Simon remembered many of the affirmations she’d used with Kennedy when she was a child. Why don’t “we” go back and revisit that.’” I don’t know if that rhymes as well as it could. “All I have to do is say, ‘You know what, baby, I think you’re missing a period there. “I say this often - it’s very easy for me to become a partner to Jazmyn Simon because she’s a wonderful writer,” Hill says. ‘This what we’re doing, so here we go.’”īoth Hill and Simon laugh - “That’s exactly what he said,” she adds - before he continues. For myself, I said, ‘OK,’ and went along for the ride. “But knowing Jazmyn, it wasn’t surprising to me, because when she sets her mind to do something, she gets it done. “I probably was in shock at the audacity of the statement,” he says. Hill, who currently stars on “The Wonder Years” and previously enjoyed long runs on “The West Wing” and “Psyche,” says he’s used to his wife coming up with an idea and jumping into action. The book, “Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day,” is out now with words by Simon and Hill and illustrations by Shamar Knight-Justice. “I ran to our junk drawer and I took out - and I’m not joking - I took out a yellow sticky notepad and a pen and I said ‘Let’s write a book.’ “So I said, ‘We need to write a book to remind kids that they are the best of themselves and not the worst that they see on TV,” Simon says. It’s a two-sided coin and I didn’t want them to think that that was them. For young white people, you saw a white man killing a Black person on TV. “For young Black people, you saw George Floyd getting murdered.
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“I turned to Dulé and said, ‘I don’t want people to see the worst of themselves when they see TV and believe that’s who they are,’” Simon says. Simon realized that even when kids seem outwardly fine, they might not be. “She said, ‘I’m fine,’ and her dad said, ‘Well, fine’s not a feeling, so how are you feeling?’ She burst into tears and we have this really emotional conversation.” “So one, let’s cut off the TV off and two, let’s ask Kennedy how she’s feeling about everything,” she continues. Our son was in my lap and I thought, ‘He can’t really articulate his thoughts yet, I wonder what he’s thinking by seeing this.’
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“We were in a really dark place in our world and in our country,” says Simon, who is best known for her work on TV series such as “Ballers,” “Psych,” and “Raising Dion.” “It came to watching George Floyd get murdered over and over on TV. Simon was now married to fellow actor Dulé Hill, who had adopted Kennedy, 15 at that time, and together they had 1-year-old son Levi. “And so every single day, before she got out of my car at school, we would do this set of affirmations.”Ī decade later in the tumultuous summer of 2020, the pandemic and protests for racial justice were inescapable. “I thought, ‘Well, this seems like it would be great for a young woman to know all the wonderful things about herself. When her daughter Kennedy was young, Jazmyn Simon would say affirmations with the child each day in hopes it would help develop her confidence and self-esteem.
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