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ladyjanelly) wrote2008-05-24 10:03 pm
ladyjanelly) wrote2008-05-24 10:03 pm
Child-rearing
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.
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.
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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.