Will Dream For Children

If a job description were to be written for the position of mother it would not be complete without dreaming. Dream Big. Dream Often. Dream impossible, improbable, unimaginable dreams. Dreams for yourself and for your children. Especially for your children.

Two years ago one of the first posts I ever wrote here was about the dreams I was inspired to dream that warm, sunny day for The Princess. This year MOMocrats is hosting an equally, if not more, inspired round-up of motherly dreams. Dreams for our daughters and for our sons. And while my dreams contain many of the same things for my daughters as they did two short years ago they have expanded and transformed as that time has wore on.

I still dream that they will have the courage to take advantage of all the opportunities that come their way without hesitation. I still dream that they will take those steps with all of the amazing courage and grace I see in them both even now as young children. But, today I also dream a few other dreams for them. I dream that they will be confident in who they are, every step of the way. I dream that they will not have to look up into a glass ceiling. A glass ceiling that will reflect back at them all of the things that everyone else might be thinking about them. I dream that they will never have to view themselves through the disfiguring reflection of that glass ceiling - a reflection that I am so loathsomely familiar with. I dream for them the right to be taken seriously, not despite their gender, but in light of it. I dream for them beauty, brilliance, and a zen-like balance between femininity and powerful influence. I dream for them the attainment of all that my generation strives for, because is that not what both the motherhood and the dreaming is all about? Paving the road to their dreams. Dreams that will no doubt be bigger, more impossible, and more improbable than those that I can fathom - just as mine are bigger, more impossible and more improbable than the ones that my mother dreamt for me? I dream for them so that they may dream big, impossible, improbable, unfathomable, crazy dreams for themselves and for their children. Especially for their children.