{"id":796,"date":"2009-12-06T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2009-12-06T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T22:22:00","slug":"how-dare-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"How Dare You???"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/Sxw2Bi87shI\/AAAAAAAAClo\/tYILUKSVl7Q\/s1600-h\/DSC_0067.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/Sxw2Bi87shI\/AAAAAAAAClo\/tYILUKSVl7Q\/s640\/DSC_0067.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>I<span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> have needed to write so badly. &nbsp;Yet if I could say what needed to be said, how it needed to be say&#8230; it wouldn&#8217;t have been pretty. &nbsp;So I have written and then deleted. &nbsp;Written and then deleted. &nbsp;I am writing again.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">How do you handle someone hurting your baby? &nbsp;The ugliness of words is a devastating thing. &nbsp;A punch&#8230; not cool but definitely something that time will erase. &nbsp;The ugliness of words&#8230; that has a lifelong effect.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Comments made about one&#8217;s color of skin is so sad. &nbsp;It is the kind of thing that creates such anger&#8230; and yet when you pause and think it through&#8230; one can only have pity on a person or family that feel such insecurities to make comments on things that are so irrelavant.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A comment was made about a child that one of my boys likes. &nbsp;It was said that one should not date outside of ones race. &nbsp;Blacks should be with blacks and whites with whites. &nbsp;Are we really living in 2009?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Then there is the dreaded he said she said. &nbsp;There is the &#8220;my child would never do that.&#8221; &nbsp;There is the vicious need for hurting back. &nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><i><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">How dare you hurt my babe?<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">There is no punishment that can be handed out that will erase the hurt caused.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">But I have to stop and focus on the amazing friends that my child has.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">His friend from JK&#8230; his sidekick&#8230; a boy that is quiet and unassuming and would not hurt a flee&#8230; slapped this child and said, &#8220;that isn&#8217;t nice.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Do I condone the slap? &nbsp;Of course not. &nbsp;Do I applaud this child that has been raised with the knowledge of wrong\/right that the natural gut instinct is a &nbsp;physical one?&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Yes!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sanj and Tyler were stunned to hear this was the friend&#8217;s reaction.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tyler&#8217;s reaction was, &#8220;He did that? Yes!&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I love that the children in this class stood up when ugliness raised its head.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">This is an issue we knew our children would have to deal with eventually, especially living where we do. &nbsp;We just never thought that it would be so soon.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">My kids will be OK&#8230; as Sanj and I survived that ugliness as it is just a part of life.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">My kids are surrounded by the true actions of love everyday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">When this happened, Tyler&#8217;s reaction was, &#8220;I want Mrs. H.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">How awesome that he knew where to seek safety and comfort.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">There will always be the thorns amid the roses&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">There will always be a beast among the beauties&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">There will always be bad amid the good&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I pray that my son(s) will &nbsp;never let ugliness taint their beauty.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I pray they will never give in to the little doubts life throws their way but rather see themselves as the gift(s) God bless us with.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have needed to write so badly. &nbsp;Yet if I could say what needed to be said, how it needed to be say&#8230; 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