The most blatantly racist people I have personally known are white parents who adopted black children. Learn more about what I mean.… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Memoir
What They Didn’t Teach us in Adoption Classes about Raising Black children
In preparation for adoption, we took multiple classes through our agency. We learned everything from general care of children (the easy part) to honoring our children’s cultures and how to work through the emotional needs of children who join a family through adoption. With regards to adoption of black children by white parents, they warned… Continue Reading
On Parenting and Peeing
Since I began parenting, I have operated under the delusion that I would one day be able to pee without interruption. I figured it would happen around the time all of my kids were in the double-digits. Did you get the word “delusion”? Delusion! Wanting our kids to clearly understand that there are so very… Continue Reading
Nerd v. Soccer: Confessions of a Soccer Mom
I married a nerd. He’s not the Hollywood kind of nerd, clad in black rimmed glasses and slightly less than stylish clothing, occasionally awkward in a hot kind of way and able to morph to perfect beauty with a simple costume change. Think Henry Grubstick from Ugly Betty or Gracie Hart in Miss Congeniality. See… Continue Reading
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