Today for your reading pleasure, I offer you an essay from The Christian Science Monitor written by my dear friend Patricia Dunn–Cookies and 120 bookmarks: A Muslim mom shares Ramadan with the first and second grades:
When my son’s first-grade teacher asked during “meet the teacher night” if I would talk to the entire first and second grade about Ramadan, the Tricia in me wanted to scream, “You’re the teacher. You teach them about Ramadan!”
Tricia, the name my parents shouted whenever I acted up, is the name I’ve given to my adolescent self. Yes, in that moment, sitting on a chair too small to support my adult thighs, was an insecure teenager too angry to talk to 120 first and second graders. She was angry with a world where Muslims have become synonymous with suicide bombers and where a public school in California is sued for inviting a Muslim family to share its traditions at the school. But the Ali’s mom in me, the responsible parent, said, “I’d love to.”
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