Carissa Halton remembered her own graduation, so she didn’t expect her daughter’s to hit quite so hard.
“I’m sitting there in the graduation, the principal is starting to talk,” she said. “She just said, I see you guys out there and this is something that your kids are doing because you sat and read with them. You walked with them to the grocery store, taught them how to count up their money. You rocked them when they cried, you presented them with band aids when they needed it.”
“I found myself becoming emotional in a way I had just absolutely not been prepared for.”
Halton says the principal’s use of the phrase “seeds of hope” really impacted her.
“It was an emotional reaction that I couldn’t quite control,” she said.
Halton shared some reflections on the day, and on parenting more generally, with People First Radio.
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