IComLeavWe: Day 5

This is day five of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on.

Featured post - Letters to our children

I love it when people write letters to their kids on their blog. I've only managed it once so far, on the occasion of Julian's 4th birthday, but I just love reading the messages and thoughts that others want to share with their kids, like Anissa's letter of apology to her kids that I featured recently. Today I came across a wonderful letter and wanted to share it with you. So my featured post today is Oh, you dear, sweet thing from the Naptime Writing blog.

The letter starts out:

Dear little person:

I am so sorry that the world feels out of your control. I’m sorry it’s so tough to be small.

I’m sorry that people will minimize your frustrations by saying “it’ll only get worse.”

And I’m sorry that it will. Only get worse.

The letter goes on to talk about everything from adventure to societal pressures to donuts to feelings. It ends with thoughts on the burden and gift of a sibling. Go read. You'll nod. You'll cry. You'll empathize with the child. You'll empathize with the mother. It is truly a beautiful letter.

Posts I commented on

1. Z Recommends: A Proposal for Disclosure on Twitter


2. Beautiful Letdown: Tattling, Telling, and Working it Out


3. Curious Dad: More thoughts on religion and parenting


4. Mummy Do That: Timely


5. BabelKid: Secret Language or Lack Thereof


6. My Cost of Living: Thoughts on child-led parenting


7. No Time for Flash Cards: Autumn memory game


8. My Milk Split: Motherless mothering


9. Mindless Mommy: Three Years Ago Ava was Diagnosed with Autism


10. Naptime Writing: Oh, you dear, sweet thing


11. Noble Savage: Unsafe but undeterred


12. Okaasan Mommy: Surprise


13. Paisley and Pretties: Thirty Awesome Things


14. Now What? The shoe is on the other foot


15. Parenting Baby to Sleep: How do we revert coercion with our children


16. Penguin Unearthed: On imagining flexible work


17. A peek inside the fishbowl: Because all the world is a stage ** this is a fabulous post and probably would have made it as my featured post if I hadn't already chosen one that I loved and wasn't about to go off to bed!

Comments

[Laurel]

Beautiful choice of letter.

[Ann Douglas]

I love this idea. When I get my life back (soon!!!!) I will have more time to have more fun. Sooooooooo looking forward to it.