What Should We Teach to our Children?

Hello!☀️ Dear Readers this is another post of discussions. My humble opinion about what I personally Will and should teach to my children I like what the Bible says: the way you think, the way you are. So you and me have to be careful about what we tell them everyday. Children imitate and copy everything that we DO and THINK NOT what we SAY. Now, we all have our different views on that matter and you do not have to agree with me on that. This is what I think: 1/" Should we really talk about Racism to our chidren?

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3/ An Interesting Conversation with my Niece ( To me I was really interested)

Other Discussions Give me some flowers!! 🌺🌺Yes, give me💐 some flowers because I tried a live on my own in English. First one!

And many others in my Youtube channel. Thank you for watching

The other parts are in my channel. This is just the last and thank you for reading and watching.

Let me close this post with " 7 Seconds" that song 🎵 👌 of the 90's a best of Youssou N'Dour (a well known artist of Senegal 🇸🇳 and Neneh Cherry of the UK 🇬🇧) I love this song 🎵 ❤️ That song in my young age was a whole vibe and a mood. Very later on many years later in 2022 when I was going to catch a flight ✈️ at the airport, it was playing in the 📻 radio of the taxi 🚕 it took me back in the old days...I was suddenly nostalgic. This is 7 Seconds. Those who know, know.

I like Cooking 🍳 Too!//2

Hello! It is part 2 of my previous post " I Like to 🍳 Cook Too" I am not a big cook but I like to do it. In the other post I shared food of my country Gabon 🇬🇦 😋 and those from others that I learned with my Mom, my sisters and recipes books 📚 I have good memories of my time cooking with my mother, my aunts, my sisters ( cousins as well) and discovering recipes through books.

In the kitchen, we gathered, we chatted, we laughed 😅 together. Cooking was an important part of my life. It reminds me also the times we had with my grandmother. Back home, we cook for 🏡 the family, we cook for family gatherings like traditional weddings, birthdays 🎂 anniversaries, family reunion 🫂 and also welcoming guests. Eating together is such an important part of our lives in my culture. We also cook together in time of mourning when we gather for a lost family member. The first time I started cooking it was watching my Mothers and sisters then, I tried it on my own when I was 8 years old but it was a disaster! My best friend who was there in the kitchen with me that day was like : " hmmm yummy! 😋 " 🤣😂 actually there was too much salt! My Mom wasn't at home she was on call at work my father had to take a trip that night, so I wanted to cook something for my Dad. He tried to eat 😅but it was not good at all. Not possible! 😅😂 We called one of my aunts who came to my rescue😅. Later on, when I got my 11 years old, I did very much better. I started cooking and the rest is history! Learning to cook our local food is not easy because it is a whole process. It is a culture so we have to do it carefully with Love ❤️ and patience. Patience because it takes time to do it and in my country we have a variety of local dishes. These dishes 😋 are so good! I am so proud of this diversity in cooking.

So, tell me in the comments section what is your story with cooking? I often try to cook everything that I can... These are some shorts from me😅

I don't have all the ingredients and materials to cook some of the dishes here but I always try to adapt as much as possible. I made some bananas appetizers that we do back home 🏡

I will have some other posts on Cooking😊

My Heart ❤️ is Always There...

what is special tonight? Nothing but a lot too. My heart is always there...This chain of compassion for our children must be supported.

My heart ❤️ is still there for the children...Step by step and little by little we will get there. My heart is in this beautiful country of Africa. Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 My heart is also in my country Gabon 🇬🇦 but the time will be coming... School starts soon in French African countries. We start school on October. Again I use my little blog to share this; Sponsoring a Child to go to school 🏫 for a brighter future. I told you the story of this girl I saw in the African country where I went for high school years. She was working as a slave for a family in their home almost 24hr/24. She was forbidden to go to school. But school is the only way out of this slavery in some countries in Africa 🌍 School is the only way out for these little girls who are forced to go marry older men for financial support. School is the only way to get out of child domestic violence and child labor. That culture and tradition must stop. We cannot do much but we can at least help the way we can. It pains me to see such tradition still today. School is the only way out of poverty. In my native language there is a saying that goes a Man comes on earth with many bags 🎒 in one of these bags there is his destiny. His bright future. Let's be the one who will allow God to open the right bag for his life😭😟🥺 You are Africans or from somewhere else on the world and you are a philanthropist, I invite you to join this chain of sponsorship. I have already joined the chain with Burkina Humanitaire last month and I keep doing what is necessary. I chose to sponsora girl because I know how girls have life more difficultthan boys in Africa. I want to share Invite Joy which is another association based in the US and that specifically cares about the School for children in Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 too I recently joined the group bc someday I will do the right thing for children in my country too so I am learning from other Africans.

In June the fundraiser was a success. The organization went very well. Everything went smooth and good at the event.

I am so glad to see such humanitarian associations from Africans in the world who are trying their best to change things these days. This chain of compassion must be supported. Africa is one. The work is long but we will get there. Remember the story I shared in my channel

This is Part 2

Thank you for reading and passing by

Talking Money and Savings with My Friend

It was an interesting discussion on live youtube (I don't like going live but that was an interesting discussion). My friend Schelsea studied in the US. She is a registered Nurse and wrote her book about budgeting money. We met around 2008 since then we stayed good friend. She is married and has a little boy. I hope you will learn something too. This is her book. It is a good book because when you go study in America you need direction, you need advice and we didn't have it when we went there. We struggled financially so much because we didn't know how the school system works. I remember they were making me taking classes that I didn't necessarily need and being international student we paid more. Education is expensive in America. I am glad we made it through and what she did by writing this book will help many others

This is the live discussion with my friend.

On my other discussions and thoughts Seriously, Afrophobia MUST STOP!!

Generational Trauma is real. We need to be honest and talk about it

Part 2

and the other parts are in my youtube channel. What is lost is lost. What is gone is gone. My thoughts about it. Thank you for passing by. I see you in a next post

Discussions and Thoughts of the Week

And yes, I am back with more thoughts and discussions this week. I don't understand why I feel so inspired to talk about these issues that touch our African countries and Africans in general. I have been observing for so long and really I came with some conclusions. It hurts but I really believe that there are facts. I will post some of my recent discussions here but there are many more. I can't put them all here so you have to check them in my channel 1/ The Power of Writing your Dreams and Projects on Paper

2/ Why We Africans Need to Change our Mindset

3/ Africans we need to Change our Mindset

4/ Last part

More other Discussions 1/ How We Africans Treat Each Others

2/ How We Africans are Treating Each other part 2

That all I can share here. If you are interested to view more then, go find them in my channel @ Laetitia Life Diary the Paris Summer Olympics are over. Paris was good and the summer in the city I share with you two pictures of Versailles just relax and breathe

what are your best memories of Paris Olympics?

I like to cook too!

And thank you for passing by. I close this post with one of the best songs of Mike Brant before he sadly left this world. "Laisse Moi t'Aimer" ( Let me Love You) Rest in peace great artist. We will never forget you...

Des Discussions et des Memories

Bonsoir a toutes! mes cheres Dames. Un silence? Oui parce que je suis tres prise en ce moment mais je vous reviens bientot. Il y a beaucoup qui se passe dans ma vie. Mon fils vient de commencer les cours et j'avoue que c'est une veritable nouvelle adaptation. Il est habitue au systeme Francais (French) scolaire et la du coup il doit apprendre dans le systeme Americain. Les premiers jours des classes ont ete dures pour moi quand je le deposais. Je pleurais meme quand je le voyais rentrer dans les couloirs de la structure Mercredi. Ils ne veulent pas que les parents rentrent dans le building de l'ecole alors on les laisse a l'entree. J'aurai voulu voir sa classe et ou il s'assied mais bon ce ne sera pas possible...C'est vraiment dur pour moi et je peux dire que mon fils est tres brave. Il retient ses larmes quand je le laisse et obeit aux instructions. par contre je sais qu'il ne se laissera jamais marcher dessus. Il sera brave et courageux je le sais et je le lui repete tous les jours "Tu es brave! Tu es courageux!" Nous prions chaque matin au reveil et quand je le laisse a l ecole je prie pour une protection angelique sur sa vie. Si vous avez des conseils ou des experiences a me donner pour ceux qui ont commence a decouvrir le systeme scolaire Americain a l'age tout petit faiates moi prt de cela dans les box de commentaires en dessous etc. J'apprecierai de savoir comment vos enfants se sont adaptes. Comment vous avez gerer le changement. Mon fils a encore la barriere de la langue vu qu'il parle Francais mais j'ai demande a l'ecole de le mettre en classe pratiquant l'Anglais tout court. Au depart ils voulaient me le mettre dans une classe bilingue et j'ai dit non. Il s'adaptera comme tous les autres enfants. Il apprendra l'Anglais sur le terrain. J'ai refuse la classe bilingue parce qu'il n'y avait que des eleves parlant Espagnol alors vous imaginez qu'a la fin mon fils parlerait plus Espagnol que de l'Anglais et ce n'est pas ce que je veux. Ils n'ont aucune classe Francais et c'est normal alors du coup il devra s'adapter a l'Anglais simplement et c'est tout! Je lui parle Francais et ma langue a moi a la maison tous les jours afin qu'il ne perde rien. Bref! cheres lectrices, Je vous serai de retour bientot dans ma chaine youtube avec beaucoup d'autres sujets de discussions mais c'est bizarre, j'ai de moins en moins envie de parler en Francais. Lol! Je sens que ma bouche est lourde maintenant quand j'utilise cette langue. Je ne sais pas pourquoi! Je suis encore en mode fatigue. Il ya eu trop de choses et de changements a la chaine pour moi et etre mere seule c'est dur! lol!!! Mais on s'y fait! Tu dois etre litteralement au four et au moulin. Tu dois etre partout!

Aujourdhui, j'avais une bonne nostalgie de souvenirs de personnes biens que j'ai rencontre ici aux US il y a des annees de cela. Ces personnes qui ont toujours ete la pour moi dans mes moments difficiles. Ces personnes qui ont ete d'un soutien morale incroyable. Une amitie speciale comme celle de Jim. Parce que oui,Jim au depart m'apprenait a prendre des photos et on voyageait souvent dans d'autres villes et d'autres Etats des journees entieres juste pour aller filmer et photographier les paysages etc. On a fait l'Arkansas, l'Oklahoma des villes du Texas ensemble. J'ai assiste a des petits festivals comme le Pow Wow grace a Jim. Je suis vraiment reconnaissante d'avoir rencontre cette belle ame. Il m'a emmene visite des endroits biens et historiques comme des musees (J'aime les musees j en apprends tellement!). Rencontrer des personnes biens comme ca te marque tellement que parler du mot racisme serait tres mechant. Non, je parle rarement du mot racisme dans mes articles parce ce que j'ai rencontre des Americains formidables ici qui n'etaient pas de race Noire comme moi. Jim etait la dans un les plus difficiles moments de mes dernieres annees universitaires il m'a tendu la main jusqu'au dernier jour. Je souffrais d'horribles migraines alors il venait me chercher les soirs et me deposer a l'ecole les apres midi. Je vous assure comme ca me soulageait beaucoup. Thank you Jim for these precious moments. A good friend is never forgotten. May God bless you again and again. Voici des moments souvenirs de notre petit trip dans une ville. My adventurous spirit! Always wanting to visit and discover. Jim etait toujours la!

Et puis hier etait le 17 Aout fete de l'independance nationale. Oui une fausse independance mais que voulez vous c'est notre histoire...Alors oui Libreville me manque. Ses plages,🏖 ses cocotiers, son soleil ☀️🌴agnangoulé! Les poissons argentés...J'ai repense au vent de la mer, les sorties et visites en amis et en familles. Les soirees barbecue entre nous mais surtout mon village Jai vu quelques videos de defiles et de celebration nationale. J'ai eu un vif pincement au coeur parce que beaucoup de souvenirs de famille et d'enfance me sont revenus soudainement. Ca me manque! Comment se passe votre mois d'Aout? Voici quelques autres moments souvenirs de Libreville et d'autres videos de mes discussions recentes. Les videos sont tous les sweet memories...

Biensur je fini cet article avec mes shorts videos. J'espere que ce post vous a plu et je vous dis a tres bientot! Aurevoir!!