Angelia Vernon Menchan

Angelia Vernon Menchan is an author, publisher and public speaker who owns two publishing companies, MAMM Productions and Honorable Menchan Media. Mrs. Menchan is also a Budget Officer and former Job Corps Counselor. To date she has published twenty-three books of her own work, both fiction and non-fiction and more than eighty ebook novellas on amazon.com. You can access her bibliography on www.amazon.com search words: Angelia Vernon Menchan




Contact information:
Website: http://acvermen.blogspot.com
Email: acvermen@yahoo.com
Phone numbers: 904 714 2272 904 303 2679

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Letting Go...

Letting go of your children… particularly our sons…is one of the hardest things in the world to do…
But let go we must…
My youngest made a decision about his future…he is twenty-one years old…
He knew it was time to be man…
He didn’t ask me…
Or his dad…
He handled his business…
Then TOLD us, when it was a fait accompli…
I had never been prouder in my life…
I knew that my husband and I had raised a man…

Black Mothers…
We are going to have to learn to let these boys go…
Allow them to make mistakes…
And decisions on their own…
If we want to turn this cycle around…
Of raising our daughters…
And spoiling our sons…
We had better start now…
They need us to allow them to fail…
To stand on their own two feet…
Otherwise…
The true emasculation of Black Men…
Just might end up being…
On the backs of Black Mothers…
Love them…
Be there for them…
But allow them to grow up…
Out…
Away from us…
Please…
They need that…
And…
So do we…

Love, Blessings, and Peace…

AcVernon Menchan

2 comments:

Gwyneth Bolton said...

Amen! That relationship between black mothers and their sons is something... Your post is right on!

Gwyneth

Angelia Vernon Menchan said...

Hey Lady -
Glad to see you back...

Love and Blessings...

angelia