Comments on: 2014 KIDS COUNT finds some gains for 鶹ý’s children /news/2014/07/22/2014-kids-count-finds-some-gains-for-hawaiis-children/ News from the University of Hawaii Fri, 29 Oct 2021 01:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Renee Creer /news/2014/07/22/2014-kids-count-finds-some-gains-for-hawaiis-children/#comment-145667 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:42:11 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=26287#comment-145667 In reply to TE. Uʻilani Kūhaulua.

I am the tutu to one 2 year old baby boy, who God took this year to be a angel with him in heaven. It is the children that are our mot treasure. Not just for Hawaii but for mankind. If God has graced you with so many you are blessed. Continued love and grace and the unconditional love that God wants us to show to all. Blessings always from Tutu to another, in God’s love,Renee

]]> By: TE. Uʻilani Kūhaulua /news/2014/07/22/2014-kids-count-finds-some-gains-for-hawaiis-children/#comment-145570 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:26:43 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=26287#comment-145570 I am a Tūtū of 15. Mother of 9. Wife of 1. All the while I am a Kumu ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. For the hundreds of keiki i have been blessed with in my diverse career, I have always kept a constant: Love Kekahi i kekahi . Walk the walk not talk out of two sides of my mouth.
In retrospect, I would not have replaced any of my three decades with elementary, preschool and toddler kamaliʻi for anything. If anything, they taught me about unconditional love and acceptance, as Godʻs love is. They never questioned my ethnicity nor where I received my degree. As I earned their acceptance, I gained friends, nieces, nephews, students, grandchildren, admirers, copy-cats, escorts, body-guards, baby-sitters(for my grandchildren), and jr. physical therapists.
I am now handicapped and yet, nonjudgmental, caring, forgiving, honest, sincere little people still welcome me so genuinely that I cry when I see adults hurt them by favoritism, abuse, neglect, avoidance, rejection, ignorance or just plain meanness.
Though I am 49 and attending college late in life, I am immovable in my quest to embrace Godʻs precious keiki with all the kindness, love, nurturing, foundational skills, confidence, and fortitude I possibly can. I believe this thereby will enable them to enter into school, education and independence with an attitude of eagerness, anticipation, confidence, and fulfillment.
Please please please continue to study and care about our kamaliʻi in Hawaiʻi. They are special and unique individually.
If for not any other reason, do it for their future in hope of a safe and blessed tomorrow where they will be proud to stay here in Hawaiʻi and pass the same attitude and hope and love forward.

Mahalo a nui loa.. Tūtū Māmā (TE. Y. Kūhaulua),
AKA Uʻilanimakamaekapolipumehana

Anahola, Kauaʻi Iesū pū, Aloha.

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