Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
Bicultural Parenting: Celebrating Small Victories Today I’m sharing a guest post I wrote that was previously published on SpanglishBaby.com in July 2011. Our families may not be perfect, but there are many small victories that are worth celebrating! :) Once we were married, my husband and I had put the worst behind us. Our families [...]
Proud of My Country, Celebrating My President It’s taken me a while to get my thoughts out, and not for a lack of trying, but I haven’t had many moments of free time recently. Tuesday evening my family and I went out to vote…we felt a little uneasy, but mostly hopeful that our country [...]
Parenting Awareness: ‘Race’ Talk #2 Some of you might remember not long ago that I wrote the first in a series of ‘race talks’ with my daughter about skin color. Read it here » Parenting Awareness: ‘Race’ Talk #1 So today, my daughter prompted a second discussion about race…this one is slightly different than the original skin [...]
Parenting Bilingual Niños Being the parent of a bilingual child isn’t always easy…especially when you’re not fluent. I’ve been teaching my daughter Spanish since birth…a few words here and there, never speaking in full conversations because I have absolutely no idea what a fluent Spanish speaking mother would say to her child. I wish I was [...]
Protecting Our Kids from Becoming the Next Trayvon Martin I was reading Racism Review earlier this week and came across a really interesting article about how we put limits on our children in order to protect them. Maybe we don’t let them go out past 9pm or pre-approve their friends, but what about all of [...]
Mixed Identity & Latinos There have been a lot of interesting posts in the news and in the blog world lately. Many that promote the celebration of mixed heritage and some that make us pause to consider, “What does it mean to be mixed?” This isn’t an easy question to answer and I can imagine [...]
Image Pew Social Trends Mixed Latinos & Multiracial Identity Most times, Americans don’t think of Latinos as being mixed or multicultural, but in reality Latinos are leaders of multiculturalism and mixed families. Start off with the fact that most Latinos come from a combination of European and Native ancestry, a mixing that began with the [...]
I’m White, My Daughter is Latina, and I Buy Black Dolls I have to admit, when I was a kid I probably never thought about buying a Black doll. I don’t recall if I’d ever even seen one as a child, but I can tell you that it’s a very important subject for me now. [...]
Raising Multiracial Children Like most parents, I’ve thought a lot about my daughter’s future. I have considered race, culture, language, religion and so many other factors that will become a part of her developing identity. Being the mother of a biracial child, it’s been a growing concern for me. While our nation is increasingly diverse, [...]
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