in wheelchairs, or have blue eyes, or cannot see. Others talk different.” They usual just accept it with an “Oh!” and move on. To me, that is something really wonderful. Now if I can just teach him to be more patient with other people! Hah. 2 comments from 2 users
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Rinkus68
on Aug 26, 2009 at 09:15 PM
LOL.. no kidding - he someday will be the one that says something like - mom - look at the funny looking guy! - NO - I'm sure he would never do that - but I'm sure you get the joke (seeing how I believe we both have that very strange sense of dry humor!....) Isn't it nice to live in a world - were even though we still have a long way to go - we've come so very very far. My daughter is mixed race - and I remember when my ex-husband and I got married - that was my mothers only concern - "What about your children?"... The funny thing is - she's getting ready to go into 6th grade and she still hasn't had any issues. How awesome is that? If she gets into a tiff at school - it has to do with just kids being kids - but there are so many "different' kids at her school - they just all treat each other the same - good or bad - they don't see what us as adults see - they just honestly will like someone or not like someone for WHO they are - not what they look like. How wonderful. You are truly blessed with such a wonderful son - and I'm sure the people around him see that. It's very nice that we've come so far! Good for us, you AND Mancub!
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creatress
on Aug 27, 2009 at 09:17 AM
Thanks so much for the "cheers!" I agree with you. Good for us! I'm thrilled that people don't think twice about her being "mixed race" and that she's never had run-in's with any ignorant people. YAY! I do think we're improving as a culture in this department. 6th grade was a great year for us. I hope it's the same for you. 10th grade is rocking so far! He's loving his new school and teachers. He even got up ON HIS OWN this morning. WOW!
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