A little over two weeks ago, Annika started her first full day of school. It was a day I’ve dreamed of many times. Not that I was looking forward to her growing up and going away from me. I dreamed of the time when she would go to school, I think, more of as a [...]
Categories: Montessori, Uncategorized
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Tags: Annika, Motherhood, School
Today I’ve got a guest post from Jen Marshall Duncan, another white mom with biracial children. She’s a teacher in Iowa. Her blog, Empatheia, is one of my regular reads because she is insightful, articulate and intelligent, a real gem in the blogger world. I came across this “I Don’t See Race” poster on Pinterest [...]
Categories: Blogging, Guest Post, Uncategorized
| Tags: Race, School
So far preschool has been a major hit with only one minor setback. She has been sniffling for the past two weeks with allergies and last week, one morning I woke her up with the question of how well she felt to go to school. Her answer, “I LOVE school! I want to go.” It’s [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, School
I know, I know, I’m so lame for not writing an update on Annika’s first week of preschool. Life has been busy. Good busy. But busy and I have a gazillion blogs posts roiling around in my brain that will in all likelihood, never get written. But I will try. Let me start by telling [...]
Categories: Austin, Failure, Motherhood
| Tags: Annika, School
It seems strange to think that Annika will be starting preschool in August. Yes, we’ve picked a preschool and she’s enrolled. We went with the school that had less diversity. Even though there are no other African American children in the school, we decided that ultimately, the school with the better educational prospects was better [...]
Categories: Life, Motherhood, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Parenting, School
One of the cool things about being the mom of a biracial child is that I feel like I’m bridging a gap. My posts on race are written from the perspective of a white woman in a country that has a history of racial tension. Even though much of the blatant racial tension is gone, [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Life, Motherhood, Parenting, Race, Racism, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Parenting, Race, Racism, School
Brown with a white background makes a nice combination Annika has been making note of her brown skin color lately. And today, in our learning co-op, we had our first Black History lesson. We talked about skin color. I gave them a coloring page of a map of Africa, showing them Nigeria on the map, [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Parenting, Race, Racial Identity
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Books, Inter-racial, Multi-racial, Parenting, Race, School
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, Annika has started pre-school. We got together with a group of friends and put together a Montessori-style learning co-op. We’ll be meeting in our friend’s home twice a week with some other AP kids and mamas. I’m pretty happy and excited about it, especially the Montessori style. Everything I’ve [...]
Categories: Life, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Parenting, School
