Last year I did not have a traditional birthday party for my eldest, instead I opted to carry cupcakes, juice and goody bags (the parents fail safe) to school. It was a great afternoon I got to commune with her classmates and teacher, and they got a chance to act up to the unaccustomed presence in the room. It was all in great fun and I would not have changed the experience for the world.
That's where I thought it ended. To my surprise when my daughter got in the car that day she said to me, "Mummy look what I got!" Her little hands were filled with the treasures that children collect and find value in. There was an old toy cell phone with the flip part broken off, a piece of red string, a sticker (we all know that these are the currency children trade in), a purse with some of the beads lost and a pretty pencil - already sharpened halfway down! Her classmates had gifted her with all their treasured items in lieu of birthday gifts and more remarkable than that is the fact that they had done this giving spontaneously, on their own accord! Based on this experience, the innate generosity of the young and their innocent kindness has me energised and this is how I am led to believe that somehow our future will be safe.
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