Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
Favorite Multicultural Resources This is a Multicultural Mondays post! To join in, CLICK HERE for details and come back to this post to add your link! :) I’m a little late posting this because the weekend ran over into my week…and then my internet was down all day today (sorry guys!), but I’m super excited to share some of my favorite [...]
ATTEND ‘MY DREAM SPEAKS’ BENEFIT IN NYC! Head over to the Helen Mills Event Space & Theater in New York City this Wednesday, April 18th for a very special evening celebrating language education through fashion, art, and music! The evening, hosted by CNN’s Zoraida Sambolin features performance by internationally celebrated Les Nubians and a presentation by Mataano (who [...]
Raising Confident 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 [...]
Multiculturals & Code-Switching Have you ever noticed that you have one set of verbal and non-verbal attributes in one conversation and then participate differently in the next? Our accents may change, our expressions, body language and even our whole attitudes can fluctuate between communities. Is this wrong? Does it mean we’re being “fake”? Or is [...]
The ‘Good’ & ‘Bad’ of Interracial Relationships One of the disadvantages of being an interracial couple is the fact that you have to bite your tongue so often in order to get by unscathed. There is so much more that can be said on this blog, but I can’t help feel like I’m always holding back on [...]
This week, for Multicultural Monday, I’m continuing my reading from Homa Sabet Tavangar’s Growing Up Global. This week’s chapter was about greetings and how important they are for forming friendships that can allow us to see others as individuals, rather than within a narrow box of traits. There are many interesting thoughts and ideas [...]
Image via growingupglobal.net It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a Multicultural Mondays post. Being sick does that to you. But I’m starting to feel better now and I’m actually glad that I had those two weeks to give my brain a little rest and think about how I wanted [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Multicultural Familia™ Launches New Deals Site for Multicultural Families Sioux Falls, SD – January 30th, 2012 – Multicultural Familia™ has launched a new deals site for multicultural families. The aim of the site is to highlight businesses and organizations that offer products and services that meet the needs of a growing online multicultural [...]
This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino. Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Ruby is a wife and mother to 2 little ones. She is the Blogger at growingupblackxican.com, where she blogs about raising her kids to be proud of their 2 cultures – Black and Mexican. Her family [...]
This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino. Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A I’m very excited to share with you, half of my interview with Dash Harris, a journalist in NYC who is enthralled in her own personal and professional exploration of Latino identity. [...]
What is Bicultural Identity? I’ve had quite a few individuals approach me and tell me that they were pleasantly surprised to realize that they were bicultural. I’m always a bit saddened, but mostly glad, to hear this announcement. On one end, I’m pleased that readers are looking at my stories here and identifying with with [...]
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