Tag Archives: Parenting

French Kids Don’t Get ADHD? Really?

Posted on 20 May, 2013 by Ms. Meltingpot | Permalink 6

Hi Meltingpot Readers, As if we didn’t already gnash our teeth over the fact that French women don’t get fat even though they eat cheese and French children [..]

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Teaching My Mixie Son “How to Be Black” with Baratunde Thurston

Posted on 21 April, 2013 by Ms. Meltingpot | Permalink Comments Off

Hi Meltingpot Readers, Parenting is hard. Can we all just admit that? If only our kids were just mini replicas of ourselves, perhaps we’d be better prepared to [..]

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Tween and Toddler Temper Tantrums? Just Say No!

Posted on 17 April, 2013 by Ms. Meltingpot | Permalink 4

Hi Meltingpot Readers, So, a couple of weeks ago there was an opinion piece written in the New York Times by a childless man who had some choice [..]

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My Kids are Food Snobs. Hooray!

Posted on 26 March, 2013 by Ms. Meltingpot | Permalink 4

Hi Meltingpot Readers, This past weekend el esposo and I drove the boys down to North Carolina to stay with my parents for spring break. Granted it snowed [..]

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When Spanking Your Children Becomes a Fight Between Black and White

Posted on 20 March, 2013 by Ms. Meltingpot | Permalink 11

Hi Meltingpot Readers, In all my years thinking and writing about the clashes that can occur in interracial/multicultural relationships, the debate over spanking was never one of them. [..]

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My Babies are in the World

Posted on 18 March, 2013 by Ms. Meltingpot | Permalink Comments Off

Hi Meltingpot Readers, So, babygirl went to her first day of daycare today. I cried. She didn’t. She was so excited to play with little people in a [..]

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Poor White People: Where Are They?

Posted on 12 March, 2013 by Ms. Meltingpot | Permalink 9

Hi Meltingpot Readers, So, the other day my older son made a comment along the lines of, ‘Well, all the poor neighborhoods are Black neighborhoods.” I can’t even [..]

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The Real Harlem Shake: Thank You Melissa-Harris Perry

Posted on 6 March, 2013 by Ms. Meltingpot | Permalink Comments Off

Hi Meltingpot Readers, When I recently heard about the Harlem Shake, I immediately bristled at the name when all I saw on YouTube were White people twitching and [..]

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