A year ago an event I attended with my children, it was supposed to be a fun evening for us, more…read moreso specifically for my children. Since that evening those memories have lingered, the treatment I received from the organizers and some of those attendees, has left pain, hurt, and dark memories of that organization and the event they put on for the public.
These photos are of my children from that evening a year ago. Last week I went back to see the registration details on that organizations website for this same event coming up in a few weeks, to only come across THESE RESTRICTIONS now plastered across their webpage. I took my children, I as the chaperone, my son as the prince, and my daughter's as the princesses. I was the ONLY mother/female there with her children last year. Everyone else was an adult male with a young girl.
What was the harm, damage done by myself chaperoning my children to attend a "prince and princess dance"?? To now place restrictions on their annual event. The organizers made it obvious they did not welcome me there, they all kept approaching me questioning me. When I left that night, I felt I could not have left there fast enough. My children deserve equal treatment as any other child does. To treat a parent, mother, adult, who did no harm and had the children's best Interest first to attend that event. Those organizers should be ashamed of themselves for what they did and said. This organization hosting this event coming up in a few weeks, shame on all the organizers who have put their opinions into putting this on, how they mistreat parents, discriminate towards families and don't welcome families of different dynamics.
I made a few phone calls around the city, and THANKFULLY there are other organizations locally that recognize the dynamics of families and WELCOME my children and myself together to attend their prince/princess dance. We are now registered to attend these events with these other gracious organizations. They will keep my business, with positive words, my support, and I will gladly give them referrals! Thank you to these organizations/businesses that open their doors to all families!
(One day that other organization may hopefully open their eyes and mind to see how discriminatory they are to publically place those restrictions. Shameful).
