Like this “woke baby” who drew her own sign and is taking the internet by storm, there were tons of children who attended the Women’s March this past Saturday. As I mentioned in my post about the Women’s March in NYC, I didn’t bring Mazzy or Harlow. Harlow is not good with crowds and Mazzy opted to stay home after I showed her the march on television earlier that morning. I was a little disappointed but once I was there, I thought she made the right choice. Mainly because she would have wanted to go home way before I was ready. I marched from start to finish, which lasted five hours.
Kudos to those parents who were brave enough to bring their kids and teach them a valuable lesson in standing up for what you believe in. Plus from an adult perspective, there is something extra impactful about seeing a protest sign on a child. We are fighting for their future after all.
Here are some of the smallest, yet most powerful protesters at the Women’s March:
source: @mommyshorts
source: @jfuentes
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source: Kathryn Tyler
source: @vicariouslyv
source: maya diamond
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source: David Chen
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source: @sincerelyash
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source: @kxthleen
source: Maiya Buck
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source: Elizabeth Warren
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source: Alice Speri
source: Julia Loffe
source: @alyciaskristen
source: @JenAshleyWright
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source: Rebecca Ramsey
source: Kaitlin Stanford
source: Stella Bugbee
source: Diana Tsui
I don’t know about you but I’m feeling pretty good about our future.
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Thank you for the collection. These are pretty wonderful. My favorites are the ones obviously done by the kids themselves
Thank you. These made me tear up- as did your March recap!
Thanks for including us. She was frowny, like a three year old, but it was super important to me to get her out there.
Teared up! Beautiful.
I really enjoyed these-so many smiling faces!
Wow! So many of those brought me to tears.
Love this post. #raisethechange
This is so great 🙂 good to know our future is in good hands!
Peaceful protesting is one thing. Bringing your children, who have no perspective yet, and feel EVERYTHING times 10, is not helping them or anyone else. They internalize so much. As an adult, I know that Trump has said some crass, inappropriate things about women. But I also know that his presidency will likely not have an impact on my day to day life. I’ll wake up, go to work, fix my kids dinner, and go to sleep. Children, who lack life experience, are told and hear things like “misogynist, racist, bigot Trump.” Therefore, the children who fall under any of those “targeted” groups: female, minority, transgender, etc, believe that this president is “against” them. They will go to bed worried about these things they have no control over. They feel victimized unnecessarily. Has Trump’s presidency had a direct effect on those children pictured above? Most likely not, except that they see and hear their parents. These parents are setting up their children to take on the victim roll. Its not empowering them. Its taking away their childhood. They should be on the swings at the park.