Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
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 [...]
I just had to share this guest post from Michelle at Balancing Jane on Multicultural Familia. Please do stop by and read it, if you haven’t already. Everything I feel about this campaign is laid out so well in her arguments. Excellent piece! Click the link below to continue to the article. Read on MulticulturalFamilia.com » [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Multiracial Donors Needed! I have a biracial daughter and like many of you, I worry about her future everyday. I worry about her education, about how she’ll overcome other people’s expectations and about her success in a world that doesn’t quite understand what it means to be ‘mixed’. A new worry has come to [...]
Today I wanted to share a podcast that my husband and I did, mostly about raising bilingual / bicultural kids and also about a few other interesting topics. Listen below: Listen to internet radio with ChantillyPatino on Blog Talk Radio. One of the most important considerations for parents raising biracial children, and especially for [...]
Monica Almeida/The New York Times “Believe me, I am not a confused person. I know who I am, but I don’t necessarily fit the categories well,” said Erica Lubliner, a medical school graduate of Mexican and Jewish heritage. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ A friend sent me this great article from the New York Times about how 1/3 of [...]
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 #MixedVida Bio & Interview Ana María Gómez and her husband, Richard, have two boys and her lovely step-daughter. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and raised in Venezuela. Ana graduated from Universidad [...]
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 Tara Villanueva is of Puerto-Rican, Hawaiian, and Filipina heritage. She is a singer-songwriter, polynesian dancer and graphic designer in Washington, D.C., where she lives with her partner, Dan, and son, Kai. [...]
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 [...]
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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