Tag: Parenting
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7 Multicultural Mamas Giving Me Life on Instagram
Hello Meltingpot Community, Mother’s Day is less than a week away and like all things during a global pandemic, celebrations probably aren’t going to look like Mother’s Day past. No Sunday church services. No champagne brunches. No taking mom shopping to pick out her gift. Of course that doesn’t mean there still aren’t plenty of…
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MAMP Podcast Ep#33:How to be a Meltingpot Mom During a Global Pandemic
Episode 33 is a Meltingpot Minute episode where I’m sharing some tips and suggestions on how to be a Meltingpot Mom during a global pandemic. Think of this a multicultural resource guide for parenting during the Corona crisis. As mothers during these unprecedented times of social isolation, lockdown, fear and homeschooling(!!!), we are tasked with…
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Why St. Augustine, Florida is the Perfect Kinky Gazpacho Family Getaway
Hello Dear Readers, For the first time ever, I’m sending two of my three children away for summer camp. Yes, son #1 and son #2 are going to turn 17 and 14 this summer, but for reasons both cultural and financial, we’ve never sent them away for camp. But this year, son #1 is going…
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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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Colorism in the Mixed-Race Family
Hello Meltingpot Readers, When you think of colorism, what’s the first community you think of? Is it the African-American community, with their #teamlightskin #teamdarkskin hashtags? Is it the the Latinx community, considering baseball legend Sammy Sosa and hip hop star Amara La Negra keep making colorism headlines? Maybe when you think about colorism, your mind…
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#FridayFavorites: Books and Black Hair Products
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Now that I’m back to blogging after an, ahem, brief time away, I’ve decided to add some new features to the blog. One of these new features is a weekly post that will highlight whatever person, place or thing I’m currently crushing on. It could be a book, or a restaurant or…
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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…
