You can have all the expectations in the world but ultimately raising a good person that has strong skills to take on life is a major goal of parenting. There are an infinite amount of moments as a parent where you question if you’re doing a good job. You wonder if you’re raising good humans. There can also be just as many moments where you get a glimpse into the incredible people your children are becoming. Sometimes when you have frustrating weeks of never ending fights over homework and heated debates over the smallest things you can feel like parenting is the hardest job in the world and I would argue that it is definitely one of them! Every now and then you get these wonderful moments that gift themselves like presents, and are what make every homework fight so worth it
My daughter has always loved to sing. This young lady will sit in the car and make up songs and sing about basically anything she’s doing, and it’s beautiful. I will have to put her in some kind of singing program because this is definitely something she wants to continue to do! My daughters school… her incredible school has let this little girl sing Oh Canada half a dozen times and we’re only a month into the school year. Seriously she has gotten to sing our national anthem, a capella over the intercom for the ENTIRE school every week since school started. I’m so happy that they’ve been supportive of her but I’m even happier that this little girl has some thing I never had.
Confidence… This girl radiates it! That is something that did not come easy to me as a little girl. I also loved to sing as a child but had so much self doubt and insecurities and I never took the opportunity when I was younger to put myself out there and showcase the talents I thought I had! I questioned my artwork I questioned my singing and constantly told myself there was somebody better and more talented with anything creative I ever did. If I’m honest I still compare myself to others all the time! It took me well into my late 20’s before I felt good about sharing things I loved regardless of what people thought, which meant I didn’t nourish a lot of my talents early on. Not Kaydence, my wonderful daughter has started to learn this skill so early on its inspiring! Of course I have always encouraged her and I’ve always supported everything she has shown an interest in. This passion for sharing her talent crept up on me she hasn’t had any formal singing lessons or auditions, she also hasn’t done anything structured for singing but yet she approached her teacher and asked if she could sing for her seemingly out of nowhere. She simply just asked to sing Oh Canada for the entire school and was said yes too! I think about how I have avoided asking for opportunities just out of the fear that the answer might be no. But not for her, she knew the answer could have been no and when I asked what made her ask to sing, she simply said “I hoped she would say yes”. Kaydence continues to ask to do it, she finds opportunities to do the things that she’s enjoys and that’s so incredible to me!
To get all mushy about it my daughter is the one that inspires me because these things do not come easily to a lot of people and she’s figuring it out now! She is looking forward to auditioning to sing for one of her ceremonies at school and I couldn’t be prouder. I’m so thankful that she has found her voice and I don’t mean singing voice I mean the voice of confidence, the voice just to ask someone to do something. I really hope this sets a precedent and she will continue to speak up for herself and desires and speak out in personal matters.
So for today as a parent I’m not stressing over the little things. The homework fights don’t matter the arguments over chores don’t matter today I’m going to sit in the pride that I have as a parent. I love her so much!