Parenting Preschoolers (3-5) Support Group
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Hi all. I am new to this site. I am so glad to be here. I look forward to meeting new people. I wanted to share an experience I had this week with everyone. It touched me and I hope it will you. I recently was asked to join the Board of Directors of our local homeless shelter. Since I cannot say no to anyone, I said yes. I was already familiar with the shelter because I work in affordable housing but I wanted to get more familiar. So I asked the Director what my staff and I could do to help out? She said that there were seven families with children currently residing in the shelter. She was looking for someone to do something for them for Christmas Day. She was pretty sure they would still be there. I told my staff and they ran with it. They are amazing. I thought about it and decided how fortunate I am. No matter how much pain I am in or how frustrated I get, I have a home to go to. How sad would it be to be a child and live at the homeless shelter on Christmas Day? How frightening? It saddens me that we live in a world with such wealth and we have children living in homeless shelters.
I sometimes need these reminders to refocus me.
I sometimes need these reminders to refocus me.
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Amen LoraRose! Sometimes we forget just how good we do have it. It is funny that I have just read what you wrote, because my family and I just got home from church, and we spent 15 minutes debating what we were going to have for lunch. We have plenty to eat at home and the ability to go out to eat whenever we choose, while so many folks would be happy just to get their hands on a peanut butter sandwich. I am a former corrections officer, and it saddens me that our tax dollars will put certified nutrionists in our prisons to make sure killers and child molesters have a well balanced diet, when there are women and children on our streets starving. God bless you for being helpful to others.
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We do forget how blessed we are.
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