Tag: Multicultural Families
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“I Love Lucy” – I Met My BFF in Morocco
In the summer of 1989, I lived in Morocco as an exchange student. I was an AFS student and truly believed that my life would be changed by immersing myself in another culture. And it was. Living in Casablanca with my host family — three brothers and eight sisters ranging in age from 33 to 6 —…
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Mt. Airy, USA Tastes Like the Meltingpot
Last night in my little neighborhood of Mt. Airy, 30 food truck vendors descended on our main commercial corridor for a new annual event called The Night Market. I missed last year’s Night Market because I was busy having a baby, but last night, babygirl, the boys, el esposo and I hit the streets to…
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Picky Eaters Made Not Born
Last night babygirl ate pesto pizza and broccoli for dinner. The night before that she ate a Spanish stew of chickpeas garbanzo beans, spinach and chorizo. Why did I give her such bizarre meals? Because that’s what we were eating and babygirl doesn’t do baby food. She turns her one-year-old nose up at pureed food…
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Speaking in Tongues:The Best Way to Raise Bilingual Children
Hello Meltingpot Community, Imagine this scene, dear readers. Some friends of ours recently came to visit. A family of four, the parents are both ethnically Chinese. The wife was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States with her family as a young girl. We met in New York City when we worked…
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“The Tooth Fairy Left Me a Euro:” The Benefits of Bicultural Family Life
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I have a confession to make. The Tooth Fairy in our Kinky Gazpacho household is a bit absentminded. Sometimes she forgets to come. There have been occasions when it has taken the Tooth Fairy four nights before she showed up to pick up a precious tooth. Lucky for el esposo and I, our children…
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Colorful Baby Names, from the Pages of a Book
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Recently I saw an article on Parents.com that said the latest trend in baby naming was to name your kid after a fictional literary and/or cinematic character. Apparently it’s all the rage these days. Considering I named my own babygirl after a fictional nubian princess, I could only agree, although I felt a little…
