The formerDestiny’s Childmember hosted the nonprofit’s 9th annual celebration withHuggieson Wednesday — which celebrated their largest donation to date, of over three million diapers and five million wipes — where she could be seen happily holding babies from the program and spending time with their mothers.
“This is my favorite part,” Rowland, 38, told PEOPLE at the event. “You shouldn’t make it feel like a charity. I just want to chill today. I just want to be able to move in my clothes and if I need to crawl with kids, then I do that. I know what it’s like to be a mom, so this is my favorite.”
“Oh my gosh, my son keeps asking me for a sibling,” she revealed. “But it’s just not [the] right timing.”
Rowland added that Titan is “very specific” in his request, too, as he “doesn’t know God actually has his hand in that kind of stuff.”
“He’s like, ‘We’regoing to have a brother, Mom,’ ” she said. “I said, ‘Well, he won’t be my brother — he’ll be my son — [and] what if it’s a girl?’ ” — and to that, Titan’s response was, ” ‘No, it’s not a girl, it’s a brother.’ ”
Kelly Rowland and son Titan.Jesse Grant/Getty
Titan is currently in school and a “very smart kid” who’s “way smarter than” his mom, jokes the singer and author with a laugh. “I’m so happy [about] that because I prayed for it — smarter than me to the point where he’ll be speaking Spanish to his friends or someone that might be passing on the street,” she said. “He’s like, ‘Hola. ¿Como estas?’ I’m like, ‘Dude, we don’t speak to strangers.’ ”
Kelly Rowland.
Something Rowland is hoping Titan also picks up on is her passion for giving back — a trait she said her late mother, Doris, passed down to her.
“We’re starting that now,” she told PEOPLE. “I remember I tried to start it at 3, but it was too young. I’ll break it down for him. This last time I did it, I said, ‘Okay, you’ve got a new, whatever it was, you have to give away one of your toys.’ [He said,] ‘I don’t want to.’ I explained everything to him —how there’s some kids with no toys, and ‘You have three of the same thing.’ ”
“I said, ‘If you can’t share then I have to strongly think about if I’m going to share what I have with you. Mommy works hard … and I’ll give you the things that you need, like your bare necessities, but I chose to buy you a gift. You have to choose to be kind to someone else,’ ” Rowland added. “And so he says, ‘They can have it.’ ”
“I’m a giver — I would give you this shirt off my back, that’s just the kind of person I am,” she continued. “That was my mother. She gave that gift to me. But I don’t expect formy child not to be able to do the same thing. I can’t be given that value and not pass it down. I won’t do that.”
Kelly Rowland.Stefanie Keenan/Getty
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“As soon as we saw the hurricane start, I was like, ‘What are we going to do?’ ” said Rowland. “Kelly [Sawyer Patricof] was like, ‘I’m already on top of it.’ It’s a community of incredible women who genuinely know what it’s like to be a mother, know what it’s like to have a child and know what it’s like for you to want to give the world to your child.”
Kelly Sawyer Patricof, Rachel Bilson, Kelly Rowland and Norah Weinstein.
“We have so many amazing moms that have helped amplify our message,” Sawyer Patricof told PEOPLE. “People [say] all the time, ‘You’re so lucky to have these incredible women involved.’ ”
source: people.com
