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What are your hopes for your daughter?

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KateMumsnet · 29/03/2011 12:45

Last year, as part of our ongoing support for organisations working on maternal health in the developing world, CarrieMumsnet handed in a Mother's Day card to David Cameron and Nick Clegg, asking them to keep the issue high on the international development agenda. One year on, and there's good news: the number of women dying in childbirth worldwide is falling. But there's still a long way to go, and so this Mother's Day the White Ribbon Alliance is asking Mumsnetters to add their 'Dreams For My Daughter' to those already submitted by families worldwide.

The plan is to send some of these Dreams to Number Ten, to remind the government to keep up the pressure on world leaders to deliver the funding they promised at the UN in September. The goal is to provide 3.5 million extra health workers, which would help to prevent 1000 women a day from dying needlessly in childbirth - and the idea came from a Hadhya, a Yemeni WRA member, whose own mother's dream was that her daughter wouldn't be married at 11 and a mother at 13, as she had been.

If you'd like to help, do post your own Dream here; they can be as pragmatic and personal, or as global and wide-ranging as you'd like. And if your household is a boys-only one, don't be put off - you can post your dream for your son (or for a possible future DIL or granddaughter Smile) here too.

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benelf · 29/03/2011 20:39

My darling girls, please:

Be healthy. Be there for each other when Daddy and I are gone. And above all, be happy.

That's all.

Overtiredmum · 29/03/2011 20:45

My dreams for DD and DS are the same - that they be healthy and happy, are given all the opportunities in life that they deserve, to know that they are loved so that they can share that love, and that one day they experience the happiness that having a child can bring to your life.

I now want to cry - this thread is lovely!

PureNewWoolWithPerfectStitches · 29/03/2011 20:55

I can't read the rest of this thread! I read a couple and was already welling up.
So, for you, my most darling daughter...
I hope you carry the amazing strong will and confidence you have now, through to your adulthood.
I hope you find a career that fulfils you.
I hope you find a partner who is strong, faithful, kind and utterly devoted to you (and loves his or her MIL Wink)
Most of all I hope you lead a long, happy and healthy life.

Ponders · 29/03/2011 21:22

I have 2 lovely daughters, both grown up now.

One is a teacher & one is a social worker.

I am soooo proud of them both Smile

boobellina · 29/03/2011 21:32

I hope my DD keeps and grows her compassion.
I hope my DD manages to conquer her temper and as she grows learns that anger and rage can be cathartic but they should never consume.
I hope my DD can maintain her ability to enthral and enchant. I would love her to grown up realising how powerful this can make her.
I know she will always be beautiful but I hope I teach her that her actions are more important that her looks.
I pray that she is happy, finds a partner that worships the very ground she walks on and that she always loves coffee and cake with her mummy as much as now.

SpeedyGonzalez · 29/03/2011 22:35

Such lovely wishes on this thread!

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My daughter is not quite 1 but I am already so proud of her and full of excitement for the life she is living.

I hope that my daughter will be strong, brave, loving, hilarious, compassionate, fearless, passionate and creative.

I hope that she will have a strong sense of her self and her unlimited value, and that she will continue to be a joy to those whom she loves and who love her.

I hope that she will be committed to challenging wrongs and to protecting and enriching the environment.

I hope that she will follow her instincts and the courage of her own convictions, and that she will know how to refuse a fantastic opportunity if it would compromise her.

I hope that she will build a career in which she can exercise her intelligence and creativity, help others to do the same, and transform somebody's life - even if this only happens once.

I hope that she will create a family life which is loving, challenging, liberating and ultimately fulfilling.

I hope that she will explore life and enjoy it to the full, whilst enriching the lives of those she meets.

I hope that, unlike me, she will see her mother grow old and that we will both bless each other at every stage of our relationship.

I hope that she will go on learning from life until she draws her last breath.

I hope that when she finally does draw her last breath, she does so surrounded by love.

Thomcat · 29/03/2011 22:41

That they love their time at school and have fun, make good freinds but that they aren't afraid to study hard and not go with the flow just becuase it seems easy. I want them to be strong, independent, but popular women but I'd like it if they could count their true friends on one hand. I'd like them to work to the best of their ability and that that ability can open any door they knock on. I'd like them to be financially comforatble and I'd like them to meet someone who loves them for who they are, is kind and can compliment them as individuals. I'd like them to have children and know the joy that being a mother brings. (that won't be a possibility for DD1 so I'll substitute that wish for one where she can live independantly or semi-indepenently) I'd like them to see the world and live it to the full. I hope along the way they may do something that will touch peoples lives in some way. I hope that they and those they love stay healthy and live a long and happy life.

comixminx · 29/03/2011 22:44

I hope that like me she can work somewhere at a challenging yet do-able job she enjoys and is well rewarded for, with colleagues she can like and respect; I hope also that she is able to take it as normality rather than (as I do) something to be massively grateful for.

JemAndTheHolograms · 29/03/2011 23:26

I want my dds to be happy and healthy. Whether the are bi, gay or straight. Whether they get married, co-habit, stay single, become mothers or remain childless. Whether they become scientists or cleaners, prime minister or sales assistant. I want them to feel their own self worth, to know they are important people who deserve the best from everything. For them to live in a world without sexual violence, without female oppression.

hmc · 29/03/2011 23:59

No saccharine from me.

Basically I'd like her to be stratospherically successful - I want her to do better than her peers so that everybody who has underestimated her(teachers mostly) due to her dyslexia, do a massive double take and wonder how and why they didn't see it

Tortington · 30/03/2011 00:06

my daughter is fabulous. i couldn't want or hope for anything more than she already is.

Parly · 30/03/2011 00:58

I want her to be just the same as she is now. :)

JuicyLucy10 · 30/03/2011 09:12

Happy is the grand some of all the factors in her life. I hope she is happy in everything she does and that happen to her.

I hope she is able to treat everyone with respect and cause no-one hurt.

Skifit · 30/03/2011 09:21

I want my daughter who is 20 yrs to be really happy. To find a boyfriend/partner who treats her well and doesnt cheat on her, like the last 3 !!!
To find a job she enjoys, and to get through her nursing training so she has a qualification under her belt. At the end of the day to earn a good salary and to know she is appreciated in her work..
To be healthy and well, and have to have lots of confidence.
To get on with her older brother.

makemineapinot · 30/03/2011 10:15

I truly hope she never ever ever has to deal with the CSA!! Sad

That she (and my ds) grow up to be happy, healthy and caring individuals with teh confidence to say no and walk away when they need to - and also to stay and say yes when they need to. To believe in themselves and never to let anyone put them down. To not be hurt by anyone or to hurt anyone - find a job/career to give fulfilment and to find an adoring and respctful partner in life. Plus all the other lovely things other people have said on here!!

amidaiwish · 30/03/2011 10:45

d'you know, this thread has really made me appreciate my own parents
Dad always wanted us to be financially independent and secure. I am one of 4 daughters, we all have our own issues (don't we all) but overall I think we are secure, confident and assured.

candleshoe · 30/03/2011 11:02

I hope the media images of women do not lead to her viewing herself as in adequate, ugly or fat.

I hope the sexualisation of society doesn't lead her into the dangerous game of using her sexuality to wield power or control over others and thinking that it is normal to do so.

I hope she achieves in her career and gets to be a mummmy one day.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 30/03/2011 11:12

Pretty much the same as every one else here. Additionally I don't ever want my DD to lose her quirky way of looking at the world. She should retain her curiosity and compassion.
I want her to be happy, that is the main thing, whatever, whoever, wherever she finds it, happiness is what I want most of all for her.

missorinoco · 30/03/2011 11:14

I would like my daughter to be happy and fulfilled.

MissingMySleep · 30/03/2011 12:04

that she loves herself as much as I love her

OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias · 30/03/2011 13:05

My grandmother and mother gave me the gift of a world that was more fair, more equal and more welcoming for women than the world they were born into. I want to give the same gift to my daughter.

Marne · 30/03/2011 13:39

Wishes for my daughters:

My only wishes are that my daughters can live independantly, be accepted in society, to be safe, to be respected by others, to be healthy (physicly and mentaly), to be proud of who they are and to educate others about Autism so people learn to accept them for who they are. I wan't my girls to be happy.

benjysmama · 30/03/2011 13:47

My dream for my daughter is to grow up to be a happy, healthy confident women in a world where she can achieve anything she desires!

charitygirl · 30/03/2011 13:59

I hope she never gives an abusive man a second chance. I hope she's never in the situation to consider it.

Skifit · 30/03/2011 14:55

Well said ,here here here charity girl.. same for my DD.