Category: Parenting and Family
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Do We Have to Look Abroad to find the G.O.A.T of Mothers?
Hello Meltingpot Readers, In honor of Mother’s Day this coming Sunday, I’m re-posting this article I wrote back in 2012 regarding the competitive nature of mothering. At the time it seemed like everyone wanted to pit mothers against each other based on their life choices and parenting decisions. Guess what, not much has changed. So,…
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Transracial Adoption on Trial
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Update: While this story doesn’t shed any new light on the facts of this horrific story, Dr. Stacy Patton explains very clearly in the Washington Post how racism could be partly to blame for the death of the Hart children. It’s not necessarily the racism of the white mothers, but the racism…
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White Moms, Black Children and a Mysterious Death
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Has anyone else been following this bizarre story about the two white adoptive moms who were found dead at the bottom of a cliff with three of their adopted Black children in their car? There are rumors circulating that this was a suicide/murder following an investigation of child abuse, but nothing has…
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Six Reasons Why Mattel Has Made Me Rethink My Barbie Ban
ADIOS BARBIE Let’s just put it out there. Barbie used to be my nemesis. As a child, I found her thin, plastic limbs too angular to play with. She seemed cold and unfeeling, unlike my menagerie of soft, squishy, baby dolls and furry stuffed animals. I wanted nothing to do with Barbie or her dream…
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Ms. Meltingpot’s 5 Favorite Parenting Blogs That Aren’t Written by White Women
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Last week, The Washington Post published an article lamenting the death of the gritty, realistic mommy blogs and the rise of the product sponsored, immaculate world of Instagram motherhood. If 2017 was the year of “fake news,” it apparently was also the year of “fake motherhood,” where all the mommies on the…
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Is Calling an Asian Woman a ‘Tiger Mom’ Racist?
Hi Meltingpot Readers, I’d like you to weigh in on this for me. An Asian friend of mine recently had an incident at work where she made a comment about some trouble her children were having at summer camp and a White co-worker called her a “Tiger Mother” as a joke. My friend was furious…
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Same Family, Different Colors: A Personal Story
Hi Meltingpot Readers, If you have the time, please pop over to Newsworks.org to read my latest parenting column on what it means to be a member of a family with many colors. I will continue to blog over there on Newsworks about these issues in 2016, in anticipation of my new book coming out…
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Dear Black People: An Open Letter to the Black Families on Philly’s Main Line
Dear Black People on the Main Line, No, not all the Black people. I’m sure some of you are super happy there and if you are, please feel free to completely disregard everything I’m about to say. I’m actually talking to the Friday family that was profiled in the depressing and disheartening story in the…
