Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
Image Credit: MomBlogMagazine.com Latina Bloggers Connect is challenging Latina bloggers to write their story, to tell the world why they started blogging and in the process, have the chance to win a ticket to one of the most important blogging conferences around. It might not be on the radar for every blogger out there, [...]
For mixed families, one of the most important and confusing discussions in parenting often concerns identity. Mixed, multiracial, multiethnic individuals often have a difficult course set ahead of them in a country ruled by racial categories. Where does one stand when they don’t identify in only one way? When none of the check boxes sum [...]
{We’ve selected a winner! - Hemos seleccionado una ganadora!} Si antes no era un fan de Kmart, es posible que eres ahora! Recientemente, Kmart lanzó una nueva iniciativa que atrae a las madres latinas. Madres y Comadres es una campaña que se conecta las madres latinas en una manera más profunda. La iniciativa de Kmart en YouTube es muy divertido y tiene muchas capas de utilidad para las madres, incluyendo las conversaciones con Latinas reales acerca de los desafíos de [...]
A poetic introduction… I am from distant travels, hometown exploration and backyard adventures. I am from sweet, homemade treats and flowery bouquets, from captured images and constant motion. I am from the mobile suburbs…impoverished, uneducated, but bright with sunny hope and 1st chances. I am from the Lily, the strong, spiritual mother, the flower [...]
Special Needs & Stereotyping Children of Color … Sadder still, is the fact that this practice of generalizing children of color as having “attitude problems” or being “troubled” isn’t only related to special needs. There is an abundance of stereotyping going on in the public education system…all of which ingrains this message to brown kids…”you are [...]
Racial Identity: When ‘White’ Doesn’t Quite Fit Can white people call themselves ‘mixed’? Can they see themselves as something other than white, if they appear visually white? Sometimes, I don’t know. All my childhood, I struggled with that label…the label of being white, but not feeling white, and not being accepted by “whites”. To me, [...]
Image Credit: Flickr / opensourceway Tantas veces, parece que estamos en una carrera para salir adelante y no nos detenemos a pensar en la gente que está a nuestro lado. Estamos tratando detener éxito, para hacer una diferencia en nuestras vidas, pero muchas veces nos olvidamos que muchas de las personas que nos rodean también están tratando de mejorar sus vidas. Ha habido muchas conversaciones recientemente sobre los latinos que actúan como los [...]
This past week, I was given the opportunity to celebrate with coupons for some of the new 20 oz drinks from Tampico. Funny story…lol…we don’t have these in the Midwest area where I live. To repay the free coupons and to appease the hubby, who was expecting a Tampico fiesta, I decided to [...]
So, what is a permalink? The short and simple answer: A permalink is the direct url to a specific post on your website or blog. This is different from your main url http://www.biculturalmom.com/. Example: A permalink can come in many different formats. Here are some of the most common… Post Numeral Order (WP default): [...]
Addressing White Privilege: Talking To Your Kids About Race This article is the second in a series about white privilege. Follow me as I discuss my understandings of white privilege and how we can move beyond it towards embracing awareness. Read the first article in this series. Often times as parents, we’re taught that there is [...]
A New Biracial Spider-Man! Ok, there’s been quite a buzz lately about the new Spider-man and some are excited, but many are wondering, why didn’t Marvel just create a new Black super hero or a Latino super hero, and why mixed? Why Spider-man? For me, it’s pretty obvious, and it’s not all about marketing, although I’m sure that factored [...]
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