As a parent you have those times when you wonder if you are doing a good job raising your kids. You wonder if you are making sure that you are instilling in them the self confidence that they need to make it through the hard times of being a pre-teen and a teenager nowadays. My wife and I got lucky with some pretty amazing kids, but I need to share something that my daughter did that really blew us both away.
She has been going through a pretty tough time over the past month or so dealing with the anniversary of my best friends death, who was like an uncle to her and loved her dearly, to losing her best friends to a group of other girls at school and now all of the girls were bullying her and treating her bad. So needless to say, she has had a really rough time over the past month.
In her English class they are learning how to write poetry, and she said that she told the teacher that she has been writing poetry on her own for a while and asked if she could just spend some time in class writing, so the teacher let her. When she was done with this poem, she said she brought it up to the teacher and the teacher began to tear up as she read it. My daughter is only 12 years old, so I don't know if she quite understands how much impact her poems can have on you as you read them and how powerful her message was. Here is her poem:
The wind softly blew
As I watched the sunlight slowly start to shine through.
The rain stained window, the shiny glass
Outside the wind whistled through the trees and the grass.
I got up and looked out to the clear sky
Then walked up to the mirror, and met myself eye to eye.
No matter what they say, or what they do, I'll still be me, and I'll still be true.
That beautiful girl staring back at me, feeling happy, hopeful, beautiful and free. Because that amazing, awesome girl, is me.
When she posted the poem to her Facebook page and my wife and read it, we were both so proud of her. Not only because she has such skill with writing, but that she is choosing to be strong in the face of all the ones that are trying to tear her down with their negativity. We could all learn something from this 12 year old girl. My wife and I have said it many times that she is wise beyond her years, and this is just another example of that.
Thank you for taking the time to read about my awesome daughter. If you liked her poem feel free to upvote it, she is excited to see how much all of you liked her poem. You can also resteem her poem to share its positive message with more people, you never know who is in need of hearing it.
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