Julian and Eli, You have been my eye opener. You have given me more than i could have ever imagined. My heart fills up with joy everytime i watch you, and i run out of words to describe how i feel when i see you all smile at me. I love you, with all my heart.
I vow to do all my best to take care of you. I will share all my knowledge with you. I will give you and leave you everything that i have, all my material possession, it is all yours. Whatever my mom, my dad, grandparents, brothers and my sisters have given me, or shared with me, i will make sure that i pass that on to you. You mean the world to me! Your father agrees with me as well, he will do the same. He will teach both of you everything that he knows and hopefully when you are at our age, you will have bypassed us by miles, if not by tens of thousands away.
We will always tell you and remind you, that you can be anything you want to be, that the sky is your limit!
We both want you boys to do better than us…We want you to accomplish every worldly dream that you have set for yourself. I want you to take what we have as ideas and make them into a reality.
I will expect you to respect your elders and authority. I expect you to be kind and obidient. Make sure You never cause anyone harm, the only exception would be to protect yourselves. I will do everything to make sure you grow up to be responsible adults. I will take away your favorite toys or place you in times outs, when you don’t behave yourself, and when you really behave in a way i feel could hurt you or someone else, i will probably spank you.
I will always be there for you. I will be your mom, your friend, and your educator. I would want you to be free to talk to me, and tell me everything you are going through no matter how bad it is. I will be your voice when you fear to speak, i will be your security blanket when you are afraid, and i will be a phone call away whenever you need me, no matter how far apart we will be.
So my sons, i believe your dad and i have learned a whole lot about life, and are still discovering many things that would benefit you both. We will sit down with you and share all of that wisdom, skills, and knowledge, so we can get you to where you need to be. My father, your grandaddy made sure i had every book that i needed for school. He put me through good schools, and he expected good grades at the end of the school year. The day i graduated in college, my father, mother and my older brother flew thousands of miles all the way from that little town in Tanzania called Kikelelwa, Kilimanjaro region to come and see me walk during my graduation. My father cried that day. He told me thank you, for making his dream come true. It was very emotional, my mom was crying as well… To everyone else reading this they may think what is the big deal…to them i say, this was a big deal to my father, I was the first woman in our family to have gone that far in school. I graduated with honors, i made sure my father got a copy of my diploma it was his, my gift to him.
So, we all have dreams for our children, there is so much we expect of them, but we have to be there for them, spend time with them, make sure that they have all the necessary tools to get them the expected results. I will make sure my kids get their homework done, i will teach them what i feel they are behind in, and i will talk to their teachers, or trainers and figure out what i need to do, to help them do their best.
If you are parent, teacher, trainer, someone’s uncle or aunt, granpa or grandma you too can play a big role in those young minds in your life. Start by sharing your knowledge with them. It may look or appear like common sense to you, but you may just be instilling an idea in that future star in front of you. Julian is 3 years old, he knows his ABCs, he can count, he can read most beginners books, and if he can’t read a word, he can spell it, and will ask fo you to pronounce it. He can type words on the computer, he knows the basic commands on the computer on both windows and MAC. As he grows, his father will teach him video creations and editing, In doing this, we hope he will develop his own passion and figure out what he is good at. Chances are most kids his age already know what he knows now, or even more, the point here is you have to take it upon yourself to teach your children what YOU know. You are your kid’s best teacher!
So Julian and Eli, I am here now and will always be there for you to make sure you are at your best!
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