Beautiful lengths!

There's a little boy in Jasmin's class at pre-school that has Leukemia (can you even imagine?). He's 4 years old. He's been away from pre-school this year because of chemotherapy treatments and has just recently returned. Today he wasn't at school and Jasmin worried that he wasn't there. "Isaiah wasn't at kindy today. Maybe he's sick again...".

Words like Leukemia and topics like cancer are really big concepts for little people. Before Isaiah returned to Kindy, Jasmin's class watched a puppet show organised by camp quality. It's peformed at schools where students are affected by cancer to help the other little people around them understand more. It talks about anti-bullying, cancer treatments and how these treatments affect the little ones on them.

This experience has opened up all kinds of conversations between Jasmin and I. One of those conversations was about people donating their hair to make wigs for people that loose their hair with cancer.

Fast forward a few weeks, and my 5 year old decided that she would cut her long long beautiful hair (that I adore) and donate it HERE in the hopes that it would go to a little girl that didn't have hair. She said she would give it to Isaiah, "But mum. A boy doesn't want a girls long hair wig"!

Despite the fact that Jasmin's understanding of what she has done is really quite limited, I am unbelievably proud of her! It's experiences like this that will help shape her character and who she is as she grows and I imagine that this will become more and more meaningful to her as she gets older and as she comes to understand, just what it means.

She walked in to that hair dresser and shyly told the lady she wanted to cut off her pony tail and send it to someone who didn't have hair. The hair dresser cried. I was teary too. Jasmin sat in the chair and beamed. 

 

She's still beaming about it!