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		<title>Let Kids Be Kids!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can, think back to your younger years, maybe when you were grade school age, or even younger if you can. What were you like? Did you have fears and worries and doubts or anxiety?? Kids can be cruel. Let&#8217;s face it, adults can be cruel too. The world isn&#8217;t by any means a perfect place, it&#8217;s far from it. But as a parent, you want to try to instill good morals and selflessness and sensitivity. You want your child to be kind to others, to not make fun of another kid because of their clothes, toys, or choices even. Often times we hear about kids getting bullied in school or kids committing suicide because they had no friends, nobody who understood them or cared enough to try to get to know them. It&#8217;s sad! I have an almost 3 year old daughter and she loves princesses, but she also loves getting dirty, and sweaty and running around covered in filth and food. She almost always has stains on her clothes because she likes to get into things, she likes to &#8216;help&#8217; her daddy fix things (which usually ends up with her covered in cuts, scrapes, and bruises). And you know what?! I&#8217;m fine with that. I&#8217;m okay with the way she is. She&#8217;s happy, outgoing, lovable, kind-hearted, sweet, selfless, hysterical, and most of all&#8230;she&#8217;s my daughter. &#8230;she likes to &#8216;help&#8217; her daddy fix things (which usually ends up with her covered in cuts, scrapes, and bruises). And you know what?! I&#8217;m fine with that. I&#8217;m okay with the way she is. Normally when we take her places, within 5 minutes she is covered in sweat, her face is beat red, and her clothes are barely hanging onto her body. She&#8217;s amazing and adventurous! I love the life in her eyes and the gentleness of her soul. To me, she&#8217;s perfect. But there are still those people that make comments. I have had people refer to her as a &#8216;hobo&#8217; because of how she&#8217;s dressed. They&#8217;ve said she looks like she belongs &#8216;in a trailer park&#8217; because she was outside, in just a diaper, and someone told her she was a &#8216;hot mess&#8217; because she was sweaty and wearing raggedy, dirty play clothes from Wal-Mart that were covered in food of some sort! In what world do people think it&#8217;s alright to speak to a not even 3 year old like that, let alone a little girl?! Self esteem can be broken so easily. It really angers me and even breaks my heart to know that one day I&#8217;m going to have to answer some pretty tough questions from her and I pray to God that I can be strong enough to be honest with her and at the same time sensitive to the subject at hand. I pray that we will raise her right and she will be strong enough on her own to stand on her own two feet and know that people sometimes say hurtful things that aren&#8217;t true. They&#8217;ve said she looks like she belongs &#8216;in a trailer park&#8217; because she was outside, in just a diaper, and someone told her she was a &#8216;hot mess&#8217; because she was sweaty and wearing raggedy, dirty play clothes from Wal-Mart&#8230; I, of course, do not know what the future holds, but I pray for the future of ALL of our children. That they be kind and wise in their words and actions and that their parents teach them the difference between right and wrong. And parents, even though a child may not fit into your perfect mold that you have set, please also be kind with your words and actions and consider that child&#8217;s feelings before saying such hurtful things. Just let kids be kids!! It&#8217;s okay!!]]></description>
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		<title>My skin won&#8217;t stop me!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/my-skin-wont-stop-me-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My skin won&#8217;t stop me!As a 30 year old wife and mother, dog lover, and part-time vet tech&#8230;one of my issues with my skin is that I bruise easily. I might be at home playing with my daughter and I run into the coffee table&#8230;yep, gonna leave a nice big bruise! My 75 pound &#8216;lap dog&#8217;, who does NOT know that he is too big to sit on me, causes me to have huge &#8216;love bruises&#8217; all the time (he does it with the best of intentions). I might be at work and a big dog who is not happy about me holding him to get his nails cut&#8230;lots of big bruises! Sometimes I leave work just thinking to myself&#8230; I know I am gonna wake up tomorrow totally black and blue on my legs. With warmer weather coming I get embarrassed to wear shorts or bathing suits or anything that shows off my bruises. People have jokingly asked me if my husband beats me up&#8230;obviously not a very funny joke. I have other skin issues that have put me into a shell at some point in my life. I have had my fair share of bouts of hormonal acne, super dry skin that&#8217;s flaky, super oily skin that&#8217;s shiny. It seems as if it&#8217;s never just &#8216;normal&#8217;. Obviously as a teenager or an early twenties young girl, this stuff feels like it&#8217;s the end of the world&#8230;especially when you have a huge date with someone you&#8217;ve been dying to get together with. If my today self, could go back and talk to my early twenties self, she would have A LOT to say, but mostly she would say, be comfortable in your skin, and in who you are! It has taken me a long time to be comfortable enough as a person to show my face when I have a little breakout. When a topic like this gets brought up, a Dr. Seuss quote comes to mind, “Be who you are and say what you feel because people who mind don&#8217;t matter and people who matter don&#8217;t mind.”This may seem a slight bit off topic, but I promise it will tie in. My daughter has really gotten my husband and I into the Tinkerbell movies&#8230;ALL OF THEM! Secret of the Wings, The Legend of the Neverbeast, The Pirate Fairy&#8230;and the list goes on and on! Well anyways, as we are watching these movies&#8230;I&#8217;m thinking to myself (and anyone who knows these movies will know what I&#8217;m talking about) that all of these fairies are VERY VERY different. All fairies, but all have very different talents. There is a water fairy, a garden fairy, a light fairy, an animal fairy, a fast flying fairy, and of course the most well known is Tinkerbell, the tinker fairy. All of these fairies work together to make everything in the world work. The same way that there are so many different kinds of people in the world, to make it more diverse. Everyone is different and has/goes through different life struggles. Someone who may have absolutely perfect skin, may not be as blessed as I am in certain aspects of my life. I am beyond blessed and happy with who I am, and where I am, that I don&#8217;t let a little bruise or blemish deter me or get me down. It only took me 30 years, but I won&#8217;t let my skin stop me!!]]></description>
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