by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul
Let’s say you and your young child decide to go on a picnic at a park that happens to be within walking distance from where you live. You carefully pack up all of the necessary items that you require for your outing and […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Liza Talusan
My children seem to have a knack for asking me really deep, thought-provoking questions at the most inconvenient times. Usually this is when we are racing out the door, late for school/work/day care. This time, it happened on the way to driving my sister, a kulingtan musician, to teach at […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Matt Lyons writes: “My wife and I thought we should submit this pic of our daughter Victoria. She fell asleep practicing writing her name. Too cute.”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul
On numerous occasions in the past, I’ve been fairly unsuccessful in trying to convey how many times I’ve felt that the messages and attitudes perpetuated by our society about adoption often leads me to feel that I am reduced down to nothing more than […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Liza Talusan
I guess I never really thought of myself as an anti-racist parent, but rather an educator about race and culture. As the Director of Intercultural Affairs at a small Catholic college in Massachusetts, much of my focus has been on raising awareness about the complexity of race, culture, power and […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Deesha Philyaw
Like a lot of Gen-Xers, I lived and breathed Sesame Street back in the day. By first grade, I’d been identified by my school as “a smart kid,” and adult friends of the family regularly asked me, probably rhetorically, “How’d you get so smart?” I had a proud […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Kathleen writes: “This is Adam James An Fountain, born in Vinh Long, Vietnam; placed in my arms September 10, 2007.”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please include a caption we can use, and let […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Meera Bowman-Johnson, originally published at Not the Nanny

My mother always told me not to stare, but I soon realized that’s not always possible. So I decided that at the very least, if one must silently judge another, it absolutely should not be done blatantly. And never, ever, with one’s mouth hanging […]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I hope my question is appropriate in this forum, as it is not directly related to parenting. It does seem relevant, though, since learning to dealing with my own white privilege and racism is a huge part of trying to raise anti-racist white children.
I am wondering about the etiquette of calling myself […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula
Perhaps it’s just me - but as a parent of a biracial daughter and an Asian son - it’s far from my dream as their mother to have either of them enter into their adulthood thinking, believing, announcing and celebrating that they are white (or have our daughter claiming a white-only […]