FMF Writing Prompt Link-up :: Teach

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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: TEACH

Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO. 

Parenting is a sanctifying process.

It’s also quite a learning experience. An ongoing sanctifying learning experience.

I’ve learned so much from my kids — about the world, about God, about myself. About hair.

Yes, hair. When I was nine months pregnant with my firstborn, I sat on the edge of the bed and started crying. My husband put his hand on my shoulder and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“What if it’s a girl?” I cried. “What will I do with her hair?”

It was a girl, and it took me no less than nine years to get any semblance of an idea what I was supposed to do with her hair.

Now she’s 16, and I’m still learning.

As a white mom of a biracial daughter, I’ve had a lot of learning to do. My poor girlie hasn’t learned how to care for her hair from me . . . she’s had to learn from YouTube, then persuade me that she knows what she’s doing.

A few months ago it was a weave. I had no idea how it worked, and I felt stupid having to ask anyone. Eventually we made it happen.

This past week, it was box braids. A first at our house, and hopefully the last time for a while.

I had to laugh when my daughter had two of her white friends over the other day to help her with her hair. First she had to explain what box braids were, then she showed her friends how to attach the hair extensions to her own so she could braid them down.

That’s my girl, I thought. She’s in here giving us white girls an education. 

STOP.

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