Today's post isn't about my own child exactly or at all about food. It's about love though. And I wanted to share something I read off of a blog I read from a mother who lost her precious first born son Ben to Neuroblastoma, a form of pediatric cancer, in December 2008. Her blog is amazing, her stories touch the heart and I encourage any person to read it. Her family started Ben Towne Foundation http://bentownefoundation.org/home/, a charity which just in the last year raised 1 million dollars for childhood cancer research. As it stands our government gives less than 5 percent of it's cancer research money to pediatric cancer research, but childhood cancer seems to have some of the most challenging survival rates and it is just heart wrenching, as all cancer is. So this determined family decided to create a new cancer research foundation that would (hopefully) change the way pediatric cancer is treated. And, they have already done that. Read their website to see the amazing advancements their research is pioneering.
This article she posted today from the NY Times found here, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/notes-from-a-dragon-mom.html?_r=1&smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc_id=OP-SM-E-FB-SM-LIN-NFA-101611-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click, was written by mother Emily Rapp who is raising a terminally ill son.
My favorite part in the article, which was so thoughtfully written by a beautiful mother's heart, was this... "Parenting, I've come to understand, is about loving your child today. Now. In fact, for any parent, anywhere, that's all there is."
We all only have today, and our love today. No one is promised tomorrow, that is for sure. Such a true and valuable lesson. Not just in parenting, but in life. But as a mother, I know that is the truth in my heart. I hope you read it, and I hope it inspires you as it has me to choose to love like a Dragon Mom in a Tiger Mom world.
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