Sorors with boy children

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Comment by Mardi Woods (Collins) on July 29, 2009 at 5:40pm

Go and hug your
> "Michael" by Maya Angelou...
>
> Yesterday I cried
> watching the Michael Jackson memorial. I cried for
> a
> little black boy who
> felt the world didn't understand him. I cried for
> a
> little black boy who
> spent his adulthood chasing his childhood. And
> I
> thought about all the
> young black boys out there who may too feel
> that
> the world doesn't
> understand them. The ones who feel that the world
> does
> not understand their
> baggy jeans, their swagger, their music,
> their
> anger, their struggles,
> their fears or the chip on their shoulder.
> I
> worry that my son, may
> too, one day will feel lonely in a wide,
> wide
> world.
>
> I cried for the young
> children of all colors who may live their
> life
> feeling like a misfit,
> feeling like no one understands their
> perspective, or their
> soul. What a burden to carry.
>
> As a mother, I cried
> for Katherine Jackson because no mother should
> ever
> bury a child. Period.
> And I think about all the pain, tears and
> sleepless nights that
> she must have endured seeing her baby boy in
> inner
> pain, seeing him
> struggle with his self-esteem, and his insecurities
> and
> to know he often felt
> unloved even while the world loved him deeply.
> How
> does it feel to think
> that the unconditional love we give as
> mothers
> just isn't enough to
> make our children feel whole? I wonder if she
> still
> suffers thinking, "what
> more could I have done?" Even moms of
> music
> legends aren't immune
> to mommy guilt, I suppose.
>
> When Rev. Al Sharpton
> ("who always delivers one" awesome
> "funeral
> speech") said to
> Michael's children, "Your daddy was not
> strange...It
> was strange what your
> Daddy had to deal with," I thought of all
> the
> "strange" things of the
> world that my children will have to deal
> with.
> Better yet, the things
> I hope they won't ever have to deal with
> anymore.
>
> And as a mother raising
> a young black boy, I feel recommitted and yet
> a
> little confused as to
> how to make sure my son is sure enough
> within
> himself to take on the
> world. Especially a "strange" one. To
> love
> himself enough to know
> that even when the world doesn't understand
> you,
> tries to force you into
> its mold or treats you unkindly, you are
> still
> beautiful, strong and
> Black. How do I do that?
>
> Today, I am taking back
> "childhood" as an inalienable right for
> every
> brown little one. In a
> world, that makes children into
> booty-shaking,
> mini-adults long before
> their time, I'm reclaiming the
> playful,
> innocent,
> run-around-outside, childhood as the key ingredient in
> raising
> confident adults.
> Second, I will not rest until my little black boy,
> MY
> Michael, knows that his
> broad nose is beautiful, his chocolately
> brown
> skin is beautiful, and
> his thick hair is beautiful.
>
> And nothing or no one
> can ever take that away from him.
>
> "Now aint we bad? And
> ain't we black? And ain't we fine? ---Maya
>
> Angelou

Comment by Quintaunia Charles on July 27, 2009 at 11:10pm

Hello Sorors, my son is 10 years old and he is truly my heart with legs. I almost lost him 6 years ago when he came down with Kawasaki (An illness that turns your organs against your body). But God is so good that He gave my son complete healing and now he is just an active, healthy boy. To God Be The Glory for the things He has done.

Comment by Tosha (Martin) Huddleston on June 10, 2009 at 6:47pm

Greetings Sorors, my sons are 17, 14 & 12 years old. I know it sounds like a cliche' but they grow up so fast. My oldest starts college next year.

Comment by Dorian Dickerson-Whiteside on March 31, 2009 at 3:07am

Okay so my son is here....yeeee! He is now 9 months and I am just so in love. Pregnant again with our 3rd child, this time...another girl...Smile!

Comment by Dewanda E. Hogan-Holley on October 15, 2008 at 10:31am

Hello Sorors,
I have two sons Jordan (12) and Jaden (1), so you know I have my hands full!!!

Comment by Sharita on October 7, 2008 at 12:02pm

My son is 5 years old and loves to talk and ask WHY questions.

Comment by Samia Wiley on September 27, 2008 at 12:51am

My baby is a boy although he keeps telling me "I'm not a baby". He's 3...I cant let go.....lol

Comment by Keri Walker-Wallace on September 10, 2008 at 11:50am

I have two sons, Cyree (14) and MJ (7-1/2). Two completely different children. I am about to be a soccer mom!

Comment by Shawanna Brown on June 21, 2008 at 9:26pm

concerned (correcting my spelling error)..

Comment by Shawanna Brown on June 21, 2008 at 9:25pm

Hi Sorors,
I have a recently turned 4 year old son, Collin Michael. And I read Soror Andrea Wright's comment about her son being Spiderman and now Ben 10. I really don't understand little boys (after reading 2 books about rearing them). I am concerned that my son is not interested in learning his alphabet by sight (He only knows A, B, C, O, and W). He plays and interacts with other kids like a normal kid, but I am not feeling this lack of interest in academics (give him Wolverine, Ninja Turtles, Batman, Hulk, and Spiderman any day!!). Should I be conerned??

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