Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
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 Multiracial Kids 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, [...]
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 individuals who identify their lifestyles as being both ‘mixed’ and ‘Latino’. Interviews may include multiracial Latinos, mixed couples and bicultural families who share their stories with you, our readers. We thank you for listening and sharing in their experiences. Read more #MixedVida Spotlights. Share your own [...]
This post is part of a series of interviews with individuals who identify their lifestyles as being both ‘mixed’ and ‘Latino’. Interviews may include multiracial Latinos, mixed couples and bicultural families who share their stories with you, our readers. We thank you for listening and sharing in their experiences. Read more #MixedVida Spotlights. Share your own [...]
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 [...]
[Image Credit: CNN.com] 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 [...]
Image: wordle.net 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 that [...]
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