{"id":313637,"date":"2024-06-12T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=313637"},"modified":"2024-06-11T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:40:12","slug":"toddler-mom-masters-hood-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/toddler-mom-masters-hood-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Toddler helps mom with master’s hood at graduation: ‘A moment I will never forget’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Natasha S. Alford graduated from the Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs with a master’s degree in public policy and a certificate in urban policy last month, and the accomplishment was made all the more special because she received her master’s hood from her three-year-old son \u2014 a moment that has now gone viral.<\/p>\n

Alford posted the video to TikTok, showing the moment she approached the podium with her young son Julian in tow. Amaney A. Jamal, Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, then helped Julian place the hood over his mother.<\/p>\n

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@natashasalford<\/a> When I took my 3-year-old son Julian onstage to see my master\u2019s hooding, I did not realize Dean Jamal would ask if he wanted to help hood me. Of course everything I\u2019ve been holding came to the surface because doing graduate school as a mother to a young child was a different kind of experience. When I was not studying, I was running back to him to play trucks and build towers with blocks. His father had to constantly push me to get on to class and not worry because all would be fine, and he was right. This was truly the best year for our family. Julian loved Princeton \ud83e\udde1\ud83d\udda4, made many new tiger \ud83d\udc2f cub friends and now has SPIA aunties and uncles around the world. \u263a\ufe0f\ud83c\udf0d Thank you Dean Jamal for the tradition of letting parents bring their children to celebrate this milestone. It\u2019s a moment I will never forget and a moment I pray he looks to whenever he needs it. This is for you my dear son\u2014 you can achieve whatever has been placed in your heart and mind because greatness is already within you! \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc99 #Legacy<\/a> #SPIAProud2024<\/a> #Commencement<\/a> #Graduation<\/a> #princeton<\/a> #SPIA<\/a> #DoubleIvy<\/a> #Degree3<\/a> #motherhood<\/a> #parenting<\/a> #mywhy<\/a> #lupuswarrior<\/a> \u266c original sound – Natasha S. Alford<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n