We are having a yard sale today. My dd saw a white woman carrying a little black(forgive me if that's not correct) baby. She also had another little black girl with her. In talking she found out they were foster children. She gave both of the little girls some of her most expensive(for a garage sale expensive anyway - electronic toys) toys. The woman and her husband said it was so sweet and gave her 5 dollars before they left. She told them they did not have to, but they insisted and told her it was for being so sweet. She did this at Christmas when she used all of her Birthday money to buy her Christmas presents instead of something for herself. She is truly becoming the person I would love for her to be! Kindness to people of any color and thinking of others.
That is so Awesome. It sounds like you are doing a great job raising your dd! What a humble spirit that showed.
I think that it is truly a gift that she is so 'thoughtful' and 'generous' those are awesome character traits that will be a blessing to others as they were shown to be today. Kudos to your DD!
That's so special! I love hearing when kids think of and help others just out of the kindness of their hearts! What a little blessing she is!
What a blessing that really is. Many people falsely believe that foster parents are given a great deal of money for the care of the children. In my area, the average monthly stipend for a child over 12 months old is just $100. And each child gets a yearly $100 clothing allowance (per child/per year: so if the child was in foster home A, then went home, then to foster home B all in the same year, the second foster family gets $0 for clothing). I guess what I'm saying is that many many foster parents struggle to keep the children fed and clothed. Toys can become a luxury. I'm so glad to hear that your wonderful DD recognized a need and was willing to fill it. And at such a young age. If she continues with her selfless attitude, she'll be a breeze as a teen.
Very sweet! Here just Sat. I had a man ask me if my dh was the father of my children. My dh is light to medium skinned black and my kids are all very light...to the point they look only white for the most part. Yep. People are still ignorant...glad to see there are children being raised properly. Oh...and don't think I was upset...I am quite used to it. I realized to an untrained eye my kids look completely different than my dh. In fact my youngest looks NOTHING like him at all! I just get sick of people thinking I must be remarried or had several oops babies from other men. LOL. Normally all the reponses..even the nosey ones are positive. The man just couldn't wrap his mind around the fact that I have two redheaded white looking girls with a black father. lol.
I am sure your babies are just beautiful! I wonder why people would even make a comment as it is none of their business! I/we have always raised our kids to look at what is inside and to never judge someone by what they look like or to describe someone by their skin color. One of my ds' friends were over and he was describing someone by their skin color for us to check out. I asked him why he didn't describe the person by what they were wearing rather than the color of their skin? The kid didn't know what to say. He said if he had been describing someone who was white like him, he wouldn't had said, "That white guy, he would have described what he was wearing".
Yeah, I think that is normal. I feel the need to add in color description when I am describing someone of another race. Not sure why. lol. In fact, the other day when my kids were talking about a kid in the neighborhood they said the kid in the blue shirt. I said, "the black kid?" LOL....well to be fair there were two kids in blue shirts. OH...OH! This is classic...a little girl that used to live down the street once said...she was 5, she was talking about her parents house hunting. She said, "my mommy said she wouldn't buy this one house because black people used to live there." LOL...LOL! I am sure her parents would have been mortified. I don't get too upset over race stuff. I have seen so many sides to it. I think some people don't think and others are just racist. Oh well. I can also see that it is easy to stereotype...even when you aren't thinking you are...ya know? I mean it just happens. Not right..but it does happen.
Okay - she got me in church yesterday! She took a dollar of that money and put it in the offering! No one even mentioned it!
