Overwhelmed

Through Dawn at this woman's work, I watched this short film.  You really must watch this.  (And, actually, you really should watch them all.)

Most of the time, I love reading or talking about parenting, adoptive parenting, and transracial adoptive parenting.  Doing a good job at this parenting thing is one of the most important goals in my life (along with strengthening my faith and my marriage).  Usually I feel like reading/thinking/talking about so many aspects of parenting is helpful.  I feel like perhaps I am learning something that will help me make my boys' lives better than it might have been. 

Right now, though, I just feel heartbroken and overwhelmed. 

Watching that little girl look down at the "bad" Black doll, and slowly push it forward as the one who looked like her... 

It is crushing.

Don't you ever wish you could just give up and retreat into the "Love is Enough" theory of parenting? 

Faith tells me that there is hope.  But the world sometimes seems so very hopeless.

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[Leigh]

I wish I could see this film from home. I'm going to try and remember to watch it next week at work.

If it's like it sounds, it sounds sad : (