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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
Unique Creations: Supporting Families in a Time of Darkness
Childcare services are one of the most important staples within communities. They provide foundations for children to gain necessary education and foster lasting relationships that help build character. Though COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on businesses, this childcare center continues to stay open to assist parents who are essential workers and aren’t able to take off during this time. Therefore, Unique Creations Childcare Center has been able to contribute to the needs of the community and address their concerns promptly. Beginning as an in-home center, Joy was able to start her business and assist children who were in need of a daycare center. With her certification only allowing 5 children at a time, she made it her goal in 2007 to expand and increase her influence on the children of the community. Within three years, she was able to purchase her own facility in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina! Since then, she has improved her certification from 5 to 30 kids, enhancing her reach and impact within the community.
By Makayla Hunter6 years ago in Families
Having my first child
The idea of being pregnant was something that always frightened me I would sometimes dream of finding myself suddenly large with child wondering suddenly large with children wondering how I could undo it without having to endure the unimaginable pain of child birth.
By Avril Jones6 years ago in Families
About adoption
Personally, I was always interested in adoption. Just to take it out of the way, it is not because I cannot have kids (at least I don't know yet) and also, WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH EVERYONE ASKING ME THIS? "Why don't you have your own kid?"- is the first question I am usually asked.
By Corina G. Prutean6 years ago in Families
A letter to my boy
From the day you were born, you were always a sweet child, a sensitive boy with a heart of gold. As I write this to you from the other side of the world, I gaze out my window with worry and the pain of not being there with you, and your brothers. An ocean apart while a global pandemic rages on...who would have thought that life would take us to this place in our lives.
By Lori Brizius6 years ago in Families
Love In Challenges
She was stoic, prideful, loving and had the strength of beef stock. My nana better known as Louise was a woman who persevered her way through life. An epitome of the sophisticated lady, wife mother, grandmother, sister church clerk and Bell Atlantic first black woman to be a telephone operator in the district of Queens, New York. She touched many lives and a leader in her own right. I always wondered about her story and what molded her into who she was. What were the layers that unveiled this beautiful spirit? Well she had a mix of old school, but she was a deep thinker but also strong in her faith. During her last stages of cancer is where her an I truly established a stronger bond as I was a young teen with a lot of challenges ahead of me that would transform my life for my highest good. I put my amour on to fight with her and assist her in anyway I could even though I had the least bit of tools to assist me for what was coming but I gained them on the way. She didn’t tell anyone she was sick because she was the strong one, she held down the fort when things got rough, she handled the business as they would say. I look back and ask who was strong for her who took care of her when she felt weak or even a little inadequate. I can hear her say it now “God”. She needed support, compassion, love and kindness more than ever.
By Johnetta Cuff6 years ago in Families
