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This is to counter my selective memory....

Saturday, May 29, 2004

I just got World Vision's reminder that it will be my sponsor child's birthday soon. Then I realized that I didn't even know when that would be; nor did I even know how old she was. I had to dig for 5 mins in my files to figure it out. Boy, I suck big time...I really hope that this isn't indicative of how bad of a mother I'd be...seems like everyone has been thinking about kids; for me, I'm always asking myself what I would do in a certain situation and would that be a good 'mother-choice' or bad one; would I be a weak push-over mum, or an over-bearing, too high expectation mum, would I be a cool mum who knows when to leave it up to the kids to figure it out, or one who gives too little direction and discipline...I sure hope I could be a good mum.
However, present situation indicates that I'd just be a neglectful mom.

Milenna Santos from Brazil - she'll be turning 7. Wow, she was 4 when I started to sponsor her in my masters year...it's sad because I can see her thinning out in her pictures, she was a chubby little kid at 4..pretty skinny now.

5 Comments:

At May 30, 2004 at 1:21 AM, Blogger akt said...

oh, her birthday is actually in october; they send out early b/c mail takes about 3 months to get there!

 
At May 30, 2004 at 2:22 AM, Blogger Jasy said...

i wanna sponsor a kid toooooo
i was gonna sign up with compassion but never got around to it...

i'm never having kids.

 
At May 30, 2004 at 7:41 PM, Blogger ebrian said...

I'd like to sponsor an entire community.. do they allow that?

 
At May 30, 2004 at 7:55 PM, Blogger akt said...

actually, that's what they do; though you have a specific child that you 'sponsor' the money goes towards the entire community for education, health etc. You retain personal correspondence with the specific child...

https://www1.worldvision.ca/wvcweb/on_line_.nsf/howspworks?OpenForm

 
At May 30, 2004 at 7:58 PM, Blogger akt said...

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