Tomorrow is back to school for my little and my big!
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One is off to UMBC to study psychology and the other to Pre-First grade.
(What's THAT you say? - I will explain in another post)
I am excited and to be honest a little sad.
They are both growing up so quickly, before my eyes I am catching glimpses of who they are going to become and it makes my heart ache that I won't have them as they were or are ever again.
I am going to have to work on multiple streams of income in the coming years like never before! I have my plan set up though - I am going to release a book before the end of the year hopefully as well as obtain my graduate licensure so that I can practice counseling with supervision!
I thought to myself today -
Why are you putting yourself in such a bind so that your littles can be educated?
I remembered something - They deserve the best I can do. The very, very, very best I can do, and until I am dead and gone I will do my best to make sure they are prepared to be their best and for me that means education and exposure to different cultures and ways of living beyond Blackness.
This is not to say that they shouldn't know what Blackness means and how being Black shapes their lives and futures and their very existence, but that they need to be exposed to people and places and things that are not Black in their presentation so that they are able to move in a room of people of all nationalities and be comfortable in their own skin.
Stay balanced and blessed,
Faye BBS...
