{"id":8200,"date":"2013-04-30T09:53:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:03:06","slug":"national-we-day-in-ottawa-one-mothers-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/national-we-day-in-ottawa-one-mothers-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"National We Day in Ottawa: One mother’s perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> am about a quarter of a century older than the demographic that We Day seeks to motivate and inspire, but it would have been impossible to attend yesterday’s amazing national We Day <\/a>event in Ottawa and not leave feeling like you can change the world. As much as the day’s events spoke to my inner 15 year old girl (who is, truth be told, never very far from the surface) I found myself considering the We Day messages and speakers through a maternal lens. <\/p>\n

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know it was a very exciting day for Tristan, Simon and me. Together with a few other blogger families, we were invited to cover the event and given media access to some of the celebrity activists and supporters thanks to TELUS. Through a partnership with Free The Children, TELUS is helping to inspire young leaders and build a community of young people dedicated to positive social change. High on my list of “best parenting moments ever” is watching Tristan pose a question to Free the Children founder Craig Kielburger himself – which I will let HIM tell you about in a separate post. But here’s a shaky shot of my boys patiently waiting their turn in the media line.<\/p>\n

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Proud of my boys! Tristan asked @craigkielburger<\/a> what he can bring back 2 class from #weday<\/a>. CK said ‘u are not 2 young, u can do anything’<\/p>\n

— Danielle Donders (@DaniGirl) April 29, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n