Child's Eyes - The Light We Created

No longer in the series but still available

Child's Eyes - The Light We Created, Ed Rivera shares a deeply personal memoir about fatherhood, healing, and raising children while overcoming the effects of a trauma-filled childhood. This powerful installment in the Child’s Eyes series moves beyond survival and into intentional parenting, family growth, and emotional restoration. The Light We Created is a 7 chapter book with each chapter dedicated to each of Ed's children. These moments won't be forgotten.

Through heartfelt memories — bedtime songs made up in the dark, long car rides filled with music, baseball games, bowling nights, weddings, road trips, and the birth of grandchildren — Rivera reflects on the everyday moments that became life-defining milestones.

This is not a story of perfect parenting. There were disagreements. Distance. Growing pains. But there was also forgiveness. Presence. Loyalty. And love that chose to stay.

As his children grew, so did he.

From teaching lessons about responsibility and manhood…To dancing with his daughter at her wedding with trembling hands…To watching his children become parents themselves…

This memoir about fatherhood and breaking generational trauma is about choosing to show up — again and again — even when you didn’t have that example yourself.

If you have ever tried to become better than what you came from…If you have ever loved your children in ways you were not loved…If you believe family is built through commitment, not perfection…

Then this story will feel like home.

The Light We Created is an emotional memoir about parenting, resilience, and creating light where darkness once lived.

Because sometimes the greatest legacy we leave behind…Is the light we choose to create.