Category: Parenting and Family
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#FlashbackFriday: That Time I Bought a Vitamix
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I’ve been blogging for more than a decade, which means not only do I have a lot of content stored up, it means I have a digital scrapbook chronicling some of the most important moments of my life. Buying a Vitamix wasn’t exactly one of those moments, but at the time, it…
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Being the Black Body in a White Family
Hola Meltingpot Readers, I’m coming at you live and in-person from the sunny south of Spain. It is absolutely gorgeous here – clear blue skies, radiant sun, palm trees, flowers flaunting every color from the deepest purple to the sharpest pinks. We’re currently staying with el esposo’s family and they live in a beautiful home…
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My Failed Experiment with Multigenerational Living
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I owe you all an apology. The blog went dormant last week because I just could not find the time to sit for even one minute to post anything. Not even a mea culpa. As I mentioned in a previous post, we sold our home and had to move rather quickly. So…
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MAMP Podcast Ep. #12:Parenting Healthy Mixed-Race Kids
Hello Meltingpot Readers, On episode 12 of My American Meltingpot, we’re having a conversation about how to raise healthy Mixed-Race children. That is, how do we make sure our children who are more than one race, and possibly more than one culture as well, grow up feeling confident with their sense of identity? How do…
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The Secret to A Long-Lasting Marriage? Finding Your Do-or-Die Tribe
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Today el esposo and I are celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary! Yep, twenty years. We got married in 1999 and three kids, four houses, one dog and a cat later, we’re still together. But it hasn’t been easy. Like most things that require a lifelong commitment, staying married requires hard emotional work,…
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4 Great Parenting Blogs Celebrating Multicultural Motherhood
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Even though it seems like we are now in the age of Instagram, I still enjoy and appreciate the information and community I find on blogs. Between you and me, I don’t want to read an entire essay on Instagram. I still think of blogs as reliable and relatable sources of information.…
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Five Snarky-Ass Things to Tell Your Black and Brown Kids Post College Cheating Scandal
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I am going to assume that by this time, you’ve all heard about Operation Varsity Blues, aka, the nation’s largest college cheating scandal. If by chance this incredibly tacky display of wealth and privilege has not yet crossed your social media feed, check out this article from the New York Times to…
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Happy New Year, Meltingpot Community!
Dear Meltingpot Community, I’m going to be honest. I’ve been so caught up in getting my Kickstarter campaign funded in the last waning hours of 2018, I haven’t spent that much time planing for 2019. That’s not how I wanted to start the new year, but that’s something I know I have to work on.…
