My Daughter’s Keeper
By Zerline Hughes
This blog is turning o
ut to be quite the conversation starter. Score! One post helped one reader find summer camp option at the 11th hour.
Another follower, a fellow school parent, recently called me to chat about the post on my son’s Big Brother program mentor. She told me a short story about her daughter not having a relationship with her father and asked if there was a sort of Big Brother program for girls in need of father figures.
Wow! What a great idea. I haven’t heard of anything like that but I LOVE the idea. Sounds like another nonprofit in the making.
My daughter is in Girl Scouts to fill a void and provide mentorship, but I just realized with that night’s phone call, that aside from her father’s once to twice monthly visits and interrupted phone calls, there’s nothing formal in place for her to get that “manly” mentoring that girls, too, nee
d.
Well, lemme step back; that’s not exactly the case — not anymore, at least. I’ve had a steady boyfriend for nearly three years now. And over the past two years, we’ve all grown closer as a family, taking trips, having family cookouts, going to car shows (even though my girl hates that particular annual trip), having picnics and I think its making a big difference.
So with the combination of ex-husband, boyfriend, and for the boy, a Big Brother mentor, my kids, I pray they have what they need.
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