Child-rearing

[ladyjanelly]

There's a disadvantage to raising a kid of a different race than me.

I have failed my Kendra by lack of knowledge.

When I went to wake her up on Thursday her face was swollen.  One eye almost shut and the tip of her nose and her lips.  Like bad-swollen.

We tried benedryl.  We tried Ibuprofin.  We tried Blistex.  

Nothing helped.

Today while Sam and I were out at a cookout/armor building thing she called her grandmother.

Apparently that's how Kendra reacts to sunburn.

I feel like a bad mommy. 

Comments

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Imagine my horror when I found out that 'yes, Roxy, you can get a sunburn too.' Fifty years laughing up my sleeve and then--that happened. I was all "White people go through this *every* year? Get out in the sun *knowing* the agony they're going to suffer???"

And right now, thanks to helping out at a yard sale and pooh-poohing sunscreen like an idiot, my lips are *buuuuurning*.

[cali5.livejournal.com]

Imagine my horror when I found out that 'yes, Roxy, you can get a sunburn too.'

That's exactly how I felt that first time it happened to me -- haha. It also made me realize that there really is no such thing as a stupid comment/question/thought ("I didn't know that Black people get sunburned"). Sometimes you just don't know, until you know!

I feel I should mention that Kendra turns 20 in a month and has been living with us for a little less than 2 yrs.

And finding out about sunburn at the ripe old age of 20 -- yep, that's about when it happened to me.

[tabaqui]

Heeeeeee!
No no. We *really* white people hide under umbrellas and SPF fifty sunscreen.
:)

I got my share of burns as a kid - the worst being after going on a float trip with my church. Water + shiny aluminum canoe = omfg!!! The tops of my thighs were lobster-red. So un-fun.
*smooches you*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah, sunscreen from now on!! *hughug* Sunburns are like your body taking revenge on you!

[tabaqui]

They are!
And we deserve it. Heh.